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The Leadership Development Series (LDS) is designed to provide organizations with a viable source of information for individual and/or group evaluations to enhance managerial performance. The LDS is unique in that it provides a wide-ranging assessment of the managerial role and the leadership skills that are essential for success in today's competitive business market. The LDS takes approximately 45 minutes to complete and is comprised of 255 items that involve both multiple-choice and ranking scales.

The LDS presents a broad, multi-faceted picture of managerial functioning. Because of its developmental nature, the LDS is particularly well-suited for pre-employment screening, identifying potential managers within an organization, coaching, executive training courses, and management development programs. Composite charts are created to: 1) analyze and compare individual strengths and areas of concern within the leadership categories so appropriate and meaningful training programs can be specifically designed, and 2) chart progress to assess the effectiveness of training programs toward specified goals.

What the LDS Measures

The LDS has three major components. Two (Management Style Inventory and Leadership Potential Scale) examine general "macro-level" aspects of the management role while the Leadership Skills Inventory is comprised of six scales that focus on specific skills critical to managerial effectiveness.

	Management Style Inventory (Analyzes Leadership Type)
	Leadership Potential Scale (Analyzes Leadership Aptitude)
	Leadership Skills Inventory (Analyzes Specific Leadership Skills)
	- Decision-Making
	- Delegating
	- Communicating
	- Listening
	- Managing Time
	- Implementing

The LDS Report

The manager's performance on each aspect of the LDS is charted with a T-score comparison to a normative database of other managers considered effective in respective leadership skills. This is supplemented with a comprehensive narrative interpretation with suggested developmental/enhancement activities based on three categories: Category 1 includes skills that are considered areas of concern and become the focus of staff development and self-improvement training. Category 2 includes skills that meet expectations and are recognized for future self-improvement training. Category 3 includes skills that are considered managerial strengths. Item analysis for each part of the LDS provides a more comprehensive reflection of strengths and areas of concern to enhance staff development training and pre-employment screening.

The LDS is a critical assessment tool for today's organizations that are in need of identification, hiring and maintenance of effective managers.

Leadership Development Series, Management Style Inventory, Leadership Potential Scale, Leadership Skills Inventory, and LDS are copyrights and marks solely owned by Don DeMoulin.