Leadership Assessment Inventory

Personal Attributes

• Self-motivated and self-directing
• Firm sense of purpose and commitment
• Guided by a clear set of values
• Trustworthy
• Continually learning, developing and expanding
• Person of integrity and credibility
• Able to attract the respect and admonition of a diversity of individuals
• Takes time to build personal relationships
• Able to disagree without creating hostility
• Responds effectively under pressure
• Uses humor and wit appropriately
• Capable of maintaining loyalty

Leadership

• Ability to establish and hold a vision of the future
• Ability to inspire a willingness and desire among others to reach a common goal
• Ability to shape and champion an idea until it takes usable form
• Actively involves other people
• Seeks out and accepts criticism
• Can envision a new reality and aid in its translation into concrete terms
• Can make things happen

Creating Vision

• Ability to focus on critical issues
• Ability to think beyond the daily routine
• Sees a greater vision that ties day-to-day activities to future goals
• Thinks strategically
• Accepts responsibility for setting direction
• Motivates and inspires others to align with the vision

Team Development

• Creates an environment of trust among team members
• Actively involves the team in formulating goals and objectives
• Actively involves the team in key decisions
• Promotes a win-win approach to conflict resolution
• Effectively delegates
• Develops future leaders

Values

• Makes decisions and acts according to the organization’s value system
• Serves as the focal for translating organizational values into reality

Positioning

• Understands the external environment as it relates to the organization
• Understands the needs and demands of customers
• Understands the strengths and weaknesses of the team and the organization
• Ability to abandon or change a strategy when circumstances dictate

Communicating

• Ability to present clear and concise thoughts and ideas in a way that allows the organization to focus on the essential issues
• A good listener
• Communicates in the language of the receiver
• Makes clear his or her position on key issues
• “Walks the talk” — actions are consistent with words
• Conducts effective and efficient meetings

Empowering

• Treats people as the organization’s most important asset
• Treats people with dignity and respect
• Effective in linking the needs of the individual to the needs of the organization
• Brings out the best in people—lifts them to higher levels

Analytical

• Identifies key areas that will ensure successful results (critical success factors)
• Collects and organizes data to support critical success factors
• Sees the interrelationship of a complex situation and can perceive each part of the whole in a clear concise manner
• Deals with problems in proportion to their organizational importance
• Evaluates progress against plans and takes corrective action to achieve desired results

Source: Bruce Boyd, president and chief executive officer of Amos Press

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