7 Questions to Measure your Leadership

Here is a post from one of my favorite leadership writers Dan Rockwell. I highly recommend his blog, he writes something everyday and his content is excellent. 

Let me know your thoughts on this. 

7 SURPRISING QUESTIONS TO MEASURE YOUR LEADERSHIP

November 17, 2015

You can’t know how you’re doing until you’re measured.

Evaluation might feel uncomfortable, but the alternative is self-deception, lost potential, and mediocrity.

7 surprising questions to measure your leadership:

1. How are you becoming dispensable?
   • Create systems that function without you.
   • Give control with accountability.
   • Develop vision as a team, not an individual.
   • Build redundant talent. Cross-train and rotate jobs.
2. How are you making it safe for teammates to speak truth to power?
   • Listen calmly.
   • Honor constructive dissent.
   • Lower the volume of your voice.
   • Smile.
   • Avoid power positions. Sit in lower seats.
3. How are you expanding organizational capacity?
   • What have you recently let go?
   • What have you learned from failure?
   • Who are you mentoring?
4. How are you learning?
   • What are teammates teaching you? You aren’t smarter than everyone on your team, are you?
   • What are you reading?
   • How are you connecting with people that excel beyond your achievements?
5. How are you making yourself accountable to those you serve?
   • Complete this sentence. “I’m accountable to _______ (insert a behavior) my employees.
   • My team members know I’m accountable to them because I _______.
   • What character quality are you developing? Who’s asking you about it?
6. How are you actively seeking feedback?
   • Open yourself to 360 degree evaluations. What might those closest to you say, if they were completely safe?
   • Don’t tell teammates what you’re doing. Ask them to explain your goals and priorities based on your behaviors.
   • What questions do you ask others about your leadership?
7. How are you making others feel powerful?
   • Trust people to take on big challenges.
   • Provide coaching and training.
   • Focus more on maximizing strengths than fixing weaknesses.
   • Connect their values to leadership roles and goals.

Evaluation:

1. Confronts self-deception.
2. Minimizes waste.
3. Expands potential.
4. Identifies capacity.
5. Invites development.

How might leaders evaluate their leadership?