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Know Your Leadership Style™

Answer all 30 statements

Respond based on how you actually lead, not how you think you should answer. There are no right or wrong answers.

Influence

1. I help people connect their daily work to a larger purpose.
2. I build credibility by making expectations and consequences clear.
3. When people are uncertain, I help them examine the challenge and learn their way forward.
4. I influence others first by listening and understanding what they need.
5. My influence depends on consistency between my values, words, and actions.

Decision-Making

6. I make decisions in ways that reinforce a compelling shared purpose.
7. I prefer decisions that clarify standards, responsibilities, and expected results.
8. When there is no obvious technical answer, I am comfortable testing, learning, and adjusting.
9. I consider how a decision will affect people's growth and well-being, not only the immediate result.
10. I test my own assumptions and seek relevant perspectives before making an important decision.

People Development

11. I raise people's aspirations by helping them see what they can become.
12. I use clear goals, feedback, and recognition to reinforce strong performance.
13. I help people build capacity to handle challenges rather than solving every problem for them.
14. Developing other people is a central responsibility of leadership.
15. I give people candid feedback in a way that is consistent with my values and intentions.

Accountability

16. I connect accountability to purpose so people understand why the standard matters.
17. I monitor commitments and address performance gaps when expectations are not met.
18. When a recurring problem persists, I look beyond the symptom to the beliefs, habits, or tradeoffs sustaining it.
19. I hold people responsible while still protecting their dignity and opportunity to grow.
20. I would rather address a difficult truth directly than preserve artificial harmony.

Change Leadership

21. I create energy for change by helping people see a more compelling future.
22. During change, I establish clear short-term expectations and checkpoints to maintain performance.
23. I can hold competing values and uncertainty long enough for a group to learn what the situation requires.
24. I make room for the concerns and voices of people who will be affected by change.
25. I stay anchored in core values while remaining open to information that may change my view.

Personal Leadership

26. I naturally challenge myself and others to grow beyond current expectations.
27. I am comfortable using clear agreements, rewards, and corrective feedback to manage performance.
28. I can remain productive when the problem is complex, the solution is unclear, and learning must happen in real time.
29. I am willing to put another person's development ahead of my own recognition.
30. I understand my strengths, limitations, and values well enough to explain why I lead the way I do.