Individual Leadership Self-Assessment Worksheet

  • Can you name your greatest strengths? Are you using them currently in your workplace?
  • How do you prepare yourself for your day or to kick off projects; what expectations do you set? Are you deliberate about what you create during the day?
  • How do you encourage / develop your staff?
  • Do you celebrate the beginnings? Do you reaffirm any small steps that you or your team/colleagues make?
  • How comfortable are you with accepting what you can’t control? How comfortable are you with uncertainty? Think of some experiences you’ve had with ambiguity and how you handled them.
  • Do you regularly brainstorm project issues or progress with your team to tap further into their creativity? How easily can you reframe or change your perspective on the situation at hand in order to see other paths to take?
  • Do you recognize the need for help and ask for help when you need it?
  • Are you looking for challenges on your team that are due to the uniqueness of the people? How do you engage in those challenges, to serve people ‘where they are at’?
  • Do you incorporate holistic values when you define goals?
  • How do you define wellness at work? Is wellness for you personally and for your team, a part of a team charter?Do you incorporate wellness principles into your project goals?
  • Do you finish strong,or do you get tired and careless at the end of a project or at the end of the day?
  • Do you have old inner voices that do not support your leadership style that you want to get rid of?
  • Overall, considering these answers, what is the growing edge for you as a leader?

YOUR ACTION PLAN AND PRIORITIES:

Making Leadership a Team Decision: Self-Assessment Worksheet

  • Are all individuals committed to the compelling vision and goals? What challenges come up around this commitment?
  • Do you take the time to study the adversity that all of you arein, and create rituals around the adversity to celebrate successes?
  • Is there ongoing evidence of shared leadership among the team members?
  • How is ambiguity handled at the team level?
  • When individuals change and transform from this experience, how is this communicated to the group to expand the team’s transformation?

YOUR ACTION PLAN AND PRIORITIES: