LMAP 360

LMAP 360 was developed within the context of a large, growing body of research showing a set of personality traits consistently associated with leadership effectiveness, along with common personality traits that derail performance.

Most 360s measure competencies and generate bar charts and numbers representing little more then a “data dump,” that too often leave participants asking, What does this all mean? Why should I care? What can I start doing today to be more successful? LMAP 360 reports provide easy to understand graphic profiles of assessment results and a highly personalized narrative report, providing leaders with a clear picture of strengths and areas of improvement. Participants are frequently stunned by how accurately the feedback narratives depict them.

Research: LMAP 360 is supported by extensive evidence of reliability and validity and is rooted in The High Performance Leadership Profile, an empirically-based benchmark based on research with the 13 LMAP traits. Six traits are associated with high performance as depicted below (and many different combinations of these six traits can create a high-performance leadership style), five traits interfere with performance, and two traits operate as either assets or liabilities depending on what other traits are prominent in the profile.

An LMAP 360 Profile typically includes a mix of behavioral assets and liabilities; few people have only high performance traits – most leaders have areas to develop where effective behaviors do not come naturally. Moreover, personality traits interact with and are influenced by the presence or absence of the other personality characteristics, which impacts effectiveness. LMAP proprietary technology analyzes these complex relationships, explicitly addressing areas of conflict or ambivalence, and focuses on how each unique combination of traits interact and impact leadership effectiveness. What makes LMAP unique is that from these complex analyses we produce an easy to understand narrative report.

For each LMAP 360 Report, an analysis of over 240 permutations of the 13 LMAP traits allows for the selection of the components that form a LMAP report, creating a highly personalized, compelling, in-depth narrative. LMAP 360 Reports compare a leader’s profile to a large normative database for benchmarking and interpretation to examine:

• A leader’s most prominent personality traits and notable blind spots
• Clusters of traits that interact and create a unique leadership style
• Personality clusters that operate in the real world as assets or as liabilities
• Ways to leverage strengths and manage counterproductive tendencies

LMAP 360 Reports also include a range of resources for action planning and monitoring behavior change including:

• Conversations to initiate, questions to ask, and ways to manage key discussions
• Behaviors to use and to avoid
• Exercises done independently and interactively with co-workers
• Practical methods to maximize talents and take control of ineffective behaviors
• Ways to keep motivated and stay interested in self-development
• Websites, books, audio, video

LMAP Pulse is included with LMAP 360. In combination, the system is rooted in best-practices for using a 360 to drive behavior change: LMAP 360 helps identify a Leadership Development Goal and LMAP Pulse provides formalized structure, support and accountability required to implement that Leadership Development Goal.

LMAP 360 is available in English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese; other languages by request.

• See Sample LMAP 360 Report

• See LMAP 360 Product Sheet