TGS is a cutting-edge leadership assessment designed for 21st-century leadership.
Because Effective Leadership Isn't Black and White
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What Leaders Actually Achieved With TGS
How TGS Can Help You
An effective leader should thrive in stressful situations, deal well with complexity and ambiguity, seem to have little anxiety about tackling difficult challenges, and cope with internal and external volatility and uncertainty. The presence of the ‘performance’ personality trait combinations underpins this.
However, suppose these same ‘performance’ personality traits are extreme or not contained. In that case, they can be risky and toxic, negatively impacting the four critical psychosocial risk factors—Anxiety, Stimulation, Conformity, and Ambiguity(ASCA)—and creating unhealthy work environments. This can lead to reduced morale, decreased performance, and high staff turnover.
Our research shows that leaders are born, but effective leaders are made. Effective leaders are self-aware, play to their strengths, and mitigate their weaknesses.
TGS can help you become a more effective leader by giving insight into your effective, risky, and toxic personality combinations and how you impact people and performance
As a board member, psychological health and safety (PHS) regulation compliance by managing psychosocial risk factors is vital for long-term organizational success.
Legal obligations demand strict adherence to these standards, with potential penalties and personal liability for lapses.
Ethically, PHS compliance safeguards employee well-being and enhances organizational reputation, making it more appealing to top talent. Financially, compliance reduces risks associated with fines, costly compensation claims, and productivity losses due to mental health issues. Commitment to PHS compliance is a legal and ethical responsibility and a strategic choice to protect the organization's financial stability and future success.
TGS can help you reduce potential compliance concerns by identifying potential leadership risk and toxicity and demonstrating how the leader's personality combination impacts people and performance through the four critical psychosocial risk factors— Ambiguity, Stimulation, Conformity, and Anxiety (ASCA).
The role of HR in placing the proper leader is crucial.
An effective leader will drive employee engagement, foster a positive work culture, enhance productivity and attract other top talent. Conversely, choosing an ineffective leader can lead to workplace toxicity, resulting in high employee turnover, reduced morale, and decreased performance. Such toxicity damages employees' well-being and harms the organization's reputation, making attracting and retaining top talent difficult.
Therefore, HR's role in selecting effective leaders is critical in shaping a successful, productive, and sustainable workplace environment.
TGS can help you identify potentially effective and toxic leaders as part of your recruitment or development process by providing insights into their winning and risky personality combinations and their impact on the four critical psychosocial risk factors - Anxiety, Stimulation, Conformity and Ambiguity (ASCA) which affects peoples and performance.
Recruiters are responsible for supplying suitable and thoroughly vetted candidate's for leadership positions briefed to them.
Effective leaders drive an organization's success, shaping its culture, strategy, and performance. Inadequate vetting or mismatched candidate's can result in leadership failures, leading to decreased morale, business disruption, and performance. The consequences of a wrong candidate placement are significant, impacting the reputation and bottom line of the recruitment firm and the business where the candidate is placed.
Recruiters must be able to ensure candidate's possess the qualities necessary for effective leadership.
TGS can help catch out the supersmart psychopaths who are gaming the system by detecting 99% of 'inauthentic' responses in the assessment.
The Leadership Problems TGS Helps Solve
Key Reasons to Use TGSLeadership Solutions
Discover your Leadership Assets and Achilles Heels.
The GreyScale provides actionable insights into your leadership Assets and Achilles' heels. Understand what will define you as a leader and what might disrupt your leadership career. Invest in yourself and your career today.
Are risky or toxic leaders hiding in your business? The GreyScale can tell you.
You must know this to comply with the ISO 45003:2021 international standards on workplace psychosocial health and safety risks.
Are risky or toxic candidates slipping through the cracks? The GreyScale can tell you.
Our assessment detects 99% of inauthentic responses, reducing the possibility of hires that harm performance and increase workplace psychosocial risk.
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Discover your Leadership Assets and Achilles Heels.
The GreyScale provides actionable insights into your leadership Assets and Achilles' heels. Understand what will define you as a leader and what might disrupt your leadership career. Invest in yourself and your career today.
Are risky or toxic leaders hiding in your business? The GreyScale can tell you.
You must know this to comply with the ISO 45003:2021 international standards on workplace psychosocial health and safety risks.
Are risky or toxic candidates slipping through the cracks? The GreyScale can tell you.
Our assessment detects 99% of inauthentic responses, reducing the possibility of hires that harm performance and increase workplace psychosocial risk.
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About the TGS Assessment and Its Outputs
Why Use The Greyscale (TGS)?
The TGS Assessment provides insight into leaders' five performance personalities and containment factors; their effective, ineffective, and toxic and risky combinations; and how these personality traits impact the four critical psychosocial risk factors, ASCA, which in turn affect people and problem-solving.
For organisations, the TGS Business Solution enables leaders to be grouped and analysed across all outputs.
See a Sample TGS Assessment Report
Curious about what your leadership assessment report will look like? See a Sample Report and discover how The GreyScale provides in-depth insights into your leadership style.
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Solutions That Meet Your Unique Needs
TGS provides a variety of solutions for individual leaders, business organizations and recruitment firms. Our solutions are built around two assessments - The TGS Core Leadership Assessment and the TGS Team Assessment. These can be used separately or combined together delivering powerful and actionable insights to increase leadership effectiveness; to identify and mitigate leadership toxicity and risk and to improve leadership candidate suitability.