Step into Leadership

Plan Your Pathway

Everyone’s leadership learning is different. We’ve put together a selection of tools to help you assess where you are now, and what you want to achieve on your leadership journey.

Step 1: My leadership now

Use the following resources to build a picture of your current leadership strengths and areas for development.

• Reflecting on Leadership Guidance to help you reflect.
• Reflective Questions 1 Think about your current leadership skills.
• How to find out your style of leadership This resource from Mindtools will help you to identify the leadership style that you naturally lean towards.

Step 2: Leadership capability feedback tool for frontline workers

• The Leadership Capability Feedback Tool

  The Frontline Worker Leadership Capability Feedback tool is designed to help frontline workers in social services and other public services, such as health, reflect on their leadership capability and identify strengths and areas for development.

  This 360 degree assessment is a process in which you rate your own leadership performance, and ask people who know you well in a work capacity to rate your performance too. Guidance on how to use the tool is provided throughout.

  Access the tool to create an account and begin your self-assessment. Once you have completed this, click on the feedback button to invite others who know you in a work capacity to provide feedback to you.

Step 3: What do I want to achieve?

• Reflective Questions 2 Your vision for your own leadership development.

Step 4: Planning my leadership learning pathway

• Leadership Capability WorkbookOnce you have gathered feedback through the Leadership Capability Feedback Tool, use this workbook to help you reflect on your results, and plan you priorities for development on Step into Leadership.