The Leadership Versatility Index® (LVI) is based on a leadership model featured in The Versatile Leader. The book offers a simple, compact framework to account for the complexities of the manager’s job—the tensions and trade-offs, and the balances to be struck. It covers both the interpersonal aspects of leading across the forceful-enabling spectrum as well as the business side of the strategic-operational spectrum. The book and the 360 are a matched set—the book explains the conceptual model of leadership and development, while the 360 feedback survey is the vehicle for customizing those concepts to individual leaders.
While based on careful statistical research, the LVI was inspired by the authors' many years of consulting to senior managers about their leadership. Because of its validity, brevity, and focus, the LVI is effective as a stand-alone assessment as well as part of a larger assessment battery. Some organizations use it to supplement their own in-house 360s.
Performance Programs assists the authors with the development and hosting of the online Leadership Versatility Index.
