Career Development

LEADERSHIP style self-assessment

This assessment profile will help you to assess your preferred leadership style.

Read the following descriptions and rate yourself on the following scale from 1 to 5:

5 = I always do this.
4 = I often do this.
3 = I occasionally do this.
2 = I seldom do this.
1 = I never do this.

Interacting with my team members, I:	Score
1. Have responsibility for problem solving and decision making.
2. Give instructions and share information.
3. Set out work procedures and standards.
4. Evaluate performance.
5. Identify problems and develop action plans to resolve them.
6. Set people objectives.
7. Control decision making.
8. Allocate resources.
9. Provide direction.
10. Ask for opinions and information.
11. Coordinate what team members are doing, but not how they are doing it.
12. Build trust in the team.
13. Facilitate communication with and between others.
14. Ask for and am receptive to ideas
15. Encourage participation.
16. Reconcile difficulties if reported.
17. Monitor performance directly.
18. Focus on what the team members are feeling.
19. Encourage a good team spirit.
20. Show confidence in team members' abilities.

LEADERSHIP style self-assessment scoring

Total your scores for questions 1 to 10. These questions relate to task-related leadership behaviors - the horizontal axis in the graph below. These behaviors include telling people what to do, explaining, giving information and directing.

Score for task-related behaviors (horizontal axis):

Now, total your scores for questions 11 to 20. These questions relate to people-related leadership behaviors - the vertical axis in the graph below. These behaviors include asking people for ideas, encouraging and building trust.

Score for people-related behaviors (vertical axis):

Plot your score on the graph below by putting an X where your scores for the horizontal axis and vertical axis meet.

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People-Related behaviors

Task-Related Behaviors

Score Interpretation

Reproduced by permission from HRD Pres, Inc., Compendium of Questionnaires and inventories, Volume 2, Cook, Sarah.


		Leadership Style Assessment