Imagine this: Your organization has had a key leadership role open for months, and you need to move fast, but you're unsure which of the final candidates will be the best fit.
Or you’re looking to promote a high-potential VP but want to be sure they’re truly ready to expand their responsibilities and take on a larger role.
Maybe you’ve recently welcomed a new leader onboard and want to set them up for success.
In all of these scenarios, in-depth leadership assessment can be your most powerful ally.
The Role of Leadership Assessment in Your Talent Strategy
At The Violet Group (TVG), we know that pre-hire, promotion, and development assessments are not simply a check-the-box activity—they’re a critical component of your strategy that enables you to make informed, data-driven talent decisions aligned with your organization’s long-term goals.
In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations need leaders who can adapt, make strategic decisions, and motivate their teams to generate commercial impact. However, identifying those leaders is often more challenging and complex than it seems.
Traditional processes (e.g., internal interview panels, talent reviews, or one-off pre-employment tests) don’t provide the depth and rigor needed to comprehensively evaluate a person’s leadership potential, decision-making style, or cultural fit.
This leaves many companies in a difficult position: lacking a clear sense of their internal bench-strength, facing uncertainty regarding the state of successors for their critical leadership roles (i.e., are they "ready now?" Do they have key gaps that need to be addressed?), and at risk of selecting the wrong candidates in their hiring process.
Why is this so important?
The cost of a poor selection decision, or missing out on a high-potential leader, has significant business impact.
In fact, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) estimates that poor hiring decisions cost an organization up to five times the candidate’s annual salary, factoring in the investment in recruitment, training, and lost productivity.
Moreover, leaders in critical and highly visible roles have an undue impact on organizational and team culture. They shape people's day-to-day workplace experiences, and drive engagement, retention, and performance across levels.
Making the right hiring and promotion decisions for your key leadership roles is crucial.
How We Can Help
As a firm founded by highly trained Industrial/Organizational Psychologists with extensive expertise in executive assessment, TVG leverages a rigorous, data-driven, and evidence-based approach to instill confidence in your decision-making.
Our assessments not only help you select and promote world-class talent but also provide your hiring managers and HR teams with the insights to effectively onboard, develop, and retain your best and brightest people.
A Closer Look at The Violet Group’s Approach to Assessment
In partnering with TVG to deliver leadership assessment, your team will experience an engaging, evidence-based, and thorough process.
Guided by a seasoned and educated assessor and coach, your organization and key hiring sponsors will:
Offer context on the role and specify performance expectations for each leader to be assessed
Receive a summary of strengths, development needs, and suggestions to support each leader assessed
Verbally debrief assessment findings with a TVG consultant
Obtain valuable data on each leader, including a clear evaluation of potential, ratings against key leadership expectations, and insights into judgment and decision-making
Furthermore, your candidates will:
Reflect on their career and leadership journey, achievements and challenges, pivotal moments in their learning and growth, and their future goals and aspirations in a 1:1 behavioral interview
Complete a suite of well-validated and research-backed online assessment tools
Receive a hands-on, guided experience from start-to-finish
If hired, or for internal candidates, receive in-depth assessment feedback with an experienced TVG consultant to guide their development and onboarding
What Differentiates The Violet Group (TVG)
TVG utilizes a powerful combination of evidence-based and time-tested tools for our leadership assessments. This allows our team of PhD-level psychologists to build a deep understanding of your leaders and provide holistic, data-driven evaluations of your candidates, whether they’re internal or external.
Having conducted thousands of assessments across our team, we are confident these tools will equip you and your leaders with the insights needed to make smart, strategic hiring decisions and drive your organization’s long-term success and development.
When you work with TVG, you’re not just getting an assessment; you’re gaining a partner with a full suite of solutions dedicated to helping your organization thrive.
Whether it's providing context on performance expectations or delivering a detailed assessment debrief, our team ensures your assessment process is seamless, insightful, and impactful.
Ready to bring this level of strategic clarity to your talent strategy?
Partner with us to experience a rigorous, evidence-based process that not only assesses your leaders and team but also supports their development and growth.
Stay tuned for the next installment in our assessment blog series, where we’ll highlight a case study demonstrating how we integrated assessments into a client organization.