Leadership & Management questionnaire

Questionaire -

Developing Your Skills in Leadership and Management

The aim of this Questionnaire is to invite you to reflect on the skills of leading and managing; and for you to clarify any areas of uncertainty about your role with your own leader / manager. You are being invited to think about the following:

The need for leading and managing in organisations
What you consider to be leadership and management skills
The place for these skills in your job for you to perform most effectively
The priority you attach to them
Your own reasons for attending this coaching process / development programme.

Providing at least 4 points in reply to each of the questions will be useful in creating discussions and input during our sessions together.

The more that you think about each question, the deeper you will find the importance of what it is you are being invited to think about. The questionnaire is about exploring perspectives, not about establishing right or wrong answers.

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1) Why do you think an organisation needs leaders and managers? (Please include 4 points)

2) What are the differences between your job and that of your staff / team? (Please include 4 differences)

3) What do you see as your key responsibilities? (You may wish to refer to your Job Description / Personnel Specification / previous Appraisals / Reviews etc) (Please include 4 points)

4) How is your work performance measured? (Please include 4 points)

5) What do you see as the most challenging interpersonal skills to apply well in your job? (Please include 4)

6) Often, it’s not what we do, it’s the way that we do it. What do you see as being the signs that would indicate continued success as a leader / manager? (You should also reflect on those signs of failure) (Please include 4 signs in your response)

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7) What would your closest work associates see as your role strengths? (You could also think of what your associates / partnerships outside work see as your strengths) (Please include 4 points)

8) What would these people see as any weakness or development needs? (You may have had feedback from others you could use here? (Please include 4 points in your response)

9) What ‘specifically’ would you want to cover in your coaching support / leadership and management development programme that you know would help you to achieve better results through others? (Please include 4 points in your response)

10) Your coaching support / leadership and management development programme / is an opportunity to practice and try out new skills and behaviours. What skills and behaviours would you like to practice? (Please include 4 skills / behaviours)

11) What do you hope to gain from attending the above? (Please include 4 points)

If there are any other comments or points you want to make that do not fit into the area above, please make a note of below: