Assess Your Leadership Skills

Assess Your Leadership Development Needs

For each skill, score on a scale of 1 (very low) to 10 (extremely high) for where you think you are right now and then enter a goal for where you’d like to be in the next year in the “goal” column.

Achieving Your Goals

Score your ability to:	Now	Goal
Identify your vision and purpose.
Drop whatever stands in your way.
Express a plan for success to people who matter.
Act relentlessly on your plan.
Learn from feedback every day.

Create a culture of learning.
Diagnose the effectiveness of your processes.
Optimize your processes.
Encourage responsibility, accountability, and shared leadership.
De-politicize your procedures.
Reduce the need for delegation by increasing process ownership.
Manage team alignment from vision to goal to performance.
Measure what matters, and only what matters (and trust the rest).
Develop trust and mutual respect in your team.
Raise morale and expectations at the same time.
Dramatically improve your key performance measures.
Develop the type of peak performance that attracts and retains top talent.

Download: Word doc version of Achieving Your Goals assessment.

Developing Relationships

Score your ability to:	Now	Goal
Listen actively with curiosity and empathy
Identify and reflect opinions and opportunities
Share responsibility for success
Think with an open, creative mind
Express your optimal point of view
Nurture your relationships
Handle personality differences under pressure.
Utilize the benefits of diverse personal preferences.
Adjust conversational techniques based on the personality preferences of others.
Recognize the effects of stress on personality and adjust your reactions.
Manage and optimize the dynamics in your conversations.
Increase your ability to interpret body language and non-verbal clues.
Use a collaborative approach to solving problems.
Use your personality style to your advantage rather than as a roadblock to others.
Make your perceptions, expectations, urgency and intent explicit.

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Building Powerful Teams

Score your ability to:	Now	Goal
Purpose: clearly identify and articulate the team’s purpose to all constituents.
Processes: map, design, and improve processes.
Performance: measure and reward performance based on achievement of those goals that are aligned with the team’s purpose.
Priorities: set priorities based on the team’s purpose and goals.
Problems: creatively solve problems and convert challenges into opportunities.

Create a series of meaningful agreements.
Organize processes and environments to support constant development.
Ask more than you tell.
Coach others based on their interests, strengths and skills.
Help others to set and achieve meaningful goals.
Identify and respond to emotional reactions.
Guide individuals toward realizing and expanding their potential.
Ask for and utilize feedback.
Recognize and reward stellar performance.
Identify each person’s deep level motivators.
Identify barriers to success and find ways to overcome those barriers.
Challenge limiting beliefs and promote thinking power in yourself and others.
Provide tangible proof of your support and enthusiasm.
Support personal growth and development in yourself and others.

Download: Word doc version of Building Powerful Teams assessment.

Reflection Questions

Where are your greatest strengths?

What would be the impact of increasing your strengths and improving your effectiveness in those areas?

Where are your greatest challenges?

What could happen if you do not make adjustments in the areas where you scored the lowest?

Think about what your performance would look like if you reached the levels indicated by the scores in your goal column. What impact would reaching your goals have on your career? On your life?

Based on what you see and feel in this assessment, what steps should you put in your development plan?

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Download: Word Doc version of complete Leadership Development Needs Assessment.

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