Entrepreneurship is the genesis of business innovation and growth. All entrepreneurial activity starts at the individual level and some individuals have much more potential for it than others. Disruptive innovation threatens every business in every sector,and happens with increasing frequency and speed. The only effective response to the threat is to build the capacity to innovate yourself.
META is a state-of-the-art psychometric test that identifies entrepreneurial potential in order to help businesses nurture and retain their entrepreneurial talent. On the other hand, the META Disruptive Talent is a psychometric measure designed to help businesses identify, understand, and retain people with the ability to drive business innovation.
ASSESSMENT SCALES
The META includes the following scales:
Entrepreneurial Creativity: The ability to generate innovative business ideas
Opportunism: The tendency to spot new business opportunities
Proactivity: The energy and willingness to get stuff done right away
Vision: The tendency to have a meaningful mission in life and to see the bigger picture
The Disruptive Talent includes the following scales:
IDEATION: The generation of innovative business ideas
Curiosity: The strong desire to know and learn new things
Creativity: The ability to generate original ideas, to create and invent
Belief: The propensity to act on conviction,rather than trying to please others
EXECUTION: The realisation or application of innovative business ideas
Opportunism: The tendency to spot new business opportunities
Proactivity: The energy and willingness to get stuff done straight away
Resilience: The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties-toughness; determination
LEADERSHIP: Leading innovative people and teams
Vision: The tendency to have a meaningful mission in life and to see the bigger picture
Authority: The tendency to take charge of situations; to command, control and direct
Stability: The ability to remain calm and optimistic under pressure
DERAILERS: Behaviours that may have a detrimental impact on a person’s performance and career progress.
Hubris: Excessive pride or self-confidence
Mercurial:The degree to which an individual demonstrates a ‘mercurial temperament’ (impulsivity, unpredictability, and eccentricity)
Dominance: The degree to which an individual demonstrates overbearing behaviour
AREAS OF APPLICATION
The META can be usedfor the following purposes:
Select people with genuine entrepreneurial potential, not just to start businesses but to grow them
Develop their potential: building on strengths, managing weaknesses, and increasing self-awareness
Build entrepreneurial teams –put together the right combination of talents to maximise the chances of success
Benchmark them against global norms
The Disruptive Talent can be used for the following purposes:
Recruit-and select people with the potential to generate, execute and lead business innovation
Identify the hidden disruptive talent in your organisation and provide a framework for its development
Build high-performing teams, ensuring the best possible combination of people,in order to maximise creative thinking, innovation and growth
REPORT OPTIONS
The META has the following software reports available:
Meta Profile Report: This report provides detailed analysis and interpretation of the participants’s cores in each of the dimensions -Creativity, Opportunism, Proactivity and Vision -both in termsof behavioural implications and personal development.
Meta Managers Report: Designed to be used by the manager. The report provides a profile of the candidate’s scores and implications that are useful for the manager in developmental processes with the candidate.
Disruptive Talent Profile Report: The report has been designed to help businesses identify, understand and retain people with the ability to drive business innovation.
SOUTH AFRICAN RESEARCH
JVR Psychometrics welcomes the opportunity to partner with clients in conducting research. Please feel welcome to contact us should you consider using this assessment for research purposes.
Product Info
Training
Optional
Age range
16 years and older
Administration time
Not specified
Norms
Global and SA Norms
Languages
English
Administration Platform
Online
Integrated reports
None
Author
Gorkan Ahmetoglu and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Publisher
Meta Limited
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