PsyCap Potential
To thrive as a business, you need to identify and invest in the individuals with the highest potential to become successful leaders. But research shows that many organisations make poor talent decisions when they rely solely on past performance as an indicator of future success.
PsyCap Potential is the solution. With this unique and globally validated psychometric assessment, you will measure the psychological capabilities proven to predict future potential and offer people a pathway to accelerate growth.
Over two decades of research, we have identified five critical psychological capabilities that consistently predict leadership success: Mental Agility, Emotional Agility, Confidence, Resilience and Drive. In a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world, it is these capabilities that elevate the most effective organisations and leaders above the rest.
Unlike other models, these are not specific skills or knowledge, nor are they fixed personality traits. Instead, they are personal qualities that can be developed over time.
PsyCap Potential is a single, rigorous psychometric that allows you to measure these psychological capabilities as relevant to different levels of leadership, compare potential across different talent populations, and give individuals powerful insights to help realise their potential.
Mental Agility
to study, analyse and understand new problems and situations.
Emotional Agility
to be personally and interpersonally effective.
Confidence
to take on and put in the necessary effort to succeed at new and challenging tasks.
Resilience
to bounce back and grow even when facing challenges and adversity.
Drive
to strive for success and pursue goals.
Best uses
- High volume and general recruitment
- Graduate recruitment and development
- High potential identification
- Succession planning
- Personal and leadership development
- Coaching
Key features
- Globally validated and registered with the British Psychological Society
- Completed online via our secure Enable platform
- Available reports include individual profiles and development plans
- Data dashboards and analytics via Enable platform
- Benchmarks and comparisons against international norm groups
- Profile strengths and risks of individuals and aggregate populations
Success story
PsyCap Potential in action
Challenge
A FTSE 100 company wanted to bring rigour and objectivity to the assessment and development of its senior leadership talent population. It had identified the need to more robustly differentiate performance from future stretch potential and create a future-proof talent pipeline, able to deliver the strategic intent and address future market challenges.
Solution
We consulted with key stakeholders to identify the critical requirements of the future leadership population. These were mapped to the predictors of future stretch potential and behavioural performance capabilities.
The result was a model of performance and potential that would identify and develop leaders with the psychological and behavioural capabilities to deal with volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments.
