Are You A Leader Checklist

Are You a Leader?
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ProjectManagement.com Are You a Leader?
Being a leader requires more than managing the mechanics of a project. Do you have
the vision and the attitude of a leader? Use this checklist to evaluate your leadership
skills as a project manager.
 Do you encourage your team members to set their own clear and interesting
performance goals with your input?
 Do you inspire by example?
 Do you teach others how to evaluate their own performance?
 Do you encourage and explore the feasibility of applying innovative ideas offered by
team members?
 Do you take deliberate action to provide team members with the training they need to
excel in their roles?
 Do you anticipate needs, problems and issues before being told that action is
needed?
 Do you outwardly seek responsibility rather than just accept it when it is assigned to
you?
 Do you accept high risks when they have the potential to result in greater progress,
rather than take only modest risks with favorable odds?
 Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit and break rules, rather than behave strictly as
a “company person?”
 Do you seek demanding opportunities rather than accept comfortable assignments?
 Do you set demanding goals rather than modest goals for your team members?
 Do you challenge rather than pacify your team members?
 Are you quick to acknowledge and reward performance by individuals who contribute
to the success of the team?
 Are your actions congruent with your values (do you “walk the talk”)?
 Do you honor and respect the unique skills, experience, knowledge and contributions
of all team members?
 Do you know who your internal and external customers are?
 Do you seek feedback regularly from current customers on how satisfied they are
and how your products and services could be improved?
 Are you aggressive about tapping into the resources within your organization that
can help you serve your customers?
 Do you effectively resolve conflicts with customers without loss of goodwill to the
organization?
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 Do you regularly think of new ways to add value for the customer?
 Do you give your team members the authority they need to resolve customer issues
"on-the-spot" as much as possible?
 Do you acknowledge others when they attempt to put the customer first, even if their
efforts don’t yield the expected results?
 Do you coach team members for their own professional growth and development as
well as for results-oriented performance?
 Do you deliver truthful, direct, constructive communication?
 Are you committed to continually improving your communication and professional

relationship skills?
 Do you know how to ask clarifying questions that enable others to reveal
assumptions and behaviors that affect their ability to reach their goals?
 Do you trust others, and are you trustworthy?
 Are you known for seeking "win-win" solutions?
 Do you help team members understand how their personal vision is or is not aligned
with the organizational vision?
 Do you help team members realize unrealized potential?
 Do you have well-developed assessment and diagnostic skills?
 Do you challenge team members without making them feel criticized?
 Do you facilitate efficient team meetings that lead to measurable successes?
 Are you well versed in techniques for solving problems?
 Do you support your team by displaying courage in the face of negative feedback
from outside?
 Are you confident in your ability to work through conflicts?
 Do you set an example for appropriate team behavior?
 Do you keep the team focused on the objectives of the project?
 Are you accessible and do you promote a culture where people tell you good news
as well as bad?
 Do you anticipate change that may disrupt performance?
 Are you able to balance skill, flexibility and intuition when managing change?
 Are you comfortable being in the background when it is appropriate?
 Do you demonstrate the competencies to plan and manage special projects to meet
specific administrative, production, and improvement needs of the organization?
 Do you ensure that your projects have verifiable objectives?
 Do you impart professional wisdom and guidance to your project team so members
work easily and well with each other?
 Do you communicate project status to your team on a regular basis?
 Do you address project problems quickly and directly without blame or retribution
toward any one individual?
 Do you recognize the efforts of all members of the project team, not just those with
the more visible roles?
 Do you make a strong effort to protect the team from distractions that may disrupt
their focus?
 Are you conscious of the workloads of the team members and team leaders and
strive to maintain a healthy balance between the work and the resources available to
do it?
 Do you focus on the customers’ wishes and resist trying to make them pay for what
you think they need?
 Are you open to receiving all kinds of input from all kinds of sources, and are you
confident that you don’t always know what you don’t know?
 Are you comfortable knowing that you might not know all the answers, and willing,
without embarrassment or apology, to ask for help?
 Do you know how to ask for and respectfully utilize the support and talents of others?
 Do you participate in collaborative dialogue with others to generate creative solutions

to problems?
 Do you have a good understanding of your preferred learning style and are you
conscious of the different learning styles of others?
 Do you approach your projects as a real-time learning experience to be improved on

with successive projects?
 Do you cope productively with the frustrations and disappointments that accompany
the learning process?
 Do you make your team comfortable and confident with the learning process?
 Do you use your mistakes as an opportunity to learn rather than a reason to punish
yourself?
 Do you make a conscious effort to understand the business of your organization,

rather than just be an expert in your technical area?
 Do you make a conscious effort to understand the roles, responsibilities, and

challenges of others within the organization?
 Do you seek to build and honor relationships with others in the organization for the
sake of the relationships, not just because they can do something for you?
 Do you see yourself as a hub within a network, which is your organization?
 Do you practice active listening to others?
 Do you acknowledge in an appropriate way those who provide assistance to you?

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Are You a Leader?

 Do you inspire by example?

 Do you teach others how to evaluate their own performance?

 Do you seek demanding opportunities rather than accept comfortable assignments?

 Do you challenge rather than pacify your team members?

 Do you know who your internal and external customers are?

 Do you deliver truthful, direct, constructive communication?

 Are you committed to continually improving your communication and professional

 Do you trust others, and are you trustworthy?

 Are you known for seeking "win-win" solutions?

 Do you help team members realize unrealized potential?

 Do you have well-developed assessment and diagnostic skills?

 Do you challenge team members without making them feel criticized?

 Do you facilitate efficient team meetings that lead to measurable successes?

 Are you well versed in techniques for solving problems?

 Are you confident in your ability to work through conflicts?

 Do you set an example for appropriate team behavior?

 Do you keep the team focused on the objectives of the project?

 Do you anticipate change that may disrupt performance?

 Are you comfortable being in the background when it is appropriate?

 Do you ensure that your projects have verifiable objectives?

 Do you communicate project status to your team on a regular basis?

 Do you participate in collaborative dialogue with others to generate creative solutions

 Do you approach your projects as a real-time learning experience to be improved on

 Do you make a conscious effort to understand the business of your organization,

 Do you make a conscious effort to understand the roles, responsibilities, and

 Do you see yourself as a hub within a network, which is your organization?

 Do you practice active listening to others?

 Do you acknowledge in an appropriate way those who provide assistance to you?

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