Leadership Styles & Climate Surveys
Explore how Korn Ferry's Leadership Styles & Climate Assessment can help improve leadership styles and better align teams.
Improve How Leaders Lead. Transform Team Climate.
Korn Ferry’s Leadership Styles & Climate Assessment gives you a clear, measurable way to connect leadership styles to their team's motivation and commitment.
- Employees in low-rated team climates are 2.6 times more likely to be planning to leave within two years.
- Only 39% of employees in poor climates feel motivated to go above and beyond—compared to 70% in positive climates.
- Just 17% of employees in poor climates report strong intrinsic motivation—compared to 34% in strong climates.
This assessment helps you understand how a leader’s day-to-day styles impact team clarity, trust, engagement, and ultimately performance. It's not about personality traits or competencies. It's about behavior, impact, and outcomes.
Why Organizations Use It
- Diagnose team climate and leadership impact
Uncover how leaders are driving—or hindering— their team’s performance. - Equip leaders to lead with range
Build the ability to shift between directive, visionary, coaching, participative, and more based on what the team needs most. - Improve and engage
Surface signals of burnout, disconnection, or low morale early and address them head-on. - Create a culture of feedback and accountability
Turn insights into action, with feedback to leaders or structured team conversations.
When to Use It
- For underperforming or misaligned teams
- Periods of change, growth, or increased pressure
- Leadership transitions or reorganizations
- To scale a leadership development initiative from one team to many
Case Study: How Strong Leadership Transformed Culture and Outcomes
When the Castle Rock Police Department set out to strengthen leadership across every level of the organization, they turned to Korn Ferry’s Leadership Styles and Climate assessments.
By building trust, embracing feedback, and developing a shared leadership language, the department saw powerful results, on the inside and out:
- 94% of officers say they’re happy at CRPD
- 14% reduction in total crime
- 8.16/10 community trust in police
Leadership matters—and it starts with insight. Download the full story to find out more about the impact that Korn Ferry Leadership Styles and Climate assessments can have.
