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Please see the Chally instrument that measures potential. It comes with coaching suggestions for managers and supervisors to help guide the development of their staff. www.chally.com.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Nalin Srivastava <Nalin_s@isb.edu> wrote:

Dear All,

We are looking for an scale that can be used by supervisors to measure
'leadership potential' of their subordinates.

I look forward to your assistance and suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

With warm regards

Nalin Srivastava
Research Associate
Indian School of Business
Hyderabad

Nalin,

 

Any validated leadership scale could be used to measure potential.  They indicate where a person is on various aspects of the domains being assessed and were improvement might be needed.  The appropriate scale to choose would be the one that taps the domain of leadership that you would like to assess.  Theoretically it would be impossible to have a scale that captures "leadership potential" as we all know that leadership is a very multidimensional construct with different determinants depending upon the needs of the organization, followers, and outside stakeholders.  Therefore, I would suggest you look in the literature for leadership traits or behaviors that have been shown to be predictive of group and leader performance in the sector in which you are assessing potential and measure it this way.

 

Regards,

 

David

 

Cass Business School

 

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:29 PM, <Nalin_s@isb.edu> wrote:

Dear All,

We are looking for an scale that can be used by supervisors to measure
'leadership potential' of their subordinates.

I look forward to your assistance and suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

With warm regards

Nalin Srivastava
Research Associate
Indian School of Business
Hyderabad

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