One of my major grants in the last couple of years was from a project that I felt like I was a part of from its inception. The Laureate Professional Assessment tool was a way to determine how to adequately assess a person's professional aptitude and give something more for employers to understand strengths and areas of improvement for students. However, this can be harnessed as a powerful tool to then predict individuals who may be less like to excel characteristics like change adaptability and others and potentially provide training that can allow the student to succeed.
Change Adaptability
Global Mindset
Leading Others
Language Spoken
Interesting we did not focus on traditional areas of performance that you think of. For instance, you may think why GPA is not included within the consideration. Many times, GPA does not predict success.
I have included the final report from the Faculty Research Initiative Grant, which was a seed grant that was used to propel further research. The analytic technique used in this study was multiple regression. Therefore, the findings from this study can translate to a scoring system.
This can translate to the simple prediction equation:
We only have 2 variables and a constant. We can also use the B column to create our predictive model. To do this, we need to replace the B's with their actual numerical values. B0 is found in the row labelled (Constant); B1 in the row for the first predictor (Global Mindset); B2 in the row for the second predictor (Change Adaptability).
By inserting the level of global mindset and their change adaptability, we can now predict how well somebody is likely to lead others. So if a student's predicted leadership requires improvement, they can increase the change adaptability to make sure they can be best at leading others since the coefficient is slightly higher than global mindset.
Leading Others = 3.127 + 0.20*Global Mindset + 0.24*Change Adaptability
You can find the full final report of this grant-funded project here.
Below is another model which now brings into consideration linguistic differential lens for understanding leadership ability.
Holland's career model explores various personalities and careers matched based on these personalities. This is known as Holland's Hexagonal model. While others are binary, there are
John Holland created a hexagonal model that shows the relationship between the personality types and environments.
Notice that the personality types closest to each other are more alike than those farther away. You can see this most clearly when you compare the personalities opposite each other, on the hexagon. For example, read the description of the types for Realistic and Social. You will see that they are virtually the opposite of each other. On the other hand, Social and Artistic are not that far apart. Here is a link for matching personality with occupation: LINK
