The Leadership Skills Audit

A guide to measuring and improving the effectiveness of leaders at every level of your organisation

Leadership skills are among the hardest to assess or measure objectively. Typically, senior executives will trust their own instincts when judging leadership ability - making it difficult to implement a company-wide program of training and improvement. The Leadership Skills Audit provides a definitive measure of leadership skills and ability, including:

  • A 3-point definition of leadership
  • 6 main inhibitors to leadership development
  • How to identify the competencies most vital to leaders in your organization
  • How to develop a leadership model that's appropriate to your organization
  • Developing a leadership performance profile
  • How to administer the profiles and get feedback
  • 4 rules for analysing the resulting profile data
  • How to use and communicate data derived from the audit
  • How to build the leadership skills audit process into an annual cycle
  • How to use the assessment data to build a comprehensive, targeted leadership skills training program

Leadership skills are an intrinsic part of the skill-set required to implement changes identified by many of the other HR audits. Performance management, managing organisational change, teamwork and improved employee motivation, for example, all depend on strong leadership skills. This audit will help you understand how well your business is doing, and where additional training and support is needed, to deliver the kind of leadership skills that it requires.

[This audit focuses on the leadership skills of individuals. For an audit of your organisation’s overall approach to leadership as a business resource, look at The Organisational Leadership Audit.]