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Gain Insights Through Assessments
Next Conversation Consulting leverages tailored assessments to deliver valuable insights at the individual, team, and organizational levels. We collaborate closely with each client to identify the most effective tools aligned with their desired outcomes.
Personality
Motivation
Conative
Emotional Intelligence
Organization Culture
360-Degree
Individual Assessments (Personality, Motivation, Conative)
Individual assessments explore an individual’s typical patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, offering insight into how they naturally interact with others and approach work. These tools help uncover strengths, blind spots, and preferences that influence communication, decision-making, and leadership style. Organizations use personality assessments to enhance self-awareness, improve team dynamics, and ensure the right people are in the right roles for long-term success.
4 Stages of Psychological Safety – Individual
This assessment helps individuals understand how safe they feel to learn, contribute, challenge, and grow within their workplace. It provides a clear view of where psychological safety may be limited and actionable insights to strengthen trust, inclusion, and performance.
DiSC Workplace
DiSC Workplace helps individuals understand their own behavioral style and recognize the styles of others, improving communication and collaboration. It provides practical strategies for adapting to different styles, reducing misunderstandings, and strengthening relationships. Organizations use it to build more cohesive, engaged, and productive teams.
DiSC Leadership
DiSC Leadership focuses on helping leaders understand their leadership style, strengths, and potential blind spots. It offers insights into how their approach impacts team dynamics and provides guidance on flexing their style to meet the needs of different situations. Companies use it to develop more versatile, self-aware leaders who can inspire and drive results.
DiSC Conflict
DiSC Conflict is designed to help individuals understand how they respond to tension and disagreement, both productively and unproductively. It offers tools for reframing conflict from a destructive to a constructive process by recognizing triggers and adapting behaviors. Organizations use it to reduce workplace tension, encourage open dialogue, and create healthier team dynamics.
Gallup Strengths (CliftonStrengths)
The Gallup Strengths (CliftonStrengths) assessment uncovers an individual’s top talent themes—the natural patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior that drive success. By focusing on what people do best, it shifts development from fixing weaknesses to amplifying strengths. Organizations use it to build highly engaged teams, boost productivity, and create leaders who lead authentically.
hogan Assessments
Hogan Assessments evaluate personality, potential, and risk factors that impact workplace performance and leadership effectiveness. They measure everyday behaviors, motivators, and possible derailers under stress, offering a comprehensive view of how someone shows up at work. Organizations use Hogan to select top talent, identify high-potential leaders, and develop strategies that enhance performance and reduce turnover.
Kolbe Assessment
The Kolbe Assessment identifies a person’s natural problem-solving instincts—how they take action when free to be themselves. Unlike personality or skills assessments, it measures conative strengths, such as how someone gathers information, organizes, and executes tasks. Companies use Kolbe to build more effective teams, improve collaboration, and ensure people are working in roles that fit their natural strengths.
Motivational Maps
Motivational Maps assess what truly drives and energizes individuals at work by identifying nine key motivators that influence engagement and satisfaction. Unlike personality tests, they focus on current motivational energy and how it changes over time. Organizations use them to boost performance, align roles with what inspires people, and create teams that are more engaged and resilient.
Talentx7 Assessment
Talentx7 is a scientifically validated tool that measures critical motivational drivers and character strengths that influence how people lead, perform, and engage at work. It helps uncover unique personal motivators and align them with organizational goals. Companies use it to improve talent selection, leadership development, and team alignment.
The Five Behaviors® – Personal Development
Designed for individuals at any level, this assessment builds self-awareness around trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results. Participants learn how their behaviors impact team effectiveness and walk away with strategies to become stronger collaborators.
Thomas-Kilmann Instrument (TKI®) – Individual
The TKI assessment reveals how individuals respond to conflict, highlighting preferred styles and alternative approaches. It helps participants expand their conflict-resolution toolkit, improving their ability to handle challenges productively.
Emotional Intelligence Assessments
Emotional intelligence assessments measure how effectively individuals recognize, understand, and manage their own emotions—as well as how they navigate relationships with others. These tools highlight strengths and development areas across skills like self-awareness, empathy, stress management, and decision-making. Organizations use them to build stronger leaders, enhance team collaboration, and create workplaces that are more resilient, inclusive, and high-performing.
DiSC Emotional Intelligence (Agile EQ)
DiSC Emotional Intelligence (Agile EQ) builds awareness of emotional and social agility—how individuals read situations and respond with emotional intelligence. It highlights areas where people can stretch beyond their comfort zones to adapt more effectively. Organizations use it to strengthen resilience, improve interpersonal effectiveness, and foster cultures of inclusion and adaptability.
EQ-i 2.0
The EQ-i 2.0 is a scientifically validated assessment that measures a person’s emotional intelligence across five key areas: self-perception, self-expression, interpersonal skills, decision-making, and stress management. It provides a clear picture of how effectively someone understands and manages emotions in daily life and at work. Organizations use it to strengthen leadership, improve workplace communication, and enhance overall performance and well-being.
Hogan EQ
The Hogan EQ assessment measures emotional intelligence in the workplace, focusing on how individuals recognize, regulate, and express emotions in ways that support effective relationships and performance. It links emotional intelligence to personality, highlighting strengths and potential derailers under stress. Organizations use it to build leaders who are more self-aware, resilient, and capable of creating positive, high-performing team environments.
Team Assessments
Strong teams don’t happen by chance—they’re built with intention. Our team assessments reveal how people show up together, highlighting opportunities to improve communication, resolve conflict, and align around shared goals.
