10 Dec
[email protected] Leadership

Leadership Self-Assessment

You need to assess yourself on a yearly basis and see how far you have gone
and what you still need to work on.
–Sunday Adelaja

For those familiar with our book “12 Steps For Courageous Leadership” you’re aware of our belief that courage is the most important attribute required in order for leaders to be effective and successful.

Below are the 12 “Courageability” factors we’d like you to self-evaluate. Score yourself from 1 – 10
(1 = poor and 10 = superb).

Score

_____ Lives and works with passion

_____ Documents and shares your goals

_____ Commits to addressing and tracking your goals

_____ Understands and leverages your strengths and the strengths of others

_____ Communicates with confidence and clarity

_____ Manages conflict and understands how it can be inspirational

_____ Develops others

_____ Effectively delegates

_____ Continually commits to enriching your skill-set

_____ Remains controlled at all times

_____ Consistently rewards and recognizes others

_____ Learns and grows from failures

How were your scores?  Were any below 7?  What about less than 5?

Are you a courageous leader?

Take time to regularly assess how you spend your time. Be ready to make changes that suit the goals pursued at a particular time.
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

 

03 Dec
[email protected] Change

Down To The Last Month!

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.
Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
—Brooks Atkinson

What a year. December is upon us and as we wrap up 2020, it’s not quite yet time to “let it go” as the above quote suggests. There’s one month left with time allowing us the possibility to achieve more goals, to ensure all accomplishments have been celebrated, and that 2021 planning has been initiated.

With reduced resources due to holiday and vacation time, what are your priorities?

Ask yourself:
1.What’s the number one goal/task I’d like to see completed before year end?

2.Have all major 2020 accomplishments been recognized and rewarded?

3.How are staffing/resource levels? Does anything need to be done prior to 1/1/2021?

4.Are there any major goal/vision/mission changes for 2021?

5.Do budgets include “people skill” development? Should they?

6.What was the #1 obstacle encountered in 2020 and can anything be done to remove barriers?

7.Do any new skills or behaviors need to be strengthened?

8.What about roles and responsibilities – could changes be beneficial?

9.Are relationships in place to discuss and address shared 2021 goals?

Ask your colleagues and direct reports to answer these same questions – ideally you’ll be on the same page to graciously “let go” of 2020 and be ready for 2021.

Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become . . 
― Erik Pevernagie