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These leadership questions were part of our annual leadership challenge event this past weekend. Scouts were asked to evaluate their leadership skills at the beginning and the end of the weekend by rating themselves on how well the understood and applied these concepts. These evaluations were done for the Scouts themselves, we did not collect them or read them; they did have a chance to discuss these leadership questions and where they thought they improved over the weekend.
This Leadership Self-Evaluation (PDF File) includes the leadership questions and a rating chart. You can use these leadership questions as a tool for opening a discussion with your Scouts or fellow adult volunteers.
Leadership-Behavior – How well do you
Treat everyone with dignity & respect?
Help others at all times?
Admit to & correct your mistakes?
Competence – How well do you
Know and apply skills
Set goals & follow through?
Pay attention to others?
Communication – How well do you
Give & get directions & information?
Inform others as situations change?
Listen actively?
Ask questions if you don’t understand?
Judgment & Decision Making – How well do you
Use all resources, & information?
Understand clear limits & boundaries?
Know what matters to others?
Tolerance for Adversity & Uncertainty – How well do you
Respond positively when things change?
Turn challenge into opportunity?
Endure & enjoy challenge?
Self-Awareness – How well do you
Understand your abilities, & limitations?
Learn from experience & improve?
Hold yourself accountable?
Vision & Action – How well do you
Use your initiative to make things happen?
Figure out what needs to be done & do it?
Encourage and help others?
I’d be inclined to use a behavioral interviewing style, rather than a “what if” style. Everybody is pretty capable when guessing about what they would do.
Instead of “How well do you admit to and correct your mistakes?” I might use these:
Tell me about a time when you made a mistake. [listen] Did it (would it) help to admit the mistake?
Tell me about a time when you changed what you do after a mistake?
What was a recent important mistake?
I don’t see the rating chart? Is this the 1-5 rating? I may have misunderstood I was expecting a chart that related scores to skills or abilities.
Once again – this is a self evaluation tool, not a way to rate your skills in comparison to others or score them against an ideal rating. The PDF version linked in the post does have a 1-10 grid to rate yourself and to return to later to see if you think you have improved.
This is a great tool to use. Very appropos as well, our next roundtable the topic is leadership. Our patrol is in charge of the skills portion and this is the type of thing that we were going to be using. Is there an accompanying score sheet to give an idea of what each score range means?
This is a self-evaluation tool- the scoring is just a means of gauging your own performance between 1-10 (1 being “I don’t do this well or at all” and 10 being “I do this well or all the time”). It’s not intended to be a assessment tool to compare yourself with others, or to create a cumulative score. It’s intended to get us thinking.