Executive

Executive is Coreod’s analytical matrix for leaders responsible for teams, managers, a business function, or an organisation. It is designed for pivotal moments such as a new appointment, expanded responsibilities, team growth, sustained pressure, organisational change, or a new reporting line. It maps current executive functioning and delivers three actionable outcomes: precise language to describe how the leader operates, a clear view of established strengths and pressure points, and an evidence-based foundation for dialogue with teams, senior leadership, or a coach.

Executive integrates four psychometric instruments established in scientific research: the Global Transformational Leadership Scale (GTL) (Carless, Wearing & Mann, 2000) for transformational leadership practices; the PSS-10 (Cohen, Kamarck & Mermelstein, 1983) for perceived stress; the Brief COPE (Carver, 1997) for coping strategies; and the IPIP-NEO-120 (Johnson, 2014) for five personality domains and thirty underlying facets.

Its distinctive value lies in synthesis. The Coreod engine first establishes the executive position by mapping leadership practices against perceived pressure. It then sharpens the interpretation through the thirty personality facets and four conditional cross-dimensional analyses supported by the response pattern. Personality adds depth to the reading, while the central position remains anchored in current practices and experienced pressure.

Results are read at the level of the individual profile, and each questionnaire is placed against a published reference sample (for the IPIP-NEO-120, online respondents aged 21 and over, with norms by sex; Johnson, 2014). The Executive grid thresholds serve as internal rules for analytical orientation. The result is a contextualised map of strengths, pressure points, coping strategies and leadership dynamics.

Executive supports leadership development, operational clarity, and high-quality professional dialogue. Health-related questions call for a dedicated clinical assessment.