The Worldwide Center for Organizational Development, is in the business of developing and deploying management and personal diagnostic solutions for Enterprises of all sizes and types and developing highly sophisticated processes to help organizations to develop and to become more successful in their efforts. A key part of this development is an extensive

range of diagnostic surveys and assessments that are focused upon helping organizations to gather data more efficiently and effectively in order to improve long term decision-making.

The od-center.org web sites hosts and showcases over fifty electronic diagnostic tools of which fifteen are widely renowned assessment processes from all over the world (from the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK, as well as Australia). Each of these assessment processes has been extensively researched and validated, and deployed in literally hundreds of clients companies (or widely varying sizes and types) and utilized by thousands of end users.

The major assessments are as follows:

These assessment tools help to measure leadership behavior and competencies, team types and styles, managerial performance capability, individual performance capability and potential, job suitability, sales aptitude, personality preferences and employee opinions.

A brochure describing many of the above in more detail is available by clicking on the link below. For more information download this brochure (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Major Assessment processes

Brief summaries of all of the major assessment tools utilised by the Center are shown below. However, if a fuller description is needed or sample reports need to be viewed, click on any of the assessment hyperlinks below.

Circumnavigator™

A totally flexible 360-degree assessment for individuals, teams and an entire enterprise, using questions of their choice, rating scales of their own design and rater types of their choosing. Either build an assessment from an extensive existing library or build your own from scratch. Click here for a Circumnavigator™ process brochure.

MAP/Excel

This is a complete management development/assessment Center system using video scenarios to help measure managerial proficiency. Once results are known, an extensive series of video based packages (called excel) are available to develop managerial skills improvement. Click here for a MAP process brochure. Click here for a Excel process brochure.

TotalView™

A highly valid and reliable assessment and benchmarking system for selecting new employees, coaching current employees, and planning for retention and succession. Click here for a TotalView™ process brochure.

Situational Leadership®

This on-line assessment (with self, and 360-degree options) asks participants to respond to the 12 situations in order to determine their leadership style profile. This can then be used to review the opportunity to better match leadership style with follower willingness and readiness in different circumstances. Click here for a Sit Lead process brochure.

Janus

The Janus assessment system aimed mainly at assisting in individual performance management, is a large-scale competency based diagnostic process that allows individuals to select competency categories to build into a single questionnaire and then apply the tool as a self, 180 or 360 degree feedback process. Click here for a Janus process brochure.

Psychological Type Indicator (PTI)

The Psychological Type Indicator (PTI) is a carefully crafted personality measure that is designed to give individuals guidance about their psychological (Jungian) type using the sixteen types (INTJ, ENTP, etc) first postulated by Carl Jung. The focus of the PTI is on providing individuals themselves, their managers and those who train them, with an understanding of personality and its effect on performance both inside and beyond the workplace. Click here for a PTI process brochure.

MTRi® (team types indicator)

The MTR-i® is a team-roles model and questionnaire that identifies eight new team roles that try to show what kind of contribution is being made to the team by each individual. Unlike other Myers Briggs Type Indicators (MTBI), the MTR-i® team roles change from situation to situation, in accordance with the demands of the environment. Click here for an MTRi process brochure.

Work profile questionnaire (WPQ)

Used mainly as a selection assessment process, the Work Profile Questionnaire uses the Big Five personality scales, to look at our work preferences and identify situations in which we are most likely to flourish and be effective. Click here for a WPQ process brochure.

Sales aptitude Test (PASAT 2000)

The new PASAT 2000 is an extensively researched and rigorously constructed personality questionnaire, designed to measure those personality attributes, which have a direct bearing on success in a sales environment. Click here for a PASAT process brochure.

Personal Skills Leader (PS Leader)

PS Leader guides participants through 82 behavior based questions, but asking for responses in two independent but related scales. Firstly individuals and their raters when completing the 360-degree version of the assessment are asked to indicate the required proficiency of the behavior before then asking for perceived current proficiency. Click here for a PS Leader process brochure.

Insight inventory

The INSIGHT Inventory is an easy-to-use, self-scoreable personal style inventory that gives participants a positive way to learn more about themselves, discover their personal strengths, and improve their communication skills. Click here for an Insight process brochure.

Enterprise Pulse™

Based on 10 years of research, Enterprise Pulse™ offers a comprehensive and well proven survey system to gather employee opinions on a range of subject areas that are seen to be critical to the overall performance of any organization. Enterprise Pulse™ has 10 different survey frameworks that can be used. Click here for an Enterprise Pulse™ process brochure.

Safe assessment for everyone (SAFE)

Based on over 5 years of research, S.A.F.E offers a comprehensive and well proven survey system to gather employee opinions on current occupational health and safety performance in order to identify key areas of priority to lift performance in the future. Click here for a SAFE process brochure.

Values Indicator

The Values Indicator offers a comprehensive and well proven survey system to gather employee values and those that they assign to their wider organization choosing from fifty adjectives under five key clusters. Click here for a Values Indicator process brochure.

Interview Generator®

An online interview-building system for use by individuals who interview other people in order to evaluate and/or better understand their work-related skills, knowledge, abilities and competencies. Click here for an Ultimate Selection Source process brochure.

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