Lectical Self Understanding Assessment
Background
The Lectical® Self-Understanding Assessment (LSUA) assesses how a person thinks about themselves within the context of their relationships with a selected range of people (e.g. family, co-workers, team members, etc.).
A person’s response reveals how they think about these relationships, themselves, and their growth as individuals. Through the assessment and the resulting findings, participants are challenged to think critically about how they relate to others and themselves. Such understanding is crucial to enabling leaders and team members to be engaged and effective in a complex, changing environment.
How the LSUA Process Works
The LSUA asks test-takers to choose four relationships – either personal (i.e. ‘self as parent’ etc.) or professional (i.e. ‘self as leader’, ‘self as learner’ or ‘self as a colleague’ etc.), and reflect on how they see themselves in each of these roles. These parameters are established as part of the setup.
The assessment takers are then required to write short responses describing those relationships and discussing how they see themselves concerning those relationships. They do this from two perspectives: a view of the present (current self) and as they would like to be seen (ideal self).
They also take two short surveys that focus on optimism and character. The optimism survey illuminates how the person views the world. The character survey provides insight into leaders' perspectives on their integrity, perseverance, openness to learning, comfort with challenges, and emotional awareness.
The results are analysed, and the resulting report helps the person consider their strengths and weaknesses, how these relate to how they see themselves, and how they think others see them. The report covers how the person thinks and learns, ethics, sense of responsibility to others, respect for others, personal responsibility, willingness to seek and accept feedback, and reflectivity.
Why Engage Michelle
The LSUA provides reliable measures of key dimensions of self-understanding that are not captured with conventional assessments.
Participants walk away with a greater understanding of themselves and how they see themselves vis-à-vis their relationship with others. They also receive a leadership development plan that identifies suggested areas for growth and tools, techniques and potential approaches to deliver on those learning goals.
This knowledge is critical in helping a person become a better leader, as you can’t understand others if you don’t first understand yourself. It helps people better manage their behaviour and how they interact with and engage with clients, colleagues, stakeholders and family/friends.
The LSUA supports leadership development efforts by explaining what participants will most likely benefit from learning next and suggesting specific learning activities tailored to their needs.
Further details: LSUA tool.
Next Steps
Michelle Gibbings is one of the few accredited practitioners able to use this tool in the Asia-Pacific region. Get in touch to discover how this tool can positively benefit your leadership development.