Leadership Capital

Your leadership development touchstones

Leadership development is evergreen; your leadership capacity evolves with every experience. Each failure is a form of feedback; each success teaches you more about what you are capable of achieving. Both can motivate and inform new accomplishments.

Leadership is as much an "inside job" as a way of interacting with the people and external events in your life. Returning to and refining your understanding of the following touchstones enables you to pursue your goals with increasing levels of integrity and clarity.

Complete the following statements to the best of your ability today:

Signature Strengths

I know I do these things consistently and uniquely well:

The most important ways I use these strengths in my work are:

I can further develop these strengths by:

Roles

The most important roles I play in my life are:

To me, "success" in each of these roles means:

I know I'm meeting these standards of success when:

Impression

I most typically interact in a way that is described as:

The one thing everyone knows they can consistently expect of me is:

After interacting with me, others typically feel:

Values

My top three personal values are:

The most important ways I translate these values into actions are:

I could act on these values even more by:

Legacy

The most important thing I want to be known for is:

These things are helping me accomplish this legacy:

These things could help me accomplish even more of this legacy:

Effectiveness

I define a leader as:

I gauge my effectiveness as a leader by:

Others gauge my effectiveness as a leader by:

Outcomes

The most significant changes I've created or led are:

The people that benefited the most from these changes are:

The most important things I did that led to these outcomes were:

Growth

My top goals for developing as a leader are:

Actions I've recently taken to support each goal include:

I would rate my level of commitment to achieving these goals as:

In Conclusion

As I review my responses to the above, I notice these themes:

My most critical strengths are:

My best opportunities for growth are:

Honestly, the level of importance I place on all of the above is:

Therefore, I will:

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