Click on the title of the assessment of interest to link to the assessment questionnaire. Once you complete the assessment, you can enter your email address to receive a summary of your results. The contents of the Primer and the topical modules listed on the home page are designed as a resource to build personal insights, knowledge and skills for areas of self-development.
Periodic reassessment will help you to measure progress toward your personal development goals.
Leaders need to develop the personal capacity to recognize patterns and common interests, particularly to recognize and understand other perspectives in order to arrive at shared vision, purposes and values. Connecting the dots, bringing different points of view into perspective, and encouraging a diverse group to think clearly about change opportunities, benefits the organization, the team and its individual members. With an aim to setting priorities, analyzing barriers and obstacles to develop actionable strategies, environmental assessment capabilities are a fundamental leadership building block.
Clarity of values, commitment to a cause that transcends self, and clarity of purpose for a goal involving commitment to a better future are inherent components in visioning to mobilize people to confidently take action and sustain energies toward common vision. Clarity of purpose and the focus it engenders inspire people to commit their best effort to achieve.
Trust is an essential foundation of effective leadership. Without trust, commitment, support and inspiration are fleeting and change initiatives are at risk to the whims of organizational pressure points of the moment.
Few leaders understand the capacity to share power and influence widely as a strategy to not only achieve, but to expand success. Shared effort, a wide range of experience and input, and empowerment of the team through development of dispersed influence, not only rewards the individual, but increases advocacy position within the organization.
Bringing out the best in others, developing talents and capabilities, building power through shared influence and abandoning the need for control build individual and organizational capability. Training, coaching, mentoring, feedback and networking support the development of individual confidence and capacity for creativity, innovation, goalsetting and transformation.
To be an effective leader, self-reflection must be an active and continuing thought process, with focus on understanding and evaluating personal values and how congruently behaviors match those values. Analysis on verbal and nonverbal communication, the impact of actions and words on goal achievement and the capacity to self-adjust behaviors are essential to effective collaborative leadership in an increasingly complex environment.
