Assessing Your Current
Transformational Leadership Skills
In organizations committed to women’s leadership development and ensuring a pipeline of women leaders for thefuture, it’s important to help them develop the knowledge and skills to move into a more transformative leadershipstate. Transformational leaders are especially qualified to help lead in times of disruption, and well-positioned toinspire their team to collaborate, innovate, and motivate.
Complete this assessment (and/or share with the appropriate colleagues) to determine your current transformational
leadership skills.
Instructions: For each of the 10 essential skills listed below, place a check mark under the rating from 1–10 that you
believe reflects your current abilities. Consider how your manager or someone from your team would rate you onthese skills. A 10 rating means that you are extremely strong in that area; a 1 rating means that you need to greatly
improve. Guidelines to help you determine an appropriate rating are listed below.
Guidelines:• 9 or 10: You regularly practice this skill, proactively advocate for it, and are known for your expertise in it. For
some skills, you have taken a lead role in building them as a competency within your organization (e.g. change
management, team-building, or strategic planning).
• 7 or 8: You strongly believe in the importance of this skill and have made some attempts at developing it yourself.
However, you are not quite at the level you’d like to be due to a lack of time and/or other factors.
• 5 or 6: You recognize the value of this skill but have not been able to make it a priority consistently. You have never
had a mentor who could help you become more proficient.
• 3 or 4: You lack a clear understanding of this skill. With adequate training and/or exposure, you would consider
making it more of an area of emphasis.
• 1 or 2: You have no familiarity with this skill. You have never worked in an environment where it was valued.
As a result, it is not something in which you have expertise.

Ratings:

12

34

56

7

1. Emotional Intelligence
2. Adaptability
3. Team-Building
4. Inspired Vision
5. Culture Optimization
6. Collaboration
7. Change Management
8. Organizational Alignment
9. Knowledge Sharing and Retention
10. Strategic Planning
Transfer your ratings in column 2 of the “Mapping Your Skills to Your Organization” page.

8910Mapping Your Skills to Your Organization
Instructions: In columns 3 and 4, rank order the 10 skills from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest). Add the numbers in columns 3 and 4 toobtain a total and write the total in column 5.

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Essential
Transformational
Leadership Skill

Your Current
Personal Rating

Level of Importanceto Your Organization

Current Level of
Need Within Your
Organization

Total Organizational
Value Assigned

EmotionalIntelligence
Adaptability
Team-Building
Inspired Vision
Culture Optimization
Collaboration
Change Management
Organizational
Alignment
Knowledge Sharingand Retention
Strategic Planning

Interpretation of Results:• If Your Current Personal Rating is >5 and your Total Organizational Value Assigned is >10, you should consider
this an Opportunity.
• If Your Current Personal Rating is <5 and your Total Organizational Value Assigned is >10, you should consider
this a Threat.
• When the Total Organizational Value Assigned is <10, that particular skill is not important enough withinyour current environment to be a major focal area for you (at least in the short term). You should stilldevelop the skill if you feel that it will be valuable later in your career.

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