The cornerstone of the Global Leadership Matrix (GLeaM) Program is a free online portal, which makes available a diverse collection of assessment tools and content to help individuals and organizations improve their leadership ability. The site offers a suite of research-validated tools, including Network Analysis, Time Management, and Motivational Style, along with personalized feedback across a range of vital leadership competencies. Participants can compare their results to other GLeaM users in a variety of industries around the globe.
The anonymous data collected from the GLeaM website enables further research by a team of distinguished faculty from Columbia's Business School, Sociology Department, and Psychology Department. This research will be published in academic journals and will inform academic thinking on global leadership at institutions around the world. Additional content, including tools related to personality and culture, and a video library with applied leadership stories and tips from faculty and business leaders, will appear in 2014.
Motivational Style Assessment
Understand the science of motivation so you can drive yourself and others toward success.
Understanding human motivation is essential to great leadership. The best leaders understand how to keep themselves motivated and they understand how to motivate others, whether they are team members, bosses, or business partners. The challenge is that everyone is motivated differently and certain tasks or goals lend themselves to particular motivational styles.
The GLeaM Motivational Style Tool will help you discover your own motivational style and will give you tips on how to self-regulate in order to excel at particular tasks and goals. It will also offer insights that will enable you as a leader to motivate others through framing, incentives, and personnel/task assignments.
Network Assessment Tool
Assess and improve your professional network in order to advance your career.
One contact or one connection can make or break a career; it can even change the world. Moreover, different careers require different types of networks and building the right network for your professional goals requires time. In order to make the most of your connections and build the optimal relationships for your career, you need to understand your current network.
GLeaM has developed a cutting-edge social network analysis tool that allows you to visualize your unique network map and receive personalized advice. Presented in an intuitive and user-friendly format, our analysis provides relevant and actionable feedback. Not only will you be able to learn about your specific network characteristics and how they compare to other users from across the globe, but you will also learn which network styles are best suited for your professional goals.
Time Management Tool
Learn how to better allocate your time to achieve your professional goals.
"Time is money," the saying goes. Top performing leaders are meticulous about how they spend both. Does the way you allocate your time reflect your strategy to achieving your professional goals? Research suggests the answer is probably not. For example, when many executives actually compare their top priorities to how they allocate their time they are shocked by the misallocation of their time and resources.
The GLeaM Time Management Application prompts you to be explicit about the categories of work you do, as well as your specific tasks, and helps you focus on what really matters for achieving your professional goals. The dynamic, custom feedback report assesses your current time allocation and illuminates changes you need to make in order to be more effective and efficient with your time.