TGS Overview
The GreyScale (TGS) is a cutting-edge leadership assessment for 21st-century leaders.
It comprehensively evaluates critical dark personality traits (Borderline, Machiavellian, Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic), providing a clear and detailed picture of a leader's strengths and vulnerabilities. It helps organizations comply with psychological health and safety legislation by identifying leadership toxicity and assessing its impact on the four psychosocial risks - Anxiety, Stimulation, Conformity, and Ambiguity (ASCA). TGS equips you with the knowledge to make informed decisions for a healthier leadership culture, ensuring leadership suitability and authenticity for the right cultural and performance fit.
Find out more details about the assessment below and how it can help you or your organization. Click the 'Take Assessment' button above to take the assessment individually.
Or, as an organization, contact us here.
Taking The Assessment
The assessment consists of 173 questions, and it takes less than 25 minutes to complete.
Authenticity Check
One of the key ways we are different from other assessments is our ability to ensure respondents are telling the truth. TGS detects 99% of inauthentic responses to prevent destructive psychopaths or other risky and toxic personalities from entering your organization. The assessment results highlight inauthentic results after forensically checking for consistency, randomness, and deception. If there is any concern about authenticity, the participant will be asked to retake the assessment.
Leadership Insights
The TGS Assessment provides several critical and practical insights to help improve leadership effectiveness and performance and reduce risk and toxicity.
Performance Personalities
The reason leaders 'get stuff done'
The performance personalities of The Influencer (Borderline), The Strategist (Machiavellianism), The Promoter (Narcissism), The Driver (Psychopathy), and The Disruptor (Sociopathy) are crucial for effective leadership. They provide traits that enable decisive action, strategic ruthlessness, charismatic confidence, and intense motivation. The GreyScale Assessment identifies these personalities as dynamic (effective/green), diluted (ineffective/amber), or dangerous (risky and toxic/red).
Containment Factors
The 11 factors influencing leadership effectiveness
11 containment factors grouped into Defensiveness, Morality, Relationship Attachment, and Core Motivations, impact leadership effectiveness and performance. These factors mediate or amplify a leader's behavior, making them more or less effective or risky and toxic in certain situations. TGS provides insight into how these factors interact with a leader's personality to shape their impact on people and business performance.
Leadership Assets and Achilles Heels
Winning & Risky Combinations
As a two-tailed assessment, TGS evaluates combinations of performance personalities and containment factors, ranking them by effectiveness. Leaders gain insights into leveraging winning combinations and mitigating losing ones in order to increase their effectiveness and drive success.
Psychosocial Risk (ASCA)
Psychosocial risk factors impacting people and performance
Four forces—anxiety, stimulation, conformity, and ambiguity (ASCA)—impair team effectiveness. Effective leaders manage their ASCA factors and mitigate their impact on others to foster efficient problem-solving and prevent the workplace toxicity that erodes success.
ASCA's Impact on People
Workplace toxicity creates stress and distress
If people feel stressed or distressed their personal performance is impacted . Effective leaders mitigate the four disruptive forces—anxiety, stimulation, conformity, and ambiguity (ASCA)—to reduce any workplace toxicity that is creating stress or distress.
ASCA's Impact on Performance
Problem-solving disruption impacts success
Businesses solve problems to fulfil their purpose. Effective leaders mitigate the four disruptive forces—anxiety, stimulation, conformity, and ambiguity (ASCA)—to create optimal environments for efficient problem-solving performance and driving success.
hello world
hello
testing
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.
Inclusions and Pricing
If you are a Recruiter
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.
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.