Free self-assessment · 9 questions
The leadership story audit
Identify the beliefs shaping the way you lead.
Every senior leader runs on a few stories about control, trust, success and failure. Most were learned early and rewarded often, which is exactly why they're hard to see from the inside. Nine questions show you which one is doing the most work in how you lead right now. The worksheet that follows takes it apart.
Take the auditFree. Your result and worksheet arrive by email.
The beliefs that got you here are still making your decisions.
Somewhere along the way, staying close to everything got you promoted. Caution kept you safe. Having the answer earned respect. Hitting the number was the measure that mattered.
Those lessons became stories, and the stories became the way you lead. Some of them still hold. Others now cost you, and your team, more than they give back. You rarely notice which is which, because a story you live inside looks like the way things are.
This audit is a way to see them clearly enough to decide.
What the audit looks at
Seven stories leaders tell themselves
You'll recognize more than one. The audit shows which is running hardest right now, then gives you a way to question all seven.
“If I don't stay involved, standards will drop.”
“People have to prove themselves before I hand them anything that matters.”
“I'm only as good as the last result.”
“If something goes wrong here, it's mine to carry.”
“My job is to have the answer.”
“By the time I've explained it, I could have done it myself.”
“One serious failure and it's over.”
Which of these did you learn earliest, and which still gets rewarded?
How it works
1
Answer nine questions
Real situations senior leaders face. Answer with what you'd actually do on a normal Tuesday.
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See your leadership story
Your answers point to one of four stories. You'll see what it says, where it tends to come from and what it costs.
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Work through the worksheet
A printable PDF that takes your story apart question by question, plus an audit of all seven.
Which story is running the way you lead?
Nine questions. A named result. A worksheet you'll want to do on paper.
Take the auditBefore you start
A few details first. Your result shows on screen, and your worksheet arrives by email.