Fifteen areas leaders should be evaluating their personal effectiveness

Multi-award winning author and coach / consultant to the stars, Marshall Goldsmith developed a leadership 360 that challenges where leaders should be spending their time and effort.

Featured in his book, What Got You Here, Won't Get You There, it touches on fifteen areas a leader needs to active in if they are to lead their organisation to improved high-performance.

Expansive at over 70 questions in total, this reflective leadership assessment challenges leaders to identify their strengths while also enlightening self to the areas you could be more effective.

To enable reflection, we've summarised a few of the key lessons the 360 draws on:

📌 To what degree are you aware of what's going on in the world around you. Are you building adaptability into your team, department or organisation to respond to change as needed?

📌 To what degree do you value diversity and what it offers your team, department or organisation in terms of different perspective and experience. Are you bringing different voices to the table to help you expand your views and are you actively encouraging others under your charge to do the same?

📌 To what degree are you up to speed on the latest technologies being introduced into the world. Are you acquiring the necessary knowledge to know how to put these technologies to best use in your organisation and are you recruiting people into your team, department or business to step your business up to the next level through these technological advancements?

📌 To what degree do you see your peers and co-workers as partners to work alongside and with rather that people to compete with. Are you uniting people behind a common goal or shared purpose and encouraging others to do the same?

📌 To what degree are you willing to share leadership with others, recognising when they have the skills necessary to lead something forward and stepping back to support from the sidelines or contribute from within. Are you deferring to others when they have more expertise or experience or shutting people out or down in order to protect your position and power?

📌 To what degree have you mastered the art of articulating the vision you have for your organisation, department or team. Are you inspiring people to commit to a cause and have you created the clarity needed for people to know what should be prioritised in order to deliver on the vision?

📌 To what degree do you invest in your people and their development. Are you providing people with the opportunity to develop be it through training, coaching or opportunity to develop new skills on the job? and are you investing in giving people the feedback they require to know how they are doing and how they can improve?

📌 To what degree are you building people's confidence and letting them make decisions and take risks. Are you giving people the freedom they deserve to contribute to the running of the organisation, department or team?

📌 To what degree do you know your personal strengths and weaknesses. Are you investing in your own ongoing professional development and surrounding yourself with people who compliment and contrast your professional strengths?

📌 To what degree are you engaged in constructive dialogue with people surrounding your own performance. Are you interested in the opinions and feedback of others and do you genuinely listen when people offer up advice on how you could improve?

📌 To what degree are you acting with integrity. Are you demonstrating the right behaviours to those you lead and serve and a role model of the organisation's values and principles?

📌 To what degree are you invested in challenging the status quo. Are you translating creative ideas into business results and prepared to throw caution to the wind to bring about different results for the organisation, department or team?

📌 To what degree are you reading the horizon and the threats and opportunities that lie out of sight. Are you investing in learning about future trends and opportunities and learning from those who have knowledge about them?

📌 To what degree are you focussed on your customer and their satisfaction with your business. Are you inviting feedback and opinion from your customers and are you committed to acting on the information they enlighten you with.

📌 To what degree are you maintaining a healthy competitive advantage. Are you getting the balance right between supporting people and holding them to account for delivering their part of the plan, and are you eliminating waste wherever you see it.

How do you fair? And how do others see you fair?