Sample Candidate Evaluation Report

IPI Battery for Leadership Potential

Company: ABC Corporation

WEIGHTED AGGREGATE SCORE:   69%

OVERALL RATING:  Average

MANAGEMENT - RELATED SKILLS

Management Transactions Audit

This audit is designed to be an assessment of one’s interpersonal transactions and their implications for managerial effectiveness. This candidate is logical and objective with superiors and subordinates, but may be authoritarian and traditional with colleagues. She displayed a high degree of constructive transactions, and fewer unconstructive transactions, in her relationships.

Power Management Inventory

This measures why a person values and desires power. The most satisfactory answer for this position is for purposes of serving and benefiting the common welfare, a socialized power motive. Ms. Kane displayed a personalized power motive, which means that she has a tendency to value and desire power for purposes of personal aggrandizement and control.

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

C.P.F. (People Contact Desired)

This candidate possesses an above average desire for daily people contact, which is essential for the position of Leadership Potential.

N.P.F. (Emotional Stability)

When compared to our norm group, Ms. Kane was found to possess superior emotional stability. For the position, this level is considered very good. Groups constituted of persons of this level of stability or higher, generally make strong teams, trusting one another and free from manifestations of panic and low morale.

16 P. F. (5^th Edition)

Ms. Kane appears to be a reserved individual, who may be cautious about forming personal attachments. However, she prefers working in teams, and may not be at her best in situations where she must function independently, even though she is a "take charge" kind of person. This candidate tends to focus more on the practical than the abstract, and may not take the feelings of others into consideration in her decision-making.

Ms. Kane seems to be goal-oriented and self-disciplined, and will be very effective in organized and structured situations, but may find it hard to deal with the unpredictable. She can be expected to be conscientious and conform to conventional norms. She appears to possess high average reasoning skills.

Recommendation

Ms. Kane is at most an average to high average candidate for a position requiring leadership skills.

With respect to her management-related skills, Ms. Kane demonstrated acceptable levels of ability in management transactions, especially with subordinates and superiors, and, from these scores, can be seen as capable of performing in a constructive, adult-like manner within your management structure. However, her relationships with colleagues may be more problematic, and consequently, her skill at performing at a high level as a member of a senior executive team, working closely with other senior executives, should be investigated before a hiring decision is made. Another concern is her power motive, which was found to be less than acceptable. Since the candidate values power more for personal aggrandizement, she may tend to "empire build" rather than be a "team player". 

Interpersonally, Ms. Kane is likely to be dominant, hard-charging, and tough-minded as a leader. Since this candidate is straightforward, and displayed little tendency to tell her superiors what they want to hear, her striving for perfection, goal attainment, discipline and independence are all very positive. Her low score on self-confidence and tendency to be impersonal and insensitive may be obstacles to achieving her goals as well as those of the organization.

In summary, the "red flags" raised in the power motive area coupled with a hard-driving, dominant, perfectionist personality may lead to clashes with her peers in areas of overlapping jurisdictions. If your organization is considering her for hire, it is suggested that these concerns be mentioned to her. If she is too overly dominant on the job, she risks alienating members of the team, even if she is capable of achieving the desired goals. As well, some sensitivity training with a formal management training course should be considered as part of her integration plan into your organization.