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Product & Services - Strength Analysis |
Sample Questions
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Deliver Vision and Gain Commitment
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Visualizes and articulates the organization’s vision with clarity and passion.
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Demonstrates commitment to the vision in everyday work.
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Inspires commitment through communication, influence and involvement.
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Understands trends and opportunities and provides clear guidance for future directions.
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Translates vision into action-oriented strategies and plans.
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Champion Change Process
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Questions the status quo and seeks improvement in business operations. |
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Reacts positively to change and deals effectively with the impact of change. |
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Empathizes with the feeling of uncertainty and anxiety caused by change. |
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Discusses impending changes with stakeholders to facilitate change.
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Encourages and reinforces the new behaviors required to perform in the new situation.
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Build High Performance Team
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Assembles teams with different talents, interests and background. Leverages diversity
to create synergy.
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Clarifies expectations for individual team-members. Aligns team’s objectives with
the organizational vision and goals.
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Insists accountability for self and others. Establishes acceptable level of performance
and specifies deliverables.
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Empowers people by encouraging cooperation and collaboration, as well as by sharing
authority and decision making.
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Manages conflict constructively by understanding others’ perspectives and establishing
common goals.
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Manage Work and Deliver Results |
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Creates action plans to prioritize and establish a course of action.
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Creates and manages budgets and allocates appropriate resources effectively.
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Aligns organizational structures and systems to ensure performance.
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Tracks critical steps, monitors progress and makes necessary adjustments.
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Removes organizational barriers and obstacles to ensure success.
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Focus on Customers
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Creates environments that focus on customers and support continuous improvements.
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Takes personal responsibility and initiatives seeking ways to serve customers.
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Seeks, acts on, and follows through on customer feedback regarding products or services
provided.
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Understands and addresses underlying customer needs, in addition to those expressed
overtly.
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Builds long-term customer relationship by working as a trusted advisor and partner.
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Coach, Mentor, and Develop Others
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Inspires others to achieve their best with encouragement and guidance.
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Creates and nurtures an environment that encourages others to coach and mentor.
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Facilitates learning, growth and development by understanding others’ unique strengths,
weaknesses, and personal styles.
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Models effective leadership and best practices. Walks the talk to make actions reflect
teaching and intentions.
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Provides timely developmental and constructive feedback, as well as praise for improvements.
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Build Relationships and Communicate for Organizational Success
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Treats others with respect, trust and dignity and values workforce diversity.
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Demonstrates understanding of stakeholders’ perspectives and interests.
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Nurtures an organizational culture that promotes open communications and the expression
of different view points.
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Listens to others using active listening skills, such as taking notes, rephrasing
and giving confirmations.
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Expresses self effectively and communicates with conviction and enthusiasm.
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Demonstrate Integrity and Professional Ethics
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Creates an environment that builds trust and encourages doing the right thing.
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Behaves in accordance with moral principals and professional ethics.
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Faces challenge with self-possession, confidence, and resolution.
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Commits to the organizational mission, vision and goals, and acts with sustained
initiatives.
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Shows consistency among principles, values and behavior. Leads in the way that other
recognize as authentic.
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Demonstrate Personal Leadership Traits
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Demonstrates realistic self-confidence in one’s ability and secure self-image.
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Demonstrates a strong orientation for achievement. |
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Takes calculated risks by researching and evaluating options and makes decisions
based on the information that is available.
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Generates new ideas, explores new ways to solve problems, and applies innovations.
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Adapts and works effectively in response to diversity of people, new information,
changing conditions, or unexpected barriers.
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Demonstrate Professional Credibility
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Demonstrates the ability to leverage one’s professional experience to meet current
job requirements and challenges.
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Possesses knowledge, skills and technical proficiency in the discipline or functional
area.
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Demonstrates up-to-date industry knowledge regarding new developments, new technologies
and new trends.
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Recognizes others’ discipline knowledge and technical skills and utilizes them effectively
to accomplish the task.
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Acquires new knowledge and skills, shares them with team members, and applies them
in daily work.
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Open Ended Questions
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In order to become a more effective leader, what should this leader stop doing?
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In order to become a more effective leader, what should this leader start doing?
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In order to become a more effective leader, what should this leader continue doing?
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Sample Analyses |
Example 1 – Simple Analysis
Delegation: I personally check the work done by each of my team members |
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Question 1 |
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Motivation: I give more than one type of feedback
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Question 2 |
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Leadership: I rate coaching as one of my key leadership roles
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Question 3 |
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Example 2 – Collective Analysis
For each major topic a summary chart with gap analysis will be presented to highlight
development opportunities. E.g. Leadership Categories; Q1 Delegation, Q2 Planning,
Q3 Motivation, Q4 Operational Management, Q5 Performance Management
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