Chapter 3. Assessing Leadership Strengths and Weaknesses

What’s in This Chapter?

  • A process for implementing a self-assessment

  • A process for implementing a 360-degree assessment

  • A process for implementing behavioral and motivational assessments

Leadership requires self-examination. Many people have never thought of themselves as leaders and don’t really know what that means. Some think that being a good manager of tasks is leadership. It is critical to use an assessment at the beginning of your leadership sessions so that people begin to understand their own strengths and weaknesses.

It is important to emphasize here that this leadership workshop is about leveraging personal strengths, not about turning everyone into a clone of the perfect leader. There ...

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