What's the difference between assessments, surveys, and 360s?

Several LeaderFactor products share a family name, and a couple of them measure related things through different instruments. Here’s how to tell them apart.

The self-service assessments

These live in the Assessments catalog. You take them yourself, and each unlocks a personal report — see Take an assessment.

• PSindex® self-assessment — your personal impact across The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety™: inclusion safety, learner safety, contributor safety, and challenger safety.
• EQindex® self-assessment — emotional intelligence across 6 domains: self and social, each crossed with awareness, regard, and management.
• DECIDERindex™ — your decision-making across the 7 steps of the DECIDER model.
• COHESIONindex™ — team cohesion across four dimensions: social, task, identity, and commitment.
• ChangeReadyindex™ — change readiness across the 5 Cs: character, competence, commitment, care, and capacity.
• ALI — an AI leadership assessment.

PSindex assessment vs PSindex survey

Same research, different instrument.

• The PSindex self-assessment is about you — your own impact on psychological safety. You start it yourself from the catalog.
• The PSindex survey is about your team or organization — an admin schedules it, participants respond anonymously, and results appear as a heatmap. If you got a PSindex email invitation from your organization, that’s the survey — see Open a survey or rating from an email invitation. Admins, see Create your first PSindex survey.

EQindex assessment vs EQindex 360

• The EQindex self-assessment is self-service. You can add your own raters afterward — see Invite raters to your assessment.
• EQindex® 360 is admin-run: an administrator creates a batch of leaders and assigns raters for each. See Create a 360 batch.

Rule of thumb: if you started it yourself from the catalog, it’s an assessment. If it arrived by invitation, it’s a survey or a 360.