Assessments – Renaissance Teams

Measure What Matters for Innovation

Our research-validated assessments reveal individual thinking styles and organizational climate. We use them as standalone products to address specific challenges, or as part of our comprehensive services to develop innovation capacity within your organization

why assessment matters

You Can't Improve What you don't understand

Innovation doesn't happen by accident. It emerges when the right conditions align:

Assessment makes these invisible factors visible, and measureable, so you can take targeted action to strengthen innovation capacity and reduce the friction that often comes from collaborations.

Four Assessment Tools

Different Lenses on Innovation Capacity

We use four research-validated assessments, each measuring different aspects of innovation capability. They're not redundant. They're complementary lenses revealing different dimensions of how innovation happens in your organization.

VIEW Assessment

Understand Problem-Solving Style Preferences

We all have preferences for how we view and facilitate change, process our thinking, and make decisions and trade-offs. The most effective and innovative teams are those who understand, engage and actively get the best from their diverse preferences.

Based on the observation of real teams solving real problems, and backed by over 40 years of research, VIEW will help your team leverage different preferences, play to natural strengths, and flex to business needs. VIEW takes just 10 minutes to complete. The insights are powerful, practical, and immediately applicable.

KAI Assessment

Kirton Adaptation-Innovation Inventory

Discover Creative Style on the Adaptor-Innovator Continuum

KAI assesses where you fall on the adaptor-innovator spectrum. Adaptors prefer working within existing systems to improve them. Innovators prefer challenging paradigms and creating new structures. Neither is better. Both are essential. Teams need both working together.

Foursight assessment

Foursight Thinking Profile

Identify Your Creative Process Preferences

FourSight reveals which phases of creative problem-solving energize you: Clarifying problems, Ideating solutions, Developing concepts, or Implementing plans. Understanding your profile helps you recognize natural contributions and potential blind spots.

SOQ Assessment

Situational Outlook QUestionnaire

Measure Organizational Creative Climate

Organizations often look for culture change as a way to accelerate growth. The problem is that culture is slow to change, because it’s based in deep-seated values, traditions, and beliefs. Climate, however, is the experience of daily life: those patterns of behavior in the work environment that impact how people use their creativity to drive innovation and growth.

The SOQ assesses nine patterns of behavior associated with a climate for creativity, innovation, and change.

Four Assessment Tools

Different Lenses on Innovation Capacity

We use four research-validated assessments, each measuring different aspects of innovation capability. They're not redundant. They're complementary lenses revealing different dimensions of how innovation happens in your organization.

VIEW Assessment

Understand Problem-Solving Style Preferences

We all have preferences for how we view and facilitate change, process our thinking, and make decisions and trade-offs. The most effective and innovative teams are those who understand, engage and actively get the best from their diverse preferences.

Based on the observation of real teams solving real problems, and backed by over 40 years of research, VIEW will help your team leverage different preferences, play to natural strengths, and flex to business needs. VIEW takes just 10 minutes to complete. The insights are powerful, practical, and immediately applicable.

KAI Assessment

Kirton Adaptation-Innovation Inventory

Discover Creative Style on the Adaptor-Innovator Continuum

KAI assesses where you fall on the adaptor-innovator spectrum. Adaptors prefer working within existing systems to improve them. Innovators prefer challenging paradigms and creating new structures. Neither is better. Both are essential. Teams need both working together.

Foursight assessment

Foursight Thinking Profile

Identify Your Creative Process Preferences

FourSight reveals which phases of creative problem-solving energize you: Clarifying problems, Ideating solutions, Developing concepts, or Implementing plans. Understanding your profile helps you recognize natural contributions and potential blind spots.

SOQ Assessment

Situational Outlook QUestionnaire

Measure Organizational Creative Climate

Organizations often look for culture change as a way to accelerate growth. The problem is that culture is slow to change, because it’s based in deep-seated values, traditions, and beliefs. Climate, however, is the experience of daily life: those patterns of behavior in the work environment that impact how people use their creativity to drive innovation and growth.

The SOQ assesses nine patterns of behavior associated with a climate for creativity, innovation, and change.

How These Assessments Work Together

Complementary Lenses, Comprehensive Insight

These four assessments address different dimensions of the 4 P's framework:

Individual Factors

Person

VIEW, KAI, and FourSight reveal thinking preferences, creative styles, and problem-solving approaches. Use them to understand yourself and compose cognitively diverse teams to maximize your ability to tackle a wide range of challenges.

Environmental Factors

Climate / Press

SOQ measures organizational climate – the environment people experience on a day-to-day basis. Use it to diagnose what’s helping or hindering innovation and the teams readiness for change.

Together

Individual assessments show the problem solving preferences of those on your team(s). Climate assessment shows the environment they’re working in. Both matter. Strong thinkers in weak climates underperform. Diverse teams in supportive climates thrive.