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Preston Leadership is proud to offer the following assessments, along with many others to fit your needs...

Watson-Glaser
The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal is designed to measure an individual's critical thinking skills. These skills are vital in many management and professional positions in which it is important to be able to analyze issues, define problems, formulate relevant hypothesis, obtain solutions, and make sound decisions.

Wesman
The Wesman Personnel Classification Test is used to measure an important aspect of general mental ability -verbal reasoning. The assessment measures both the ability to reason through analogy and the perception of verbal relationships. The Wesman is useful for evaluating an individual’s potential for success in positions that require skill in manipulating verbal concepts. Such positions include sales, management, or executive-level roles.

Raven's Standard Matrices
The Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices is a nonverbal assessment tool designed to measure the ability to perceive and think clearly, make meaning out of confusion, and formulate new concepts when faced with novel information. The SPM score indicates a candidate’s potential for success in such positions as supervisor, mid-level manager, or equivalent technical or professional positions in an organization.

Raven's Advanced Matrices
The Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices is used to evaluate success in high-level professional and executive positions that require clear and accurate thinking, problem identification, holistic situation assessment, and monitoring of tentative solutions for consistency with all available information. It is designed to differentiate at the high end of intellectual ability.

The California Psychological Inventory™ 434 (CPI™ 434) Assessment
The Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices is a nonverbal assessment tool designed to measure the ability to perceive and think clearly, make meaning out of confusion, and formulate new concepts when faced with novel information. The SPM score indicates a candidate’s potential for success in such positions as supervisor, mid-level manager, or equivalent technical or professional positions in an organization.

The CPI 260® Assessment
The CPI 260® assessment objectively describes individuals the way others see them. It builds on the exceptional history, validity, and reliability of the California Psychological Inventory™ (CPI™) assessment, transforming this trusted resource into a leadership development tool for today’s organizations. Its 260 items measure more than two dozen scales in such areas as dealing with others, self-management, motivation, thinking style, personal characteristics, and work-related characteristics. Built on more than 50 years of research, the CPI 260® assessment is designed for straightforward, easy administration that respects the time constraints of business. Organizations can use this tool in such applications as management training, coaching, organization development, and performance improvement.

The Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation– Behavior® (FIRO-B®) Assessment
The Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation–Behavior® (FIRO-B®) assessment helps people understand their own behavior and that of others in interpersonal situations. For more than 40 years, it has been used around the world to clarify human interactions in both business and personal situations. It explores three basic interpersonal needs (Inclusion, Control, and Affection) along two dimensions (Expressed and Wanted). The FIRO-B assessment can be used as an integral part of team-building initiatives, management training programs, personal development plans, and communication workshops. Requiring only 15 minutes to complete the 54 items, the FIRO-B tool quickly sets the stage for self-understanding.

The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)
The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) is the world’s best-selling instrument for conflict resolution. The 30-item, forced-choice inventory identifies a person’s preferred conflict-handling mode, or style, and provides detailed information about how he or she can effectively use all five modes -competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, and accommodating. Using the TKI, individuals can learn to move beyond conflict and focus on achieving organizational goals and business objectives. Organizations can apply the TKI to such challenges as change management, team building, leadership development, stress management, negotiation, and communication. The TKI has been used successfully by businesses, educators, and organizational development professionals for over 30 years. It can be used as a stand-alone tool or as part of a comprehensive training program.

Newly Revised Strong Interest Inventory® Assessment
For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment has helped organizations attract and retain the brightest talent and has guided thousands of individuals in their search for a rich and fulfilling life of work and leisure. The most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world, the newly revised Strong is more powerful than ever, with major updates and new content that reflect the way we work and learn today: • A focus on business and technology careers and the key skills required to work successfully in teams. • A precise 5-point answer format to help you pinpoint the most satisfying career, educational, and leisure choices. • New Basic Interest scales, including the fast-growing fields of computer hardware and electronics, marketing and advertising, finance and investing. • New Occupational Scales, including Computer & IS Manager, Network Administrator, Financial Manager, and ESL Instructor.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Assessment
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is the most widely used personality assessment in the world. With a proven record of reliability spanning more than 50 years, it offers a foundation for understanding individual differences and applying that understanding to the ways people think, communicate, and interact. Versatile and dependable, the MBTI tool sets the stage for lifelong learning and development. The MBTI assessment is used to develop individuals, teams, and organizations to meet today’s challenges in such areas as communication, team building, leadership, and career management. Individuals and organizations, including many Fortune 500 companies, use more than 2 million assessments worldwide each year. Form M of the instrument has 93 items and provides the basic MBTI four-letter type, while Form Q has 144 items and provides not only the four-letter type but also results for 20 facets of that type.

Harrison Assessments
The Harrison Assessment focuses on providing the most trusted and accurate employee assessment tools in the industry. Harrison assessment tools assist managers throughout the entire HR process, helping companies become more productive and efficient, leading to increased profitability. Harrison Assessments’ tools include solutions to automate the recruitment process, hire the best employees, develop employee success, and retain top talent.

Preston Leadership and Soundview Executive Book Summaries®
Clients of Preston Leadership can enjoy unlimited access to thousands of business bestsellers through Soundview Executive Book Summaries® (www.summary.com). Soundview provides a convenient way for Preston clients to familiarize themselves with the key points of today’s top business books - available in print or audio format on demand.

DiSC® Learning Instrument Distributor
Over 40 million people in 50 countries have utilized assessment-driven learning solutions based on DiSC®. As certified DiSC® facilitators, Preston Leadership coaches now have dozens of highly effective professional development instruments (in use at more than 135 of the Fortune 500), at their disposal.