Leadership team Analysis
Introduction to Leadership Team Analysis
Create stronger and more balanced leadership teams
In today’s complex business landscape, strong leadership teams are essential for organisational success. But what truly makes a team effective? It is not only about individual skills and experience; it is about how leaders complement each other, collaborate, and manage their differences in practice.
The leadership Team Analysis provides a clear overview of how your leadership team operates today and where there is room for growth. It builds awareness of how each member naturally contributes through their role and personal style, and how these factors influence decisions, communication, and overall team dynamics.
Leadership teams are under constant pressure to deliver results, create engagement, maintain structure, and drive development. Differences in leadership approaches can sometimes lead to tension, inefficient decision-making, or an imbalance between daily operations and strategic growth.
Understanding both your own and others’ roles and styles leads to:
More effective leadership teams: Avoid overlaps, imbalances, and blind spots in teamwork.
Better collaboration and communication: Leaders who recognise each other’s strengths and challenges work more effectively together.
Stronger decision-making: Teams with clearly defined roles make faster and more informed decisions.
Higher motivation: When leaders work in roles that match their preferences, they thrive and create greater value.
In essence, a strong leadership team is not built by assembling the best individuals, but by creating the best possible collaboration between them.
The leadership Team Analysis builds on IPA Nordic’s previous team models and provides a deeper understanding of how leaders balance two key dimensions:
Functional roles: The responsibilities they naturally assume within the team.
Personal styles: The ways they prefer to work, communicate, and make decisions.
By combining these dimensions, the analysis reveals both the structural role a leader plays and the personal approach that shapes their behaviour and impact on the team.
Optimise collaboration: Increase awareness of how different roles and styles complement or challenge each other.
Identify strengths and blind spots: Understand where the team excels and where development is needed.
Enhance decision-making: Discover how differences in approach influence execution and strategic thinking.
Support leadership development: Help leaders refine their style and strengthen their role within the team.
The Leadership Team Analysis is a further development of IPA Nordic’s original ideas and models around the concepts of Role and Style.
The new version was developed in 2021 and 2022 as part of IPA Nordic’s ongoing effort to adapt our analyses to the rapid changes occurring in the modern workplace.
IPA Nordic’s approach is rooted in Integrative Psychology, a branch of psychology that connects personality theory with real-world application. This perspective allows us to view personality as a dynamic system, one that can be understood through multiple lenses and measured empirically.
Through the IPA Analysis, we have developed a classic, evidence-based personality model that captures the “tip of the iceberg” of human behaviour. Our analyses systematically register behavioural patterns that can be defined as personality traits. This behaviour-based tradition remains a cornerstone of psychological measurement and continues to guide our development of reliable and practical analytical tools.
