Self Assessment Form

ON LEADERSHIP

Self-Assessment

This questionnaire is intended as a framework only, for helping you to think about yourself as a leader. The purpose is to help you focus on your perceptions of your strengths, as well as those areas in which you may want to plan for training, coaching, and/or other developmental experiences.

Your Name:

Seminar Date:

Effective managers and leaders need skills in their own technical or professional areas, but they also need:
• To understand people
• To manage effectively
• To understand the organizational systems in which they operate

We would like you to consider, and write a few sentences about:

1. How you relate to people

Consider such issues, for example, as
• How well you "size up" people
• How you work with, and enjoy working with, others
• How much you understand others' motivations, and why they do the things they do

2. Your managerial practices

Consider such issues, for example, as
• How you plan and communicate those plans to others
• How you assign tasks and monitor them
• How/whether you provide feedback, both positive and negative, and develop your people

3. Your knowledge of organizational systems

Consider such issues, for example, as how well you
• Align your work in an organizational context
• Work across functions
• Approach systems—compensation, appraisal, career development, etc.

Please complete the following statements as well.

4. I am most effective when:

5. I tend to have difficulties in the following areas:

6. Others tell me I can improve by: