The Making Others Great Assessment
The way you develop others may feel natural to you. It may feel different to them. This assessment shows your pattern across eight everyday choices, such as ask or tell and support or stretch, so you can decide when to offer more guidance, more challenge or more room.
Add the 360 view to hear what the people you develop would welcome from you.
USD 39Your self-assessment, with your report right away. The 360 view adds USD 59 (USD 98 together) whenever you like.
EUR 35. The 360 view adds EUR 53 (EUR 88 together).
Sample profile
Your viewThe view of others (360)Illustration with sample data
Statements
32, rated from 1 to 10
Time
10 to 15 minutes
Self-report
Right after you finish
360 view
At least 5 people
Languages
English and German
Does this sound familiar?
Small choices like these add up over months to how the people around you grow. Most of us make them on instinct, because our preferences feel like the obvious way to help. This assessment makes them visible.
What you take away
Recognize which approaches you tend to reach for when you develop others, and find a name for them.
Notice where a familiar approach may be worth adapting to the person or the moment, and move toward the other pole when it helps.
Bring a specific question to your next development conversation. The report ends with questions you can use the same week.
Compare your view with what the people you develop say they would welcome from you, and learn where they would like you more often.
Inside the report
A name for your current mix of preferences, and a starting point for widening your range.
Bars show where you lean, with an arrow for where you would sometimes like to be. Below each axis, two short bars show how strongly each side applies on its own.
In the 360 report, your view and theirs stand side by side on every axis, with what they wish from you and the biggest gaps.
The report turns what you see into conversations you can start the same week.
See it for yourself: sample self-assessment report and sample 360 report.
Why it matters
Leaders, teachers, parents and coaches shape growth in many small moments: a question asked, a stretch set, a step back.
Supporting and Challenging, Telling and Asking, Structure and Flexibility: each pole helps in the right moment. The report shows where you lean, so you can move toward the other pole when a person or situation calls for it.
With the 360 view, at least five people rate the same statements about you and show where they would like you more often. The distance between your view and theirs often opens the most useful conversation.
The statements describe tendencies, and you can act differently at any time. The report links your insight to the ACE it! Method, so it turns into a next step.
The eight axes
Each axis has two valuable poles. Two statements describe each pole, four per axis, 32 in total over the eight axes.
Axis 1
Do you give backing first, or set a stretch first?
Axis 2
Do you stay near to support, or give room to find the way?
Axis 3
Do you share what you would do, or ask until the other person finds ideas?
Axis 4
Do you let people think, or fix the next step early?
Axis 5
Do you talk about tasks and results, or about the whole person?
Axis 6
Do you work with agendas and plans, or stay open and adapt?
Axis 7
Do you name what can improve, or what already works?
Axis 8
Do you offer a second chance, or follow up on agreements promptly?
How it works
10 to 15 minutes
You rate each statement from 1 (not at all true) to 10 (completely true), or choose “I don’t know”. Then you tell us for eight topics where you would sometimes like more movement.
Right after you finish, and by email
Your preference pattern, your profile on eight axes with the direction you wish for, your wishes, and a table with all numbers in the appendix.
Optional, USD 59 (EUR 53)
At least five people answer the same statements about you and tell you what they wish from you. You set the deadline. The second report lays your view and theirs side by side, shows the biggest gaps and their wishes, and includes questions for your conversation with them.
Who it is for
Research Foundations
Research on coaching, feedback, motivation and learning has gained considerable weight over the past decades, and its relevance for leaders, teachers and parents keeps growing.
Autoris developed the eight axes and the 32 statements in house. The works below inform what we ask and how the report helps you turn your pattern into a next conversation.
People grow most when they experience autonomy, competence and relatedness. Axes such as Staying close and Letting go, or Telling and Asking, describe how you support these needs in others.
Some of the key works: Ryan and Deci (2000, 2017)
Research on tutoring describes how helpers adjust support and challenge to what a learner can do next, and step back as the learner gains skill.
Some of the key works: Wood, Bruner and Ross (1976)
A meta-analysis finds positive effects of coaching on individual outcomes such as performance, well-being and goal-directed self-regulation. Asking questions that help people find their own answers is a core coaching practice.
Some of the key works: Theeboom, Beersma and van Vianen (2014); Whitmore (1992)
Feedback research shows that the kind of feedback matters. Feedback on the task and on how to improve helps more than feedback on the person, and effects vary with the situation. The axes Correcting and Recognizing and Task-focused and Personal reflect this range.
Some of the key works: Kluger and DeNisi (1996); Hattie and Timperley (2007)
Comparing your own view with the views of the people around you shows where self-perception and their experience differ. The optional 360 view applies this research to how you develop others.
Some of the key works: Fleenor, Smither, Atwater, Braddy and Sturm (2010)
The statements describe tendencies. Personality research finds that people vary their behavior from situation to situation around a personal average, so a preference is a starting point for choosing differently.
Some of the key works: Fleeson (2001)
Your report describes where you lean today and gives you a starting point for reflection and conversation.
Price
Self-assessment
USD 39
EUR 35
Your report with preference pattern, eight axes and wishes, right away and by email.
360 view
USD 59 more
EUR 53 more
At least five people rate you. USD 98 (EUR 88) together with the self-assessment.
Organizations, programs and partners receive access codes that lower the price or cover it in full. You enter yours at the start, or on the access code page.
Questions
The 32 statements and the eight wishes take about ten to fifteen minutes. You can answer on your phone or your laptop.
Each person you invite answers the same 32 statements, which takes about ten to fifteen minutes. You set the deadline, so the answers can come in over a few days, and your 360 report is ready once at least five people have responded.
The self-assessment costs USD 39 (EUR 35). The 360 view adds USD 59 (EUR 53), which makes USD 98 (EUR 88) in total. Access codes can lower the price or cover it in full.
Preferences are tendencies in how you like to develop others. They can change, and you can act differently at any time. The assessment describes where you lean today.
Each pole of an axis helps in the right moment, so every profile has its strengths. The report shows where you lean and where more range would serve the people you develop.
You see their answers only as group results, and only once at least five respondents have answered. Free-text comments appear without names, once at least three respondents have written one.
English and German today. More languages are in preparation.
The assessment stands on its own. It goes hand in hand with the book Making Others Great (Autoris Press).
Yes. Organizations enroll groups with access codes. Ask Ati Help on this page and we will set it up.
Ati Help answers questions on every page of the site.
Ten to fifteen minutes, your report right away, and a clear next conversation.
Start the assessment, USD 39Have an access code?EUR 35
For teams and organizations, book a call.