Great leaders understand that self-awareness forms the cornerstone of personal and professional growth. Leadership assessment tools and development resources offer valuable insights into your strengths, identify weaknesses, and elevate your leadership skills to new heights. For HR leaders, these leadership assessment tools provide a reliable method to enhance management teams, align leadership behaviors, and drive enduring organizational success.

If you’re eager to evaluate your leadership role and improve your leadership effectiveness, Contact Us to begin with a leadership assessment today. Alternatively, explore the leadership tools below to discover how they can ignite leadership excellence and foster leadership development.

ROUD LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT 360 (RLA360)

The Roud Leadership Assessment 360 (RLA360) gives leaders a full circle, evidence based picture of how their leadership is actually experienced by others, rather than relying on assumptions or gut feel. By gathering confidential input from managers, peers, direct reports and key stakeholders against clear leadership competencies, it highlights both strengths to leverage and specific behaviours that are limiting impact. This multidirectional lens becomes a single, shared “page of truth” from which genuine development work can begin.

One of the major advancements of the RLA360 is its tight integration with professional coaching and a structured leadership development plan, turning raw data into targeted behaviour change. Leaders work through their RLA360 report directly with Nick, and together create a bespoke Individual Leadership Development Plan (ILDP), and then re-measured progress through follow up mini 360s (LeaderPulse) on the behaviours they are actively developing. This allows for clear clarity, tight focus and evidence in improvement rather than a one-off survey that gets filed away in the top draw.  For smart intelligent leaders the benefit is not just more feedeback, but better feedback grounded in how others truly experience their behaviours day to day.

MBTI Step II enhances leadership development by breaking down each of the four – letter type preferences into five nuanced facets, revealing subtle behavioural defferences that explain why individuals of the same type lead differently. Take ‘Thinking’ preference mgith show facets like “Reasonable” (logical analysis) versus 
Critical” (skeptical critique), helping leaders pinpoint strenghts in decision-making. For leaders, this granularity supports targeted growth, such as adapting communication styles (eg, from Direct to more Accommodating in team interactions. When coupled with the RLA360 its a powerful acurate measure of leadership behaviour. 

The CPI260 assessment delivers a nuanced portrait of a leader’s personality as percieved by others measuring 26 work related traits across five categories like self-management, team building, and sustaining vision to reveal hidden strenghts and blind spots. Tailored for senior executives, it benchmarks performance against 18 leadership competencies validated on high-performance managers, fostering targeted development that boosts effectiveness and organisational impact (66% of users report improved leadership outcomes) coupled with the RLA360 a powerful tool that effective leaders gain much from. 

Since 2006 Nick Roud has been supporting professionals in their careers. His recent book CV Writing has helped many articuate themselves effectively whilst also ensuring their modern CV is tailored to what modern organisations seek. Pages full of up to date insights and aspects that are getting positive results from readers. 

The Individual Leadership Development Plan (ILDP) is Nick’s proven 20-page, assessment driven framework designed to turn insights into action. It helps you build a bespoke focused plan for your leadership growth. Grounded in real evidence from your performance and focus areas. 

Alongside your ILDP, you’ll also gain access to Nick’s Development Strategies Resource Library, a comprehensive collection of 200+ practical leadership tools and on-the-job strategies, each organised around the key leadership competencies used in the RLA360, you will also be given links to specific articles, books to help your growth. 

LeaderPulse is built to show a clear return on your leadership investment (ROI).

It measures what truly matters, progress and impact over time. Every three months, key stakeholders (your manager, peers, and direct reports) provide focused feedback on your priority developpment areas. This builds real accountability and ensures momentum stays strong.

You’ll gain real time insights into your growth so you can if needed adjust your strategies and stay on track. Most importantly, LeaderPulse proves the coaching is working demonstrating measurable shifts in your leadership effectiveness and confidence. LeaderPulse is fully integrated into Nick’s CEO, Senior Executive and Emerging leadership one to one coaching and plays a central role in Action and Achievement phases, validating the specific outcomes of your leadership work.

At Nick Roud Coaching, we deeply belive that culture sits at the very heart of every organisation’s success. Understanding your culture isn’t a ‘nice to do’ exercise it’s essential. The way people think, behave, and make decisions every day shapes how your business performs, grows, attracts talent, and ultimately how it’s experienced by customers and employees alike. 

That’s why we use a world-class tool that is grounded in more than 30+ years of global reseach and practical experience. The tool helps leaders uncover the true ‘health’ of their organisation’s culture, revealing where it’s strong and where it’s holding the business back. 

The Outcome? A comprehensive 50 page report that shines a bright light on both the strenghts and the gaps in your culture. With these up to date insights, Boards and leaders can take deliberate, informed action to foster alignment, accountability, and trust across their teams. Beccause when culture is left unexamined, it quietly erodes performance. But when it’s understood and nurtured, it becomes your organisation’s greatest competitive advantage!