Today I took the Organizational Champions ECChO assessment to see where I measured up in the grand schema of it all in comparison to other champions. I’ll review my experience and results below but get to the gravy first. Here’s the link:

http://www.championseccho.com/

Review:
On user experience I was very pleased. The sliding scales allow for a better description of my feelings one way or another. If you’re like me you tend to fall between the “some of the time” and “almost always” radio buttons on most online surveys. I really liked being able to be 71% of the time sure.

Also, the assessment was quick. You can tell the questions were very well thought out. There was very little, if any, repetition of concept and the wealth of information given was impressive considering the assessment took less than 5 minutes to complete.

Upon completion I was once again impressed; this time on the quality of result product. Rather than a screen result that you might print or have to take screen shots of, I was provided a pdf. Very nice for us paper conscious types. And in case you forget to save your results, they are also emailed to you with along with an auto-created account. Nice additional touch but on to the results.

Results:
First click here to see my official results:

First note I haven’t paid for the extended report yet but that will follow for the added coaching points in improving my scores.

My overall score was an 80, which doesn’t hurt my feelings too terribly bad. I’m primarily lacking in enlightenment and I feel that enlightenment is a journey that I’m only now pursuing in earnest.

Basically my room for improvement in each of the four categories breaks down like this:

1. Enlightened – 74 score
   a.  I need to be more vocal and comfortable when asserting myself
   b. I need to be less temperamental and less volatile in tone to others
   c. I need to seek out a wider variety of input from others, proactively
   d. I need to curb my frustration when weaknesses are pointed out.
2. Connected – 83 score
   a. I don’t need to sacrifice relational value for progress
   b. I need to not feel the need to justify or explain my actions
   c. I need to work toward success in fully engaging others in my cause or mission
3. Change Maker – 82 score
   a. I need to be confident in my ability to influence those beyond my direct authority
   b. I need to remain comfortable and optimistic when significant changes occur
4. Opportunity Minded – 80 score
   a. I need to be more open to & ask for feedback and be more open to the possibilities available through change.
   b. I need to trust others to perform to my standards.

So there you have it. My shortcomings and what I’m focusing my attention on from this point on. I’d really like to discuss this. Have you had your ECChO? Get it done and give me a buzz. Let’s talk.