Managers and Supervisors sit at the center of execution — translating leadership strategy into action while guiding individual contributors toward results. The Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes that drive success as an Individual Contributor often need to evolve at this level, requiring new roles, behaviors, and practices to lead effectively.
Our Manager and Supervisor Talent Tools, built on the evidence-based and experience-tested KSAM framework, give talent professionals the structure needed to select, develop, deploy, promote, and support managers with confidence.
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DIY: Develop-It-Yourself for Managers or Supervisors
DIY is a development guide, or as a digital experience via DIY Digital, designed specifically to be the “go-to guide” for Managers to develop in the 11 Roles and 30 Practices that increase effectiveness.
Roles and Practices will vary in importance from organization to organization, so having a guide that allows rapid access to what matters is vital. This guide includes: The Domain of the Practice, Why the Practice is Important, Behaviors of the Practice, Where the Practice fits in the work of the Manager, How to measure performance in the Practice, What can happen when the Practice is done poorly, Brain insights from recent neuroscience to help develop the Practice, and Development Tips.
Manager 360 Assessment
We have developed a comprehensive 360 assessment to facilitate Manager development, which includes 12 months of access to our AI-powered digital DIY Dashboard for each learner!
The Combined Report – Our most complete report that includes the placemat, summary, detail, blind spots and hidden strengths, and written comments.
The Core Report – An easy-to-read report that includes all core assessment data.
The Potential Estimator – View three distinct indicators and estimators of potential mapped to our KSAP library.
Group Reports – Identify key developmental patterns across mlutiple learners through aggregate group reporting options.
We can be your partner in implementing 360 Assessments using our KSA (Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes) Libraries, including assessment management, reporting, and coaching.
Hello! Interview Guide
Everyone wants to recruit and hire Managers or Supervisors that add immediate value. However, successfully recruiting and hiring winning Managers is not easy!
KSAM Hello! provides you with a comprehensive and easy to use interview guide with all the tools you need to increase your probability of hiring winners every time. These tools help you conduct consistently effective interviews. To access this content and create custom interview guides, check out our Interview Guide Builder.
Sorting Cards
Roles and Practices will vary in importance from organization to organization. Sort cards immerse decision-makers into exercises that put the science directly in their hands in order to determine what is most important in the organizational context. Also accessible on our virtual card sorting platform.
What Roles and Practices are most important for your Managers or Supervisors to develop to support the organization’s future state? This question can be answered with sorting cards.
Manager or Supervisor Diagnostic Tools
Placemats allow the user to have rapid access to an overview of the KSAM information in easy to access format. Placemats have been designed in several ways to meet your needs and come in both color and black and white versions.
SIDE A/B – Accessible Overview of the library of Roles and Practices and a Review of Developmental Difficulty of all Practices
SIDE C/D – User friendly view of how each Role connects to the Practices and identification of the mission critical Practices for success
SIDE E/F – At a glance view of how all Practices can be leveraged to build your career through assignments accompanied with definitions of Career Assignment
