INNOVATE: Future-ready Psychometric Assessment Tools

INNOVATE: Future-ready Psychometric Assessment Tools

Key recommended diagnostic tools to assess innovation readiness

Validated assessments based on research into how to identify alignment in leaders and cultures, and how leaders can lead for innovation and effective change management. The assessments measure the innovation climate in an organization (iCi), along with individual innovation biases (iCLi).

The iCi is also a valuable model for understanding the merging of two different cultures that allows dialogue to create shared understandings.

These assessments enable the opportunity to identify potential gaps and opportunities and improve current systems and come up with new strategies and/or structures for internal implementation.

1. Innovative Change Leader Inventory (iCLi):
Personal Profile

2. Innovation Climate Index (iCi)
Team AND Organizational Reporting. Check your leader’s & organization’s preparedness for innovation.

3. Become an accredited coach.
The Future-Ready Leadership Coaching Program Training course is designed to prepare coaches and leaders for delivering feedback on the Innovation Change Leadership (iCLi) profile measure. This coaching training course is ideal for developing skills for coaching and leading as a coach within the organisation, as well as for independent coaches to use in a commercial coaching context

Relevant reliability and validity data for the iCLi assessment profiling tool

Developing and applying a multidimensional measure of paradoxical innovation leadership orientations:

Presented at the 35th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2019 Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dr Gaia Grant, University of Sydney / Prof Martin Dowson, Excelsia College.

Keywords: Innovation Paradox; Innovation Management and Leadership; Innovation Measurement; Change Leadership; Leadership Ambidexterity.

Rapid change in complex contemporary environments leads to the need for organizations to innovate in order to survive. Ironically, though, complex environments give rise to inherent ambiguities and related tensions that make it difficult to lead innovation effectively. These tensions are related to dichotomies or dualities that are inherent in change. Leaders need to be able to recognise and address these tensions to deal with complexity and rapid change at all levels, and to manage innovation strategically. This research focuses on the identification and investigation of a specific tension that can negatively impact innovation leadership if not addressed effectively.

Recent research indicates that ambidexterity may assist with managing paradoxical tensions related to innovation leadership. Yet little is known about how ambidexterity works in practice nor how it might be developed for leaders. This research includes a series of three studies that identify paradoxical orientations that can impact ambidexterity and innovation leadership. One key aim of the research was to develop a psychometrically and contextually valid multidimensional measure of paradoxical innovation leadership orientations. This aim was supported by qualitative data gathered from semi-structured individual interviews with 66 innovation leaders. The instrument was then developed using quantitative data from 974 participants, and a replication study using quantitative data from 118 innovation leaders was also conducted. The research indicated that the paradoxical innovation leadership orientations were comprised of four paired dimensions, and the instrument developed to measure these orientations displayed sound psychometric properties. Further, the application of the instrument with various occupational groupings was tested in quantitative studies, which supported both the theoretical integrity and the occupational applicability of the instrument. The interrelated studies reported in this paper address a gap in the research related to the identification and application of key paradoxical dimensions associated with innovation leadership.”

Practitioner Points

  • Ambidextrous leadership approaches support both adaptation and maintenance functions in organisations for innovation sustainability, and identifying and managing paradoxical tensions in innovation contexts has been found to facilitate ambidexterity.
  • This study identified paradoxical innovation leadership orientations that impact ambidexterity, and established that these orientations are comprised of nested dimensional pairings.
  • The dimensional pairings were validly measured by a new psychometric instrument, and were identified as being hierarchically arranged and causally ordered.
  • The dimensional profile of occupational groupings was found to be consistent with underlying theory.

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