SELF UNDERSTANDING: Self-Assessment

1. Develop clarity of personal values, purpose and vision
2. Develop and execute a personal strategy
3. Demonstrate authenticity through behavioral alignment with values and vision
4. Taking accountability for personal and leadership actions

SELF UNDERSTANDING: Resiliency

1. Willingness to jump in and get things started
2. Seek opportunities for performance improvement and development
3. Build off of others ideas for the benefit of the decision
4. Maintain appropriate, empowered attitude
5. Persistence in managing and overcoming adversity
6. Act proactively in seeking new opportunities
7. Prioritization, time management

WORKING WITH OTHERS: Interpersonal & Relationship Skills

1. Understand and appreciate diversity of perspective and style
2. Participate and contribute fully as a team member
3. Demonstrate empathy and understanding
4. Build trust and demonstrate trustworthiness

WORKING WITH OTHERS: Communication Skills

1. Understand and adapt to your audience - helping others learn
2. Express intention clearly and concisely in written communications
3. Build collaboration and clearly articulate intention in verbal communications
4. Formal presentation skills
5. Listen for understanding
6. Manage flow of communication/information

WORKING WITH OTHERS: Employee Development (Coach & Motivate)

1. Motivating employees to high performance
2. Coaching for development and improved performance
3. Manage with appreciation/respect for diversity of individual values and needs
4. Delegate tasks as needed and with awareness of employee development opportunities
5. Select appropriate staff to fulfill specific project needs and responsibilities

ALIGNMENT: Customer Orientation

1. Understand and apply customer needs and expectations
2. Gather customer requirements and input
3. Partner with customer in gathering requirements, maintaining communication flow and managing work
4. Set and monitor performance standards

ALIGNMENT: Strategic Business Acumen

1. Demonstrate ability to ethically build support for a perspective you feel strongly about
2. Holistic view - think in terms of the entire system and the effects and consequences of actions and decisions
3. Operate with an awareness of marketplace competition and general landscape of related business arenas
4. General business acumen - functions of strategic planning, finance, marketing, manufacturing, R&D, etc.

ALIGNMENT: Project Leadership

1. Set, communicate and monitor milestones and objectives
2. Gain and maintain buy in from sponsors and customers
3. Prioritize and allocate resources
4. Manage multiple, potentially conflicting priorities across various/diverse disciplines
5. Maintain an effective, interactive and productive team culture
6. Manage budget and project progress
7. Manage risk versus reward and ROI equations
8. Balance established standards with need for exceptions in decision-making
9. Make timely decisions in alignment with customer and business pace

WORKING WITH OTHERS: Creating and Actualizing Vision

1. Create a clear and inspirational vision of the desired outcome
2. Align the vision with broader organizational strategies
3. Translate the vision into manageable action steps
4. Communicate vision to enroll/enlist staff, sponsors and customers
5. Influence and Evangelize (sales, negotiation)
6. Gather appropriate input
7. Understand individual motivators and decision-making styles and utilize to enroll others
8. Facilitate win/win solutions

ALIGNMENT: Create, Support and Manage Change

1. Improvement Initiatives (three levels: managing your own transition / transformation, managing a corporate (external) change initiative, coaching others through transition)
2. Identify and implement appropriate change initiatives/efforts
3. Promote and build support for change initiatives
4. Understand cost/benefit and ROI of change initiatives
5. Manage transition with employees - guiding and supporting the change process
6. Support staff in navigating transitional process/challenges through organizational change
7. Demonstrate and build resilience in the face of change

Leadership Assessment

Instructions: For each bulleted rate your own strength by marking: H (high), M (medium), or L (low). After you have rated each of the bulleted items, total the number of (H,M,L) scores and give yourself an overall rating (high, medium, or low).

