Leadership Discovery Questionnaire

Overview

This is a list of self-guided leadership exploration questions, as study notes from the book Scaling Leadership. Each checkbox marks one question explored by the reader.

Creative Competencies

These prompts focus on growth-oriented, connective, and higher-order leadership behaviors.

1. Caring Connection

Reflect on how supportive and connective you are in relationships.

How caring and connective am I in my relationships?
Am I building warm, supportive connections that bring out the best in others?

2. Fosters Team Play

Reflect on how well you build collaboration and shared performance.

How effectively do I build high-performance teams?
Do I foster collaboration and synergy across my team and organization?

3. Collaborator

Reflect on how well you create shared outcomes with others.

How well do I engage others to find common ground and win-win solutions?
In conflicts, am I creating synergy or pushing my own agenda?

4. Mentoring & Developing

Reflect on how intentionally you invest in other people's growth.

How consistently do I develop and empower others?
Am I investing in people's growth through mentoring and coaching?

5. Interpersonal Intelligence

Reflect on your awareness of people, emotions, and conflict.

How effectively do I listen, manage emotions, and handle conflict?
Do I read people well and respond with emotional intelligence?

6. Selfless Leader

Reflect on service, humility, and common-good orientation.

Do I prioritize service and the common good over self-interest?
Am I leading from a place of humility rather than personal ambition?

7. Balance

Reflect on how well you sustain healthy rhythms.

How well do I maintain balance between work, life, activity, and reflection?
Am I modeling sustainable rhythms for myself and my team?

8. Composure

Reflect on calmness and centeredness under pressure.

How calm and centered am I under pressure?
Do I maintain perspective in high-tension situations?

9. Personal Learner

Reflect on your commitment to continual learning.

How committed am I to ongoing personal and professional growth?
Am I actively learning from feedback and experiences?

10. Integrity

Reflect on alignment between values, words, and actions.

How consistently do I walk my talk and live my values?
Do people trust me because my actions match my words?

11. Courageous Authenticity

Reflect on truth-telling and willingness to address hard issues.

How willing am I to speak truth and address difficult issues?
Do I bring up the undiscussables with courage?

12. Community Concern

Reflect on how much broader social impact enters your leadership choices.

How much do I consider broader community and societal impact?
Is my leadership linked to service beyond my organization?

13. Sustainable Productivity

Reflect on whether results are achieved in durable ways.

Do I achieve results in ways that sustain long-term effectiveness?
Am I building capacity rather than burning out people or systems?

14. Systems Thinker

Reflect on whole-system awareness and long-term consequence thinking.

How well do I see and act from a whole-system perspective?
Do my decisions consider long-term systemic health?

15. Strategic Focus

Reflect on how well day-to-day action aligns with strategy.

How effectively do I think and act strategically?
Am I aligning daily actions with bigger-picture strategy?

16. Purposeful & Visionary

Reflect on vision, purpose, and the ability to inspire direction.

How clearly do I communicate and model purpose and vision?
Do I inspire others with a compelling future direction?

17. Achieves Results

Reflect on execution strength and delivery record.

How strong is my track record of goal achievement?
Am I consistently delivering high performance?

18. Decisiveness

Reflect on decision-making speed and confidence in uncertainty.

How comfortable am I making timely decisions in uncertainty?
Do I move forward decisively when needed?

Reactive Tendencies

These prompts focus on patterns that may reduce leadership effectiveness if left unexamined.

19. Conservative

Reflect on rigidity, caution, and resistance to change.

Am I overly rule-bound or risk-averse?
Do I stick too rigidly to procedures at the expense of innovation?

20. Pleasing

Reflect on approval-seeking and avoidance of disapproval.

How much do I seek approval and avoid disapproval?
Am I compromising my own needs to keep others happy?

21. Belonging

Reflect on conformity and how much you bend to fit expectations.

Do I overly conform to fit in and meet expectations?
Am I sacrificing authenticity for group acceptance?

22. Passive

Reflect on initiative, agency, and ownership.

How often do I give away my power or avoid taking initiative?
Do I wait for others or circumstances instead of acting?

23. Arrogance

Reflect on ego projection and how it affects connection.

Do I come across as superior or self-centered?
Am I projecting ego that distances others?

24. Critical

Reflect on whether critique is constructive or corrosive.

How often do I default to criticism or cynicism?
Does my questioning style demotivate rather than improve?

25. Distance

Reflect on withdrawal, aloofness, and emotional separation.

Am I emotionally aloof or withdrawn?
Do I protect myself by staying distant or superior?

26. Perfect

Reflect on perfectionism and the cost it creates.

Am I driven by a need for flawless results?
Does perfectionism create unnecessary stress or delay?

27. Driven

Reflect on overdrive, intensity, and burnout risk.

Am I in overdrive, pushing too hard?
Does my intensity lead to burnout for myself or others?

28. Ambition

Reflect on competitive drive and whether it overpowers balance.

Is my need to get ahead or be better than others excessive?
Does ambition overshadow collaboration and balance?

29. Autocratic

Reflect on control, force, and whether you limit others.

How controlling or forceful am I?
Do I use power in ways that limit others' contribution?

Progress Score

Total Questions Explored 0

Total Questions Available 58

Completion 0%

The total is the total number of questions explored by the reader.

Caution

AI generated content. These are self learning notes.