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-Pamela Alarie, HR Director, Beacon Mutual Insurance Company

Powerful Leadership Skills

Do You Want to Know What Behavior Changes You Need to make to Become a Powerful Leader?

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Instructions:
Leaders can gauge their “tensile strength” by taking this quick pop quiz, and s Count your no answers and find out your leadership tensile* strength.
1. I will look bad if I need to ask for help too much. True False
2. When persuading others, I can't seem to strike an effective balance of demonstrating emotion and presenting the facts. True False
3. I am great at solving immediate problems; just don't have sustainable solutions. True False
4. Hiring the right employee for the right position within my organization seems to be based mostly on luck. True False
5. I know I need to meet with employees for employee involvement but I keep putting it off. True False
6. I rely on HR (or someone else) to have my difficult conversations for me with employees since I don't know how, or resist approaching them. True False
7. I have problem employees but I am conflicted about dealing with them, and delay acting. True False
8. I know poor performance when I see it, but can't articulate it in effective performance feedback. True False
9. I know that the writing down of goals is 80% of achieving them, but I don't do it. True False
10. I need a self-"training" plan that I can see will build my leadership strength predictably over time. True False

*Tensile: capable of being stretched or extended

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