TGS is a cutting-edge leadership assessment designed for 21st-century leadership.

Because Effective Leadership Isn't Black and White

How TGS Can Help You

If you are a Leader

If you are a Leader

An effective leader should thrive in stressful situations, deal well with complexity and ambiguity, seem to have little anxiety about tackling difficult challenges, and cope with internal and external volatility and uncertainty. The presence of the 'Dark' personality trait combinations underpins this.

However, suppose these same dark personality traits are extreme or not contained. In that case, they can be toxic and negatively impact the four critical psychosocial risk factors— Anxiety, Stimulation, Conformity, and Ambiguity (ASCA) —and create unhealthy work environments, leading to reduced morale, decreased performance, and high staff turnover.

Our research shows that leaders are born, but effective leaders are made. Effective leaders are self-aware, play to their strengths and mitigate their weaknesses.

TGS can help you become a more effective leader by giving insight into your effective and toxic personality combinations and how you impact people and performance

If you are a Board Member

If you are a Board Member

As a board member, psychological health and safety (PHS) regulation compliance by managing psychosocial risk factors is vital for long-term organizational success.

Legal obligations demand strict adherence to these standards, with potential penalties and personal liability for lapses.

Ethically, PHS compliance safeguards employee well-being and enhances organizational reputation, making it more appealing to top talent. Financially, compliance reduces risks associated with fines, costly compensation claims, and productivity losses due to mental health issues. Commitment to PHS compliance is a legal and ethical responsibility and a strategic choice to protect the organization's financial stability and future success.

TGS can help you reduce potential compliance concerns by identifying potential leadership toxicity and demonstrating how the leader's personality combination impacts people and performance through the four critical psychosocial risk factors— Ambiguity, Stimulation, Conformity, and Anxiety (ASCA).

If you are a HR / Talent decision-maker

If you are a HR / Talent decision-maker

The role of HR in placing the proper leader is crucial.

An effective leader will drive employee engagement, foster a positive work culture, enhance productivity and attract other top talent. Conversely, choosing an ineffective leader can lead to workplace toxicity, resulting in high employee turnover, reduced morale, and decreased performance. Such toxicity damages employees' well-being and harms the organization's reputation, making attracting and retaining top talent difficult.

Therefore, HR's role in selecting effective leaders is critical in shaping a successful, productive, and sustainable workplace environment.

TGS can help you identify potentially effective and toxic leaders as part of your recruitment or development process by providing insights into their winning and risky personality combinations and their impact on the four critical psychosocial risk factors - Anxiety, Stimulation, Conformity and Ambiguity (ASCA) which affects peoples and performance.

If you are Recruiter

If you are Recruiter

Recruiters are responsible for supplying suitable and thoroughly vetted candidate's for leadership positions briefed to them.

Effective leaders drive an organization's success, shaping its culture, strategy, and performance. Inadequate vetting or mismatched candidate's can result in leadership failures, leading to decreased morale, business disruption, and performance. The consequences of a wrong candidate placement are significant, impacting the reputation and bottom line of the recruitment firm and the business where the candidate is placed.

Recruiters must be able to ensure candidate's possess the qualities necessary for effective leadership.

TGS can help catch out the supersmart psychopaths who are gaming the system by detecting 99% of 'inauthentic' responses in the assessment.

Key Reasons to Use TGSLeadership Solutions

11 factors can sabotage your leadership career.

Containment factors moderate or amplify your leadership behavior. They are the difference between effective, ineffective, and toxic leadership.

The Secret Traits of Leaders Everyone Wants to Follow

Are toxic leaders hiding in your business? The GreyScale can tell you.

You must know this to comply with the ISO 45003:2021 international standards on workplace psychosocial health and safety risks.

The Secret Traits of Leaders Everyone Wants to Follow

Are toxic candidates slipping through the cracks? The GreyScale can tell you.

Our assessment detects 99% of inauthentic responses, reducing the possibility of hires that harm performance and increase workplace psychosocial risk.

The Secret Traits of Leaders Everyone Wants to Follow

11 factors can sabotage your leadership career.

Containment factors moderate or amplify your leadership behavior. They are the difference between effective, ineffective, and toxic leadership.

The Secret Traits of Leaders Everyone Wants to Follow

Are toxic leaders hiding in your business? The GreyScale can tell you.

You must know this to comply with the ISO 45003:2021 international standards on workplace psychosocial health and safety risks.

The Secret Traits of Leaders Everyone Wants to Follow

Are toxic candidates slipping through the cracks? The GreyScale can tell you.

Our assessment detects 99% of inauthentic responses, reducing the possibility of hires that harm performance and increase workplace psychosocial risk.

The Secret Traits of Leaders Everyone Wants to Follow

About the TGS Assessment and Its Outputs

The TGS Assessment provides insight into leaders' five dark personalities and containment factors, their effective, ineffective, and toxic combinations, and how these personality traits impact four critical psychosocial risk factors, ASCA, which in turn impacts people and performance

01

Taking the Assessment

The assessment consists of 173 questions, and it takes less than 25 minutes to complete. It is forensically checked for respondent authenticity. If there is any concern about authenticity, the participant will be asked to retake the assessment.

Find Out More
Taking the Assessment

02

Authenticity Check

TGS detects 99% of inauthentic responses. The assessment results highlight inauthentic results after forensically checking for consistency, randomness, and deception.

Find Out More
Authenticity Check

03

Your Leadership Assets and Achilles Heel

The assessment provides insight into your Winning & Risky personality combinations, which consist of the effective, ineffective and toxic elements of your dark personality traits with the 11 containment factors.

Find Out More
Your Leadership Assets and Achilles Heel

04

Your ASCA Profile

Understand your psychosocial risk profile — anxiety, stimulation, conformity, and ambiguity (ASCA) which impacts people and performance.

Find Out More
Your ASCA Profile

05

How Your Psychosocial ASCA Profile Impacts People

Gain insight into how a leader's ASCA profile positively or negatively impacts the leader's interactions with team members. Receive actionable insights on amplifying their effectiveness or mitigating any potential toxicity to their team's psychosocial well-being.

Find Out More
How Your Psychosocial ASCA Profile Impacts People

06

How Your Psychosocial ASCA Profile Impacts Performance

Gain insight into how a leaders ASCA profile positively or negatively impacts their performance in the problem-solving process. Receive actionable insights on amplifying their effectiveness or mitigating any potential toxicity in the problem-solving process

Find Out More
How Your Psychosocial ASCA Profile Impacts Performance

See a Sample TGS Assessment Report

Curious about what your leadership assessment report will look like? See a Sample Report and discover how The GreyScale provides in-depth insights into your leadership style.

View Sample Report

Solutions That Meet Your Unique Needs

TGS provides a variety of solutions for individual leaders, business organizations and recruitment firms. Our solutions are built around two assessments - The TGS Core Leadership Assessment and the TGS Team Assessment. These can be used separately or combined together delivering powerful and actionable insights to increase leadership effectiveness; to identify and mitigate leadership toxicity and to improve leadership candidate suitability.