Lead Inside the Box

Appendix A: The Leadership Matrix Assessment

To assess your team members’ behaviors, examine how much leadership capital you’re investing in them. Ask yourself the questions in this Appendix about their delivery of results. Evaluate their behavior throughout the past year to avoid a “recency effect” skewing the results. As you answer the questions, write down instances of observed behaviors to support your answer. Having concrete examples allows you to identify targeted behaviors to change, or maintain, as the case might be. Those observations guide your provision of feedback and coaching to that team member so he knows what behaviors he needs to change. For each dimension or question, we’ve offered an example of clear documentation of an observed ...