LINX Compass
A clear picture of how someone leads
Fifteen dimensions of leadership behavior, scored and written in plain language, for the hire, promote and develop decisions you are making anyway. Start free, no card.
At a glance
Price
Free preview, $99 for the full assessment
Format
Online assessment, scored PDF report per leader
Covers
Fifteen dimensions of leadership behavior
Best for
A hire, promote or develop call you are about to make
Where
The problem
People decisions are the hardest ones
Who to hire, who to promote, and who is sitting in a seat that does not fit them. Those calls shape the company more than most of what is on your desk, and they are usually made on impressions and a good feeling in an interview.
Past performance tells you what already happened, not how somebody behaves at eleven at night when the thing they own is going badly. Getting it wrong is expensive twice: once in the money, and again in the stretch you spend working around the decision.
Nothing in the report is there to be interesting. Every line is there because you have to act on it on Monday.
The product
What LINX Compass actually is
A leadership diagnostic that measures behavior rather than personality, and produces evidence for a decision you have to make either way. You run it yourself at compass.linxconsulting.com.
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All fifteen dimensions scored
A 300-question assessment, scored across every dimension rather than sorted into a type.
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A report per person
One PDF: the scores, what each one means in practice, and where the watch-outs are.
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Archetype and role fit
Your archetype, how well you match it, and how the result reads against the role.
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A free preview first
Your archetype and a snapshot across the pillars, with no card required.
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Self-serve, or assigned
Take it yourself, or assign it to the people you want measured and read what comes back.
What it measures
The fifteen dimensions
Each one is scored and then explained in a sentence a manager can act on.
- CommunicationHow a person gets direction across, how they listen, and whether the message changes for who is in front of them.
- ResponsibilityWhether they own an outcome and follow through on it without being chased.
- ControlHow much they need to direct or oversee, and what that does to the people underneath them.
- FeelingsHow steady they stay under pressure, and what the team sees when they are not.
- AnxietyThe worry patterns that quietly shape decisions once the stakes go up.
- Self-EsteemWhether they back their own judgment without needing somebody senior to confirm it first.
- Risk OrientationWhat they do when the safe call and the right call are not the same call.
- Energy & CapacityWhat actually gives them energy in the work, and how much load they carry before the quality drops.
- Need for StructureHow much process and routine they want, against how much ambiguity they can work in.
- Logical ThinkingHow they weigh evidence and arrive at a conclusion.
- Creative ThinkingOpenness to an approach nobody in the room has tried.
- Motivation & ValuesWhat they are really working for, which is rarely what the job description says.
- Learning & AdaptabilityWhether they change the method when the method stops working.
- World OutlookThe assumptions they carry about people, and how those show up in the way they manage.
- IntegrityThe distance between what they say and what they do when nobody is watching.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Your results are yours. They stay in your account and you can run the assessment again later and compare it against the first one.
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Start with the free preview
No card. You answer a short set of questions and get your archetype, a summary of how you operate, and a snapshot. The full dimension readouts stay locked.
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Take the full assessment, or assign it
The full version is 300 questions and scores all fifteen dimensions. Each person takes it in their own time, unsupervised, from a personal link.
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Read the report
One PDF per person: the scores, what each one means in practice, where the strengths and the watch-outs are, and how the role fits. Written for a manager, not for a psychologist.
Pricing
What it costs
Free preview
$0
This includes:
- Your archetype and how well you match it.
- A summary of how you operate.
- A snapshot across the pillars.
- No card required. The dimension readouts stay locked.
Compass Personal
$99once
This includes:
- Every question, and all fifteen dimensions scored.
- Your archetype and role-fit analysis.
- A PDF you download and keep.
- Not a subscription, and you can retake it.
Enterprise
On a call
This includes:
- Assign the assessment to candidates.
- Track who has finished from a dashboard.
- Volume pricing.
- Onboarding with a person.
Compass is included for every leader in a LINX Leadership program, and LINX Connect+ at the Growth tier covers up to five assessments a year.
The limit
A diagnostic does not change anybody
Compass can tell you, in plain language, that the manager you are about to promote needs more control than the role is going to give them, and that they go quiet under pressure rather than loud. That is worth knowing. By itself it is worth nothing.
The report is evidence for a decision. Somebody still has to make the decision, have the conversation nobody wants to have, and then hold the line on it long after the report has stopped being interesting.
If what you need is the measurement, take the assessment. If what you need is the change, that is LINX Leadership, and Compass is included at both ends of the program so there is a baseline to measure the change against.
Nobody ever improved because they were measured.
Fit
Built for the call you are about to make on a person
A strong fit
- You are about to promote somebody and you would like to be right.
- You have a manager who is close but not there, and you cannot name what is missing.
- You keep hiring for the same role, which usually means the role is the problem.
- Something is going wrong and nobody can say whether it is the person or the structure around them.
Not the right fit
- You are looking for a way around a conversation. A report will not make it easier to say, and it will delay it by two weeks.
- You already know somebody is in the wrong seat. Have the conversation.
- You want the assessment to decide for you. It is one input, alongside the interview and the work history.
Compass is an input to a decision, not a service that runs the business. The rest of the catalogue is easier to place next to it.
Compare every serviceChoosing
Compass, or Leadership?
The measurement, or the program that acts on it. The diagnostic itself is the same either way.
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The measurement
Acting on what it finds
Questions
What owners ask about the assessment
Is this a personality test?
No. It measures behavior and tendency against what leadership roles actually demand, and it is written for a business decision rather than for self-discovery. There is no type and no letter code at the end of it.
How long does it take?
The free preview is short. The full Personal assessment is 300 questions, which is what makes the fifteen dimension scores stable enough to act on.
Who sees the results?
You do, in your account.
Can I use it for hiring?
Yes, as one input beside the interview and the work history, never as the whole decision. It is most useful on the candidates you are already torn between.
Do I need to be a LINX client to use it?
No. Compass is self-serve at compass.linxconsulting.com and you can take it without speaking to anybody. It is also included for every leader on a LINX Leadership program, and Connect+ at the Growth tier covers up to five assessments a year.
Start the conversation
Take it yourself before you assign it to anybody.
The preview is free and takes no card. If you would rather talk it through first, that is thirty minutes and nothing you have to buy at the end of it.