4 Stages of Psychological Safety – Team
This team-based assessment measures how safe team members feel across the four stages of inclusion, learning, contribution, and challenge. Results highlight team dynamics and provide a roadmap for creating a culture where people can thrive and innovate together.
DiSC® – Team
This assessment helps teams understand each member’s behavioral style, communication preferences, and work approach. By improving awareness of differences, teams build stronger relationships, reduce conflict, and work more effectively together.
DiSC® Work of Leaders – Team
This team-focused version helps leadership groups explore how they collectively approach vision, alignment, and execution. By identifying strengths and gaps, teams create a shared understanding of how to better lead the organization forward.
Hogan Team
The Hogan Team assessment identifies strengths, risks, and values across a team, showing how individual personalities influence collective performance. It equips leaders with insights to align team dynamics, reduce derailers, and accelerate results.
The Five Behaviors® – Team Development
This assessment helps intact teams explore how they operate against the five critical behaviors of trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results. Teams receive practical strategies to strengthen relationships, improve collaboration, and achieve better outcomes.
Thomas-Kilmann Instrument (TKI®) – Team
This team assessment shows how groups collectively approach conflict and where imbalances may exist. By creating shared awareness, teams learn to navigate differences more effectively, strengthen relationships, and reach better outcomes.
Organizational Culture Assessments
Organizational culture assessments measure the shared values, beliefs, and behaviors that shape how work gets done across a company. These tools provide insights into both the current culture and the ideal culture leaders want to create, highlighting gaps that may impact performance, engagement, and innovation. Organizations use them to align culture with strategy, strengthen employee experience, and build workplaces where people and business both thrive.
4 Stages of Psychological Safety Assessment
The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety Assessment measures how safe people feel to be themselves, contribute ideas, learn, and challenge the status quo within a team or organization. Based on Timothy R. Clark’s model, it evaluates inclusion, learner safety, contributor safety, and challenger safety. Organizations use it to pinpoint gaps in trust and create cultures where innovation, engagement, and collaboration thrive.
Organizational Culture Inventory® (OCI®)
The OCI provides a comprehensive view of an organization’s culture by assessing the shared values, norms, and behaviors that shape daily life. Leaders gain actionable insights into how culture impacts performance and strategies to build a more constructive workplace.
Organizational Effectiveness Inventory® (OEI®)
The OEI identifies the systems, structures, and practices that drive—or hinder—organizational performance. Used alongside the OCI, it highlights the levers leaders can pull to strengthen effectiveness, engagement, and long-term results.
WIDE Insights
WIDE Insights is a pioneering assessment that uncovers hidden workplace factors—particularly the role of invisible disabilities and inclusion—that often go unspoken but deeply affect performance and culture. It shifts the conversation from “how to accommodate” to “how can I help,” providing leaders with actionable insights into openness, belonging, and innovation. Companies use it to build cultures of inclusion that drive trust, creativity, and long-term business success.
360-Degree Assessments
360-degree assessments provide leaders with comprehensive feedback by gathering perspectives from managers, peers, direct reports, and other stakeholders. These tools highlight strengths, blind spots, and development opportunities, offering a well-rounded view of performance. Organizations use them to increase self-awareness, align leadership behaviors with organizational expectations, and create targeted development plans that accelerate growth.
360-Degree Assessments (Standard & Custom)
360-degree assessments gather feedback from peers, direct reports, managers, and other stakeholders to provide a full picture of a leader’s strengths and development areas. Standard 360s measure common leadership and management competencies, while custom versions can be tailored to a client’s unique competency model. Organizations use them to increase self-awareness, align leadership behaviors with organizational expectations, and create targeted development plans that accelerate growth.
EQ 360
The EQ 360 builds on the EQ-i 2.0 by adding feedback from peers, managers, and direct reports, offering a complete view of how an individual’s emotional intelligence is perceived by others. This holistic perspective highlights strengths, blind spots, and opportunities for growth. Companies use it to accelerate leadership development, increase self-awareness, and drive meaningful behavioral change.
Hogan 360
The Hogan 360 is a multi-rater feedback tool that evaluates leadership effectiveness by gathering perspectives from peers, managers, and direct reports. Built on Hogan’s decades of personality research, it highlights strengths, derailers, and areas for development while aligning results to key leadership competencies. Organizations use it to increase self-awareness, build leadership agility, and create actionable development plans that drive measurable performance improvement.
LVI 360
The Leadership Versatility Index (LVI 360) is a feedback tool that measures how effectively leaders balance opposing behaviors—such as being forceful vs. enabling, or strategic vs. operational. By highlighting strengths and overused behaviors, it provides practical guidance for greater leadership agility. Organizations use it to help leaders adapt to diverse challenges and increase overall effectiveness.
Leadership Impact (L/I) 360
The Leadership Impact assessment provides leaders with a clear picture of the long-term impact their leadership style has on organizational culture and outcomes. It evaluates both intended and unintended leadership behaviors, showing where leaders’ approaches align—or misalign—with organizational goals. Companies use it to shape leadership strategies that build stronger cultures, improve effectiveness, and drive sustainable results.
Manager Impact (M/I) 360
The Manager Impact assessment measures how managers’ day-to-day behaviors and approaches shape the effectiveness, motivation, and culture of their teams. It highlights both constructive and potentially limiting behaviors, giving managers practical insights into how their style influences others. Organizations use it to develop managers who foster high performance, accountability, and a positive work environment.