Inner Work: Self-Awareness

Develop clarity of personal values, purpose, and vision.
RATING: ________
Develop and execute a personal branding strategy.
RATING: ________
Demonstrate authenticity through behavioral alignment with values and vision.
RATING: ________
Take accountability for personal and leadership actions.
RATING: ________
Know and trust your own intuition.
RATING: ________
Learn to learn: new technology.
RATING: ________

Inner Work: Resiliency

Be willing to jump in and get things started.
RATING: ________
Seek opportunities for performance improvement and development.
RATING: ________
Build on others’ ideas for the benefit of the decision.
RATING: ________
Maintain appropriate, empowered attitude.
RATING: ________
Persistence in managing and overcoming adversity.
RATING: ________
Act proactively in seeking new opportunities.
RATING: ________
Prioritize tasks and manage time.
RATING: ________

Working with Others (Managers, Subordinates, Peers):
Interpersonal and Relationship Skills

Understand and appreciate diversity of perspective and style.
RATING: ________
Participate and contribute fully as a team member.
RATING: ________
Demonstrate empathy and understanding.
RATING: ________
Build trust and demonstrate trustworthiness.
RATING: ________

Working with Others (Managers, Subordinates, Peers):
Communication Skills

Understand and adapt to your audience, helping others to learn.
RATING: ________
Express intention clearly and concisely in written communications.
RATING: ________
Build collaboration and clearly articulate intention in verbal communications.
RATING: ________
The formal presentation skills.
RATING: ________
Listen for understanding.
RATING: ________
Manage flow of communication/information.
RATING: ________

Self-Assessment

Working with Others (Managers, Subordinates, Peers): Employee
Development (Coach and Motivate)

Motivate employees to high performance.
RATING: ________
Coach for development and improved performance.
RATING: ________
Manage with appreciation and respect for diversity of individual values and needs.
RATING: ________
Delegate tasks as needed and with awareness of employee development opportunities.
RATING: ________
Select appropriate staff to fulfill specific project needs and responsibilities.
RATING: ________

Working with Others (External): Customer Orientation

Understand and apply customer needs and expectations.
RATING: ________
Gather customer requirements and input.
RATING: ________
Partner with customer in gathering requirements, maintaining communication flow, and managing work.
RATING: ________
Set and monitor performance standards.
RATING: ________

Working with Others (External): Strategic Business Acumen

Demonstrate ability to ethically build support for a perspective about which you feel strongly.
RATING: ________
Think holistically in terms of the entire system and the effects and consequences of actions and decisions.
RATING: ________
Operate with an awareness of marketplace competition and general landscape of related business arenas.
RATING: ________
Has general business acumen in such functions as strategic planning, finance, marketing, manufacturing, and research and development.
RATING: ________

Working with Others (External): Project Leadership

Build cohesive teams with shared purpose and high performance.
RATING: ________
Set, communicate, and monitor milestones and objectives.
RATING: ________
Gain and maintain buy-in from sponsors and customers.
RATING: ________
Prioritize and allocate resources.
RATING: ________
Manage multiple, potentially conflicting priorities across various/diverse disciplines.
RATING: ________
Create and define systems and processes to translate vision into action.
RATING: ________
Maintain an effective, interactive, and productive team culture.
RATING: ________
Manage budget and project progress.
RATING: ________
Gather and analyze appropriate data and input and manage “noise” of information overload.
RATING: ________
Manage risk versus reward and return-on-investment equations.
RATING: ________
Balance established standards with need for exceptions in decision making.
RATING: ________
Align decisions with needs of business and with organization and team values.
RATING: ________

Working with Others (External): Creating and Actualizing Vision

Create a clear and inspirational vision of the desired outcome.
RATING: ________
Align the vision with broader organizational strategies.
RATING: ________
Translate the vision into manageable action steps.
RATING: ________
Communicate vision to enroll and enlist staff, sponsors, and customers.
RATING: ________
Influence and evangelize (sales, negotiation).
RATING: ________
Gather appropriate input.
RATING: ________
Understand individual motivators and decision-making styles and use them to enroll others.
RATING: ________

The Challenge of Change: Create, Support, and Manage Change

Understand improvement Initiatives (three levels: managing your own transition/transformation, managing a corporate (external) change initiative, coaching others through transition)
RATING: ________
Identify and implement appropriate change initiatives/efforts.
RATING: ________
Promote and build support for change initiatives.
RATING: ________
Understand cost/benefit and return-on-investment of change initiatives.
RATING: ________
Manage transition with employees, guiding and supporting the change process.
RATING: ________
Support staff in navigating transitional process and challenges through organizational change.
RATING: ________
Demonstrate and build resilience in the face of change.
RATING: ________

Where can you improve as a leader?