Leadership Assessment
Growing leaders requires the right data. Slade & Associates can help you use your current assessments, purchase existing best-in-class leadership assessments or build customizeed assessments.
Leadership Assessment and Leadership Develoment Programs
At Slade & Associates, we recommend starting your leadership development program with targeted leadership assessment. The data and insight from these assessment swill guide your participant’s experiential learning and individual leadership coaching. We can help you select the most powerful assessments, choosing between personality profiles, leadership behavior, leadership style, 360 feedback and assessment centers.
At Slade & Associates, our experts have been trained in industrial/organizaitonal psychology and have developed leadership assessments for Fortune 100 companies. We have global experience, creating measures that validly measure leadership across functions, countries and languages. We can help you identify existing assessments. We can also help you create targeted, customized leadership assessments.
Leadership Assessment and Coaching
You and your Slade & Associates coach will use assessments of your leadership. Often, we will use assessments that have already been completed by you, such as recent performance reviews, 360 surveys, leadership style inventories, personality profiles, and employee survey results for your organization. Additional fee-based assessments may also be used with your consent.
Beyond standardized assessments, it is often useful to assess leader behavior by observing the client in action. During a coaching dialogue, the Slade & Associates coach might use a role play or Slade & Associates leadership simulations. The coach may also ask observe you in action as part of a team meeting or when you are “managing by walking around.”
As the coaching engagement progresses, reassessing leadership behavior can create further data-driven insight. Your Slade & Associates coach may suggest repeating earlier assessments or adding new assessments.
What Our Clients Say…
I had the opportunity to have Dr. Allen Slade as a mentor and professional coach while attending the College of William and Mary. Dr. Slade's coaching sessions were invaluable to my personal and professional journey while at William and Mary. Dr. Slade is thoughtful, intelligent, and able to provide insight and guidance for nearly every situation. Our sessions were one on one and I always left feeling peaceful and re-invigorated about whatever situation was going on in my life. Dr. Slade provided coaching to me on my professional career path, conflict resolution, ways to work effectively in a team, and more. I would highly recommend Dr. Slade for any of your coaching needs.
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Carin Andrews Rhodes
Federal Advisory Associate at KPMG US
Allen's thoughtful approach and insights on leadership helped me to manage change and to grow as a leader. His guidance led me to a deeper level of self-reflection and knowledge. Allen is a professional with utmost integrity and commitment to his clients.
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Mark Begly
Associate Vice President for Development and Campaign Director, The College of William & Mary
Prof. Allen Slade coached me during my MBA coursework at The College of William and Mary. He helped me understand people and my profession better as an international student. Our conversations ranged across various topics, such as IT, Music, Philosophy, and more. He took efforts to connect with me and help me grow. I highly recommend Allen, as a person and as a coach.
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Gaurav Hombali
SharePoint Consultant at LANTek
Prof. Slade's instruction on leadership guided me to defining my personal leadership brand. His program activities immerse you in safe environments, where you can practice, review, and modify your leadership competency.
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Edmund Amoye
Retail Manager, Moët Hennessy USA
I came to Dr. Slade for coaching/mentoring because he was one of the greatest influences in my life. If you are considering procuring his services; I will tell you three things that you will receive. First, he will help you to visualize your goals. Second, he will lead you through a process that allows you to give a voice to your aspirations. Finally, he will help you to see how you can empower yourself through all of the hubris, naysayers and self doubts and arrive at a place that only you can equivocate, which is victory! If you are willing to let it all hang out, you are giving yourself one of the greatest gifts by having “Doc" work with you! Enjoy what will surely be a life changing experience.
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Martin Williams
Operations Manager, Shaw Industries
Dr. Slade was my LEAD guide and mentor during my MBA at the College of William & Mary. I got to learn a lot about active and intentional leadership from Dr. Slade. He made it a point to have a meaningful conversation. Coming from a different country and culture, my interactions with him were very helpful in grooming and enhancing my leadership capabilities and experience into a form relevant to the environment in the US business world. I continue to consciously use the nuggets of active listening and the power of feedback in my current leadership role and reap the benefits.
I would recommend Dr. Slade to anyone who is interested in furthering his/her leadership capabilities and execution via coaching.
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Alap Desai
Department Manager, Snyder's-Lance, Inc.
Dr. Slade is truly an expert in his field. He dedicated his teaching and coaching to integrating his experience in business with contemporary research on leadership to guide young professionals to become leaders.
I benefited from Dr. Slade’s coaching at a pivotal point in my career on three issues: clarity, courage and composure. I gained clarity through to define the nature of my career goals, unclouded by the distractions of daily life. I built courage to follow-through with my goals using tools such as centering in the moment and overcoming self-restricting barriers. Finally, Dr. Slade patiently directed my composure as I battled a major obstacle in my professionalism by helping slow my speech rate when articulating my purpose and passion.
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Arwa Zabarah
Consultant at the World Bank Group
