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HOW THE BEST LEADERS MAKE EVERYONE SMARTER

Would you like to find out how you and your team stack up against the Multipliers and Diminishers in the book?

We have a full range of assessments (360s and team aggregates) for finding out where you and your team fall along the Multiplier-Diminisher continuum.

Each of the assessments is processed through Booth & Company: the leader in premium, online, confidential multi-rater assessments. Each leader creates a personal portal from which to manage the assessment process. Once the assessment is complete, a PDF of the report is emailed directly to the leader being assessed.

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller, has been featured on National Public Radio and continues to rank in the Top 20 leadership books on Amazon.com.

Harvard Business Review May 2010 edition contains a feature article on the book’s research.

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Are You An Accidental Diminisher? To find out, take our Free Survey

In our research, we were surprised to discover how few Diminishers understood the restrictive impact they were having on others. Most had moved into management having been praised for their personal, and often intellectual, merit, and had assumed their role as boss was to have the best ideas. Others, had once had the mind of a Multiplier, but had been working among Diminishers for so long, they had gone native. Accidental or not, their impact on your team is the same – they might be getting only 1/2 of the true brainpower of their team. Find out if you might be accidentally diminishing your team.

Are You Multiplying Intelligence? To find out, take our Premium Survey

This report is based on the same 72 questions that make up the Multipliers 360 and provides a quick approximation of the ways you may be Multiplying or Diminishing the intelligence in the people around you. The report includes a net score (Multiplier behaviors minus Diminisher behaviors) across each of the five disciplines. A sample report is available upon request.

Multipliers 360 Assessment

Using the full breadth of Multiplier-Diminisher behaviors, this robust, 72-question, multi-rater assessment allows a leader to quickly access a baseline across the Multipliers model. The report includes a net score (Multiplier behaviors minus Diminisher behaviors) across each of the five disciplines. It also includes the Top 5 Multiplier behaviors and the Top 5 Diminisher behaviors to allow an individual to quickly identify a few high-leverage starting points. A sample report is available upon request (two pages are captured below).

1-on-1 Coaching Session

For the full Multipliers 360 assessment, participants may want to participate in a 1-on-1 coaching session to interpret the results and to begin creating a development plan for leading more like a Multiplier. The objective of this coaching session is to identify the key areas for accelerated development (as described on page 203 of Multipliers).

Utilization Index

This assessment is a “Three Minute 360” because it asks only two direct questions to get to the top line and the bottom line of how well a leader is utilizing the people they work with. Each participant will receive a percentage score (1-100%) for how well they are utilizing the intelligence in the people around them. They will also receive feedback for one thing they could do to better improve people’s capability. A sample report is available upon request.

Team Aggregate Report

If you and your team complete the Multipliers 360 you can request a report which aggregates the team’s feedback into a single report. This allows you to identify a whole team’s performance along the Diminisher-Multiplier continuum. We recommend this for any intact teams interested in building Multiplier leadership throughout the team. A sample report is available upon request.