Milestone ACL Testing

ACL Testing

ACL Testing helps you find and keep and coach your star performers for even greater success. ACL helps identifying traits that equal success in your unique corporate culture.

Combining the power of clinical capability with the simplicity of professional and business application the Adjective Check List or ACL is the basis for powerful insight, personal change, and organizational impact. Combined with experienced organizational consulting the ACL can be used to facilitate individual leader growth, team development, cultural identification and change, development planning and coaching, and talent selection.

According to the authors of the ACL, “although the ACL was initially developed for use by observers in describing others, it can be used in self-description… in addition, the ACL can be employed to characterize the ideal self, a future or past self, a legendary personage, a geographical region, a commercial product, an idea, a belief, a theory, or almost any other thing… The range of application, in fact, is almost limitless, and new and unforeseen uses of the method await only the creativity of future researchers” (Gough & Heilbrun, 1983).

It is exactly this commitment to ongoing research that supports the validity of the ACL as a tool for affecting business change. Simply put the information and perspective provided by the ACL is true and accurate! This ability to provide supportable and believable data despite potential interference of personal bias and agenda is unique to the ACL in its application as a tool for affecting organizational change.

Disarmingly Simple – Comprehensively Precise

Unfortunately, the traditional approach to using clinical instruments for professional application has involved over-simplifying the results to make the output more generic and understandable in scope. This approach, while attractive on the surface, marginalizes the ultimate result and impact of the use of the instrument. The ACL derives its power from the fact that the testing process is as simple as choosing appropriate adjectives from a checklist of 300 choices. As there is no evident connection between the choices and the derived outputs the process insulates against a distortion of results by participants. Additionally, as the results are able to address 37 distinct scales of personality the results provide granular clarity of precise characteristics impacting organizational or personal performance.

Flexibility of Application

Due to the depth and scope of the data gathered from the ACL it is possible to provide reporting that is comprehensive to the level of clinical insight and deep personality issues and perceptions. However, using the aggregate Five Factor analysis it can easily be summarized in broad terms for easier use and consumption in large team environments.

Additionally, as a result of the variance in perspectives from which this can be completed, the ACL is powerful in its use as a 360° review and testing instrument. The ability to remove bias and personal antipathy from any 360° process is critical to both accuracy and securing employee commitment to change.

When utilized to evaluate culture and for selection purposes the comprehensiveness of the instrument allows for a precision and identifying and testing for both critical and general personality characteristics and lead to success based on EACH CLIENTS UNIQUE CULTURE! This is powerful and differs significantly from approaches the attempt to profile based on generic or broad industry characteristics.

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