team work

Expand the power of your team

Assessments and tools can reframe performance and reignite potential. Find out which one would work best for you below.

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Why assessments?

Every team is made up of unique talents, perspectives, and motivations. Assessments help make those differences visible—and valuable. When leaders understand what drives their people, they can build stronger relationships, improve communication, and create environments where everyone can thrive. We use evidence-based tools like CliftonStrengths, Emergenetics, and Strengths Deployment Inventory to deepen awareness and spark meaningful growth.

Assessment offerings

Understanding motivation, conflict, and relationship dynamics.

Measures the individual’s core motives, how they experience conflict, their strengths, and how strengths can be overdone, limiting interpersonal effectiveness. It helps a team see the varied motives members bring to their work—whether their focus is more people, process, or performance or a blend of these—and how to address conflict by understanding the motives behind behaviors.

Communication, thinking preferences, and team synergy.

Identifies an individual’s preferences in three behavioral attributes (what others’ see) and four thinking attributes (how our brains engage with the world) that emerge from one’s genetic blueprint and life experiences. It gives individuals the knowledge and language to describe how they tend to think and behave and recognize how this contributes to team processes while also seeing how it differs from others’ ways of thinking and behaving. This can help move a team from conflict and frustration with one another to stronger performance as the group learns to engage and leverage one another’s preferences.

Identifying and applying individual strengths for performance improvement.

The assessment measures the individual’s unique talents, natural patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving, and categorizes them into 34 CliftonStrengths theme, organized into four domains. By integrating strengths into team and workplace strategies, organizations can harness their employees' natural talents to drive outcomes.

Stress management, emotional regulation, self-perception, and interpersonal skills.

Emotional Intelligence is a set of emotional and social skills that influence the way we perceive and express ourselves, develop and maintain social relationships, cope with challenges, and use emotional information in an effective and meaningful way. The EQi 2.0 is a self-report assessment that measures five distinct aspects of emotional and social functioning, with 15 subscales that reflect skills critical to workplace success; the report also gives an overall wellbeing indicator. Along with the workshop we offer the option of individual coaching around the information provided in the report.

Understanding and improving persuasion and leadership influence styles.

An assessment instrument designed to understand an individual's preferred style as they influence others. The assessment addresses one’s preferred, secondary, and underutilized influencing styles. [Rationalizing, Asserting, Negotiating, Inspiring, and Bridging] Understand when each influencing style is best used and what the potential pitfalls may be. Improve the ability to connect with others using a variety of influencing styles. Be able to identify others’ preferred style. 

Questions? - Assessments and Tools

Noel Rasor, Assistant Director for Curriculum and Program Quality
noel@ku.edu