By Brooke Trenwith
“How are my behaviours and mindset enabling or constraining my intended leadership impact and our organisation’s performance?”
This is the question that a Leadership Circle Profile™ answers. It is a 360° leadership assessment where you nominate evaluators from your boss, peers, direct reports and others to see how your leadership is perceived – by others and yourself.
It separates leadership qualities in Creative Competencies and Reactive Tendencies in either a full Leadership Circle Profile™ or a Leadership Circle Profile™ Manager Edition.
Leadership Circle 360 Profile™
Creative Competencies
Reactive Tendencies
| Relating * Caring * Connection * Fosters Team Play * Collaborator * Mentoring & Developing * Interpersonal Intelligence | Self Awareness * Selfless leader * Balance * Composure * Personal Leader | Complying * Conservative * Pleasing * Belonging * Passive |
| Achievement * Strategic Thinking * Purposeful & Visionary * Achieves Results * Decisiveness | Systems Awareness * Community Concern * Sustainable Productivity * Systems Thinker | Protecting * Arrogance * Critical * Distance |
| Authenticity * Integrity * Courageous Authenticity | Controlling * Perfect * Driven * Ambition * Autocratic |
Leadership Circle 360 Profile™ – Manager Edition
Creative Competencies
Reactive Tendencies
| Relating * Caring * Mentoring * Teamwork * Interpersonal | Being * Balance * Composure * Integrity * Courage | Achieving * Vision * Strategy * Results * Decisions | Complying * Pleasing * Belonging * Passive | Protecting * Distant * Critical * Arrogant | Controlling * Autocratic * Ambitious * Perfectionist |
The Leadership Circle Profile™ gives us clear guidance of what is working and what is not and forms a strong basis of data for coaching conversations. It also highlights the narratives from prior leadership experiences that are still influencing our leadership as it is habits of thought that run much of our behaviour. The results measure our behaviour, underlying beliefs and assumptions which allow us to focus on where we need to make transformative change.
The full profile is perfect for those in SLT while the Manager’s Edition is there to support team leaders or heads of faculty. You can read two New Zealand case studies of using the Leadership Circle® in schools here:
Te Oko Horoi Kaahui Ako with Potential to Performance
Kristin School with their in-house Adaptive Leaders Programme
Two coaching sessions are included to help you understand the results of your Leadership Circle Profile™ and we set up an action plan to help you respond to your data. The accompanied manual also provides you with strategies to begin to shift your impact in the areas you have identified.
“To be at your best, you need to understand how you see yourself as a leader and more importantly, how those you lead see you. The Leadership Circle® gives you that insight on how you show up in different forums and situations. This is the most powerful and insightful tool that I have been part of in my 16 years of principalship.”
Principal, a member of Te Oko Horoi Kaahui Ako
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