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How
To Determine If You Are A Leader
By Dennis Sommer (www.dennissommer.com)
Are you ready to take over a leadership role in your organization
? You probably feel comfortable with your industry, managing
staff, technology, and political culture at this point.
But, have you developed and fined tuned the leadership
qualities that make top leaders successful ? Your first
step toward success is assessing your leadership capabilities.
Let's see how you score on this 25 question assessment.
The following survey can be used to assess your current
leadership capabilities, assessing others in your organization,
or as a guideline for hiring C-level executives.
For each question, answer "Yes" if this leadership
quality is consistently met. Answer "No" if
this leadership quality is sometimes or rarely met.
After answering all the questions, lets see how you score.
1. Inspires and motivates people around them to perform
above and beyond expectations ?
2. Acts like an owner of the company no matter what position
they currently hold ?
3. Has a vision for the future and communicates that vision
to everyone they encounter ?
4. Recognizes the importance of long term personal, team,
and company goals?
5. Committed to succeed in all activities taken to meet
goals. Never gives up ?
6. Constantly searching for new knowledge and new ideas
that will improve personal and company performance ?
7. Willing to learn better methods to make sure employees
expand their knowledge base ?
8. Encourages interactive communication throughout the
organization ?
9. Receptive to both positive and negative feedback ?
10. Listens to employees, peers, and customers with an
open mind ?
11. Maintains a high level of trust with employees. Does
not closely monitor proven employees ?
12. Embraces diversity and is highly receptive to ideas
and people who are different ?
13. Action oriented self starter who takes calculated
risks ?
14. Thinks fast on their feet to come up with solutions
to critical situations ?
15. Helps employees develop the habits they need to be
more successful ?
16. Empowers employees to make decisions ?
17. Observes employee performance and provides constructive
feedback ?
18. Stimulates and relishes change ?
19. Adapts quickly to change. Does not fear change but
sees it as an opportunity ?
20. Realizes the importance of a positive frame of mind
and attitude. Remains positive in all situations ?
21. Apologizes and admits mistakes ?
22. Personal, team and company values are regarded as
guiding principles for all decisions ?
23. Values are documented and referred to on a daily basis
?
24. Bases employee performance evaluations on measurable
data and uses these measurements as a training tool ?
25. Involves employees in identifying and tracking their
performance measurements ?
How
did you score ?
For each "Yes" answer you get 1 point. For each
"No" answer you get 0 points.
Total the number of "Yes" answers.
21 - 25 points = Top notch leader in your field. Concentrate
on items that were answered with a "No".
16 - 20 points = Great potential to be a successful leader
with additional training, experience and mentoring.
0 - 15 points = Additional leadership training and experience
should be a priority.
About The Author
- Dennis Sommer
Dennis Sommer
is the founder and CEO of Executive Business Advisers,
a management consulting firm specializing in business
growth, sales and profit improvement. www.executivebusinessadvisers.com
Dennis helps companies increase sales revenue, reduce
sales and marketing costs, improve marketing ROI, and
drive new business growth by improving and optimizing
their sales, marketing, company strategy and financial
health.
Dennis is a highly sought after business keynote and seminar
speaker www.dennissommer.com
and author of several highly popular sales, marketing,
leadership and professional development international
articles and books www.advisersecrets.com
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Contact Dennis at 800-627-6512.
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