Inclusive Leaders Assessment (ILA) FAQs

General FAQs

  • On the assessment launch date, you will receive an email invitation with a link to create and access your participant portal. From there you can start your ILA and nominate reviewers.

    To learn more about the participant dashboard, login, and nomination process, watch this video.

  • Participants and reviewers are asked to consent to Greatheart Consulting’s and Envisia’s (the ILA software platform) privacy policies prior to beginning the ILA.

    This is required before participants and reviewers are able to continue the assessment. If they do not consent, or decline to participate in the ILA, participants are exited out of the survey. If a participant or reviewer declines to consent, that information will not be shared with anyone in the client organization.

  • The assessment should take 15 – 20 minutes to complete. There are 31 Rating questions, 5 Levels of Engagement questions, 2 Open-Response questions, and the demographic questions your organization has requested.

  • Once a participant has created a login and entered their personal ILA dashboard, they will be able to nominate reviewers by entering their first and last names, email addresses, and what their relationship is with the participant.

    Once a reviewer has been added, an invitation email is automatically sent by the ILA software platform. Watch this video to learn more about the participant dashboard, login, and nomination process.

  • Reviewers cannot be nominated after the nomination deadline, unless their organization agrees to an extension of the deadline.

    However, Greatheart strongly encourages organizations to not extend deadlines in order to protect the anonymity of reviewers, to ensure that reviewers are provided with enough time to complete their part of the assessment, and to help all participants receive their individual reports in a timely manner.

  • Participants and reviewers who have not completed their assessments receive reminder emails every other day and the day before their ILA closes. Participants and reviewers who have completed their assessments will not receive reminders.

  • Participants and reviewers cannot complete the assessment after the ILA closes, unless their organization agrees to an extension.

    Greatheart strongly encourages organizations to stick with their original deadlines to ensure participants receive their reports in a timely way.

  • Two Likert scales are used in the assessment: a frequency scale and an agreement scale. For the frequency scale, specific percentages of time are used to try to help reviewers apply the rating more consistently.

    Frequency scale:

    • Very Infrequently (less than 10% of the time)

    • Infrequently (about 30% of the time)

    • Sometimes (about 50% of the time)

    • Frequently (about 70% of the time)

    • Very Frequently (90% or more of the time)

    • Do Not Know/Does Not Apply

    Agreement scale:

    • Strongly Disagree

    • Disagree

    • Neutral

    • Agree

    • Strongly Agree

    • Do Not Know/Does Not Apply

  • Individual reports are sent out automatically to participants 24 hours after the assessment closes. Participants must complete their self-assessment before this deadline, or else the email won’t be triggered and they will not receive a report.

    If you cannot find your report email, be sure to check your spam folder first; the associated email address is support@assessmenthub.net. If you still cannot locate the email, please reach out to us and we will resend it to you.

    Aggregate reports are sent out to the client project management team within one week of the close of the assessment.

  • Report links are sent from the email, support@assessmenthub.net. If you are still unable to find the report link, please reach out to data@greatheartconsulting.com to request your report link be sent again.

    Greatheart strongly encourages participants to both save the email with the report link as well as to download the PDF version of their report and save it in an easy to remember location.

  • No. Participants will only be able to view reviewer data in aggregate if they nominate at least 5 reviewers, and at least 3 respond. Participants never see individual reviewer data for multiple choice questions.

    For open-text responses participants see exactly what was submitted by individual reviewers. The ILA notifies reviewers that their responses will be seen by the participant and are advised to take that into account when responding to open-text-response questions.

Client Support FAQs

Invitations, Reminders, Participation, Reports

  • Once Greatheart receives a list of participants’ first names, last names, and email addresses they are uploaded into the ILA software platform.

    On the assessment launch date, participants will receive email invitations with a link to create and access their participant portal. To learn more about the participant dashboard, login, and nomination process, watch this video.

  • Once a participant has created a login and entered their personal ILA dashboard, they will be able to nominate reviewers by entering their first and last names, email addresses, and what their relationship is with the participant.

    Once a reviewer has been added, an invitation email is automatically sent by the ILA software platform. Watch this video to learn more about the participant dashboard, login, and nomination process.

  • Participants and reviewers who have not completed their assessments receive reminder emails every other day and the day before their ILA closes. Participants and reviewers who have completed their assessments will not receive reminders.

  • Please reach out to your Greatheart Program Manager for an update.

  • The assessment period closes at 11:59pm on the close date. Individual reports are sent out to participants within 24 hours after the assessment closes. Participants must complete their self-assessment before this deadline to receive a report.

    If a participant has not completed their self-assessment they will not receive an individual report even if reviewers have provided feedback. If a participant cannot find their report email, have them check their spam folder, or search for the associated email address: support@assessmenthub.net. If they still cannot locate the email, please reach out to your Greatheart Program Manager.

    If purchased, Aggregate Reports are sent to within a week of the close of an assessment with a request to schedule a review meeting in order to go over the results of the aggregate report. You can follow the links to check out samples of the Premium Aggregate Report and the Standard Aggregate Report.

  • No.Aggregate Reports* do not include any individual participant data (question responses and demographic responses). The Aggregate Report just provides participant and reviewer responses in aggregate.

    *Any question or demographic response with fewer than five responses will be excluded from the report.

  • The assessment runs for three weeks, typically from a Monday to a Monday. Your Greatheart Program Manager will work with you to determine the right timeline for you. Here are some other notable timing related ILA logistics:

    • Individual reports are sent out the day after the assessment closes.

    • If purchased, Aggregate Reports are shared with the client organizing team within a week of the assessment closing (for groups of ten or more participants).

    • The ILA gives participants a snapshot of their inclusive behaviors at a specific point in time. Consequently, each purchase of the ILA includes two rounds of the assessment. Greatheart recommends 9-12 months between any two instances of the assessment in order to give enough time for individuals to apply learning and take action on the feedback received.

  • Greatheart provides comprehensive communication templates to support an effective rollout of the ILA. They include introductory emails for leadership to send to participants framing the assessment, wording to encourage participation, and templates that participants can use to invite and remind reviewers throughout the assessment period.

Admin & Communications

  • Consult pages 13-14 of Inclusive Leadership Assessment Overview document for a detailed look at all default demographics and demographic selection options.

  • You have the option of customizing the demographic questions before Greatheart sets up your project on the ILA software platform. Demographics can also be excluded, but this can have an impact on the Aggregate Report’s data cut availability. In particular:

    • “What is your country/region of residence?” must be included and a participant or reviewer must select either “United States of America” or “Canada” to view the following questions:*

      • What is your gender identity?

      • Do you identify as Hispanic/Latinx?

      • I identify myself as the following race(s) and/or ethnicity(ies)

      • Do you identify as LGBTQ?

    • For the Premium Aggregate Report, the default gender and reporting relationship questions must be used.

    *It is illegal to collect some of these demographics outside of the US and Canada.

    You can also add your own custom demographics (e.g., team, business unit, etc). Data from these custom demographics can be shared in the Aggregate Report via Demographic Cuts.

    Email templates for invitations and reminders can be customized for extra cost.

    You can customize the ILA and the participant dashboards to display your organization’s color branding (primary and secondary color) and your logo for a fee.

    Please reach out to your Greatheart Program Manager to learn more.

Customizing the ILA

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