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With insight and precision, the CPI 260^® assessment reveals individuals’ interpersonal style, values, and motivation—both the strengths and weaknesses that make up their leadership approach and potential. The CPI 260 assessment is expressly designed to appraise individuals as they would be described by objective and knowledgeable others. So it enables you—as executive coach, resource planner/developer, or team builder—to identify leaders, nurture their growth, and ensure the success of the organizations they lead.

• Leadership development—help individuals and organizations identify leadership strengths and development opportunities
• Performance improvement—increase leaders’ self-awareness and help them adjust their behaviors for maximum effectiveness
• Executive coaching—empower leaders to reach their full potential through a structured, consultative approach
• Succession planning—strengthen organizations by building leaders at all levels
• Selection and retention—find the right talent and keep them engaged through a fulfilling career path

Developed and first published in the 1950s, the CPI 260^® assessment is a personality assessment of characteristics that play a part in everyday situations, particularly in the workplace.

The CPI 260 assessment is designed to extend what is already known about an individual. It measures several critical competencies and tendencies, including both favorable and unfavorable characteristics that have an impact on leadership effectiveness and potential. These characteristics are universal—that is, they are independent of an individual’s industry, responsibilities, and the people she or he manages. In combination, they yield a nuanced portrait of the individual’s personality lifestyle in one of four broad categories: implementers, supporters, innovators, and visualizers.

Leaders come in all varieties. The CPI 260 tool enables you and your clients to capitalize on their strengths, target areas for development, and take action to grow their effectiveness and success as leaders.

• Measures responses on 29 different scales and compares them to data on 5,600 managers and executives collected in the Leadership Development Program at the Center for Creative Leadership^® (CCL^®)
• Provides results on 18 different leadership characteristics in five core performance areas: self-management, team building and teamwork, organizational capabilities, problem solving, and sustaining organizational vision
• Yields practical, down-to-earth insights to apply in executive coaching, occupational development, and other business and organizational contexts
• Generates two unique reports—a Client Feedback Report plus a Coaching Report for Leaders—which can function as developmental plans and coaching aids

The CPI 260 instrument is a great tool for identifying leadership styles and capabilities.

Director, Small Business Professional Services Company

With the CPI 260, our supervisors and managers were humbled and then started to reflect. At first they were in denial but then realized that the CPI 260 assessment revealed many things they had been struggling with for years.

Paul Ganalon, Leadership Development, Washington State Department of Transportation

The impact of the CPI 260 has been huge. Being able to introduce leaders to themselves and show them how they are perceived by others has sparked some phenomenal growth.

Paul Polheber, Manager, Learning and Development, Moorehead Communications