The GreyScale (TGS) assessment is designed for 21st-century leadership, encompassing gender balance and diversity. TGS also stands apart in four other ways:
Leadership
Assessment
Practical Outcomes: TGS delivers practical, useful outcomes
to improve leadership effectiveness and reduce
By integrating these elements, TGS provides a comprehensive tool for developing balanced, effective, and safe leadership in the modern workplace, offering tangible benefits for your organization
TGS is critical to organizations by ensuring compliance with psychological health and safety (PHS) regulations and enhancing leadership selection and development.
Through its proprietary
Effective leadership selection and development is essential for a positive culture, driving engagement, attracting talent, and enhancing performance. TGS provides insights into leaders' personalities and their impact on
Investing in TGS enhances PHS compliance, leadership effectiveness, and overall organizational success.
Effective leaders thrive in stressful situations, handle complexity and ambiguity, and manage challenges with minimal
TGS is critical as it helps identify effective and
Recruiters must provide thoroughly vetted candidate's for leadership roles, as effective leaders drive success by shaping culture, strategy, and performance. Poor vetting can lead to leadership failures, decreased morale, business disruption, and damaged reputations, significantly impacting both the recruitment firm and the client. 75% of firms use personality tests for senior roles, but candidate misrepresentation is common, resulting in poor hires and increased workplace risks.
The TGS assessment is critical as it solves this by detecting 99% of inauthentic responses through consistency, randomness, and deception scales.
TGS ensures candidate's are genuine, preventing destructive individuals from infiltrating organizations and providing effective leadership.
We have been on a seven-year journey to design, validate, and launch
an assessment designed for 21st-century leadership. One that
encompasses genuine diversity and addresses several other core
issues with existing leadership assessments. Welcome to The
GreyScale, a new way of assessing leaders' effectiveness,
2017
We met at a leadership conference, and although we came from different backgrounds, we shared a common frustration: Leadership assessment, a $13 billion industry, still relies on outdated 1920s methods despite the fact leadership has evolved dramatically with market dynamics, gender equality, diversity, workplace culture, and changing regulations.
Most assessments lack deep insights into a leader's personality, don't check
We founded The GreyScale to provide a modern, science-based assessment that addresses today's complex leadership challenges.
2018
Leveraging Paul's expertise in psychological assessments and our combined experience working with thousands of leaders around the world, we created The GreyScale to assess the level of dark personality traits that contribute to leadership effectiveness as well as toxicity -
Our beta test of 273 leaders identified 'goldilocks zones' where a leader's dark personality traits are highly effective in specific situations.
We also identified the dangerous levels where leaders become
2021
Further analysis of our beta test results identified how a leader's virtues, motivations, attachments, and ego defenses amplify or contain their dark personality - enhancing their effectiveness or toxicity in certain situations.
We mapped 11 psychological 'containment factors', including
This helped us identify 'winning' and 'risky' combinations of personality and containment factors that make leaders highly effective or highly
We tested this new reporting function with 42 leaders.
2023
At this stage of our journey, we realized the need for a CEO to develop and implement an effective go-to-market strategy.
We brought Kristian on board due to his proven experience in scaling start-ups and global business and his academic background - an MSc in psychology and published work in leadership and mental health. This allowed the Founders to focus on innovation and product development, maintaining our core vision, values, and unique value proposition.
Kristian focuses on driving growth in our global markets and steering the company toward long-term success.
2024
Seven years after we conceived the idea of a better way to assess leadership effectiveness,
We partnered with Timedoor to develop a next-generation website and user interface that embodies our vision of modern leadership assessment. This marks a significant step in our journey to provide a modern, effective, and science-based assessment tailored to today's complex leadership challenges.
In the coming months, we will announce new products designed to support modern leaders and leadership in organizations further.
2017
We met at a leadership conference, and although we came from different backgrounds, we shared a common frustration: Leadership assessment, a $13 billion industry, still relies on outdated 1920s methods despite the fact leadership has evolved dramatically with market dynamics, gender equality, diversity, workplace culture, and changing regulations.
Most assessments lack deep insights into a leader's personality, don't check
We founded The GreyScale to provide a modern, science-based assessment that addresses today's complex leadership challenges.
2018
Leveraging Paul's expertise in psychological assessments and our combined experience working with thousands of leaders around the world, we created The GreyScale to assess the level of dark personality traits that contribute to leadership effectiveness as well as toxicity -
Our beta test of 273 leaders identified 'goldilocks zones' where a leader's dark personality traits are highly effective in specific situations.
We also identified the dangerous levels where leaders become
2021
Further analysis of our beta test results identified how a leader's virtues, motivations, attachments, and ego defenses amplify or contain their dark personality - enhancing their effectiveness or toxicity in certain situations.
We mapped 11 psychological 'containment factors', including
This helped us identify 'winning' and 'risky' combinations of personality and containment factors that make leaders highly effective or highly
We tested this new reporting function with 42 leaders.
2023
At this stage of our journey, we realized the need for a CEO to develop and implement an effective go-to-market strategy.
We brought Kristian on board due to his proven experience in scaling start-ups and global business and his academic background - an MSc in psychology and published work in leadership and mental health. This allowed the Founders to focus on innovation and product development, maintaining our core vision, values, and unique value proposition.
Kristian focuses on driving growth in our global markets and steering the company toward long-term success.
2024
Seven years after we conceived the idea of a better way to assess leadership effectiveness,
We partnered with Timedoor to develop a next-generation website and user interface that embodies our vision of modern leadership assessment. This marks a significant step in our journey to provide a modern, effective, and science-based assessment tailored to today's complex leadership challenges.
In the coming months, we will announce new products designed to support modern leaders and leadership in organizations further.
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
