Question 1: Why, What, How, and Way

Do I Align the Why (Purpose), What (Strategic Goals), How (the Plan) and Way (Values)?

It's important to ensure you think about what you are doing as a system of factors (the why, what, how and way) that need to be aligned to drive the behaviour and activity you need to deliver outstanding results.

Question 2: Crafting Solutions

Do I Craft Solutions That Enable the Emergence of a High-Performance Culture?

As a leader, you need to look at context you are in and craft suitable solutions that enable a culture of high-performance to emerge.

Question 3: Building Confidence

Do I Actively Build the Confidence of My Team?

Confidence is a key performance factor. Building confidence in people is a key element of leadership if you want to deliver the best results.

Question 4: Reflection and Learning

Do I Promote and Value Time for Reflection and Learning?

In a world moving so fast one way to keep in control is to ensure your team reflects, learns and takes action on the learning. Teams and individuals then develop, grow and work in the most effective way.

Question 5: Achieving Simplicity

Do I Keep Things Simple and Give Meaning To Strategy and Plans?

In a complex world we need to break the complex down and make it simple for people to understand and take action. We need to communicate plans with meaning.

Question 6: Exploring Boldness

Do I Consistently Operate With Boldness and Think Big?

Boldness is around being on purpose, honest, value-led, open, and speaking your mind. We need to step outside our comfort zones and think big.

Question 7: Vitality

Do I Keep Myself Fit and Healthy?

Keeping strong and healthy as a leader in today’s tough world is vital. Vitality and energy are important for resiliency.

Question 8: Building a Brand

Do I Have a Clearly Articulated Leadership Brand?

You need to build a Leadership Brand and be able to talk about your leadership philosophy so people understand and trust you.

Question 9: Inspiring Action

Do I Role Model Belief and Commitment to the Organisation?

You need to create a framework that provides direction and flexibility. Then you need to role model the way.

Question 10: A Purpose-Maximiser

Do I Inspire a Shared Purpose?

As leaders we need to be purpose-maximisers and inspire action. We need to be purpose led.

Question 11: High-Performance

Do I Know How to Create High-Performance Teams?

Leaders need to know how to create a high performance team - quickly. We need to set our teams up for success.

Question 12: Sustenance

Do I Know How to Sustain High-Performance in Teams Over the Long Term?

Your job is to coach and develop a self-managing team and make yourself ultimately redundant.

Question 13: Innovation

Do I Create a Culture of Innovation in All Areas?

Leaders need to ensure everyone wants to come up with ideas that are implemented to add value. Leaders need to unleash innovation.

Question 14: Exploration

Do I Get Outside My Sector and Explore Insights and Ideas from Others?

You need to build partnerships and networks outside of your organisation to drive ideas and insights.

Question 15: Managing Ambiguity

Do I Use One-Page Strategies and Plans?

You need to make the complex simple and understand the need to be agile. Plans need to inspire action and evolve.

Question 16: Killing Risk

Do I Identify and Kill Risk Early?

When you manage risk correctly, you can start to take more risks. Identify and kill risk early.

Question 17: Educating People

Do I Focus on Learning from Success and Failure?

Mistakes will happen but it’s only failure if learning isn’t applied. We can also learn from our successes.

Question 18: Encouragement

Do I Encourage People to Be the Best They Can Be?

By changing the way people think, feel and do, it accelerates action. Leaders need to awaken possibility in people to deliver extraordinary results.

Question 19: Delivering at Pace

Do I Always Run Meetings That Inspire Action?

A leader must inspire people and drive action at pace.

Question 20: Accountability

Do I Always Hold People Accountable?

It’s important to have regular learning reviews to keep your teams on track. You need to hold people to account.