Transformational Leadership
Foundations Evaluation

This Transformational Leadership Foundations Evaluation tool is to help you understand, and evaluate yourself on, the first 40 of 200 capabilities that unlock truly transformational leadership.

These capabilities form part of the first spiral of Self-To-System™—uniquely comprehensive and cohesive brain-based transformational leadership curriculum. Our approach is “inside out”: because neurons, emotions, and brains have to change before mindsets, behaviors, and results change.

This is an introductory version of our Transformational Leadership Audit & Diagnostic—designed to start you on a journey of leadership mastery. Purchase a copy today for the full audit experience across the whole spectrum of our Self-To-System™ curriculum, or check out our customized Transformational Leadership Development programs for a bespoke program tailored to your organization.

The Aims of this Foundations Evaluation

To provide you with a framework that can help you navigate your development as a leader across five key ‘spirals’ of transformational leadership—from mastering the ‘inner’ game of excellence to leading excellence in the ‘outer’ games of influence and innovation
To help you understand the first 40 of 200 key capabilities that a transformational leader might want to develop to fulfil their potential to lead and land lasting, significant, and positive change
To help you explore your levels of mastery of each of these capabilities in a coherent way—and evaluate yourself on each
To identify specific capabilities you would like to develop more strength and mastery in
To empower you to take control of your development as a leader so you can unlock breakthroughs in one or more of the capabilities through the full Transformational Leadership Audit & Diagnostic.

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Complete the fields in the form below to audit yourself against the first 40 capabilities, and then create a plan for developing further in one or two of them.

When you submit the form, you’ll receive a graphical chart to visually represent your current position.

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1. Understand the role and dynamics of self-awareness and self-efficacy in leadership effectiveness
2. Sense, feel, and reflect on different cognitive and somatic states and whether they are effective and appropriate to the moment
3. Know what triggers and derails specific states and what inspires and elevates other states
4. Reach and embody specific states to produce desired outcomes (e.g. control or empathy)
5. Use mindset and embodiment practices to shift between various states (e.g. openness, curiosity, humility vs. certainty, focus, confidence)

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6. Understand the role and dynamics of emotions and somatic sensations in leadership effectiveness
7. Seek to feel and understand anxious and destabilizing emotions and somatic sensations rather than repress, suppress, numb, or act out
8. Track how anxious and destabilizing emotions and bodily sensations change and translate them into words for sharing
9. Regulate emotions and bodily sensations, particularly when feeling upset, overwhelmed, or shut down
10. Transform anxious and destabilizing emotions and somatic sensations into energizing and stabilizing emotions and somatic sensations

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11. Understand the role and dynamics of limiting vs. liberating cognitive biases, assumptions, beliefs, self-talk, and projections in leadership effectiveness
12. Reflect on own cognitive biases, assumptions, beliefs, self-talk, and projections and identify where they may be inaccurate
13. Give up being right and certain about biases, assumptions, beliefs, self-talk, and projections in order to be curious and creative
14. Consistently and kindly challenge own and others limiting biases, beliefs, assumptions, self-talk, and projections
15. Transform limiting biases, assumptions, beliefs, self-talk, and projections to be liberating/empowering

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16. Understand the role of ineffective/sabotaging vs. effective/serving behaviors and habits in leadership effectiveness
17. Identify when reacting to challenges with stress response behaviors—fight, flight, freeze, or fawn (people pleasing)—and move to change
18. Take responsibility for ineffective/sabotaging behaviors and habits rather than blaming, shaming, or complaining
19. Identify and release the somatic sensations, emotions, beliefs, and behaviors that constitute ineffective/sabotaging habits
20. Accelerate the building of effective/serving habits through cultivating specific somatic sensations, emotions, beliefs, and behaviors

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21. Understand the role and dynamics of physical, psychological, and existential stress and resilience in leadership effectiveness
22. Build robustness to bounce back quickly from challenges, crises, disappointments, and frustrations
23. Spot early physical and psychological signals of overwhelm and course correct through self-care
24. Identify what most impacts personal resilience and utilize recovery practices to reduce overwhelm, exhaustion, and stress
25. Proactively build physical, psychological, and existential resilience to unlock sustained high performance

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26. Understand the impact of, and the importance of transforming, difficult emotions and memories in leadership effectiveness
27. Accept difficult emotions and memories, potentially from traumatic experiences, and seek peer and professional support when appropriate
28. Engage with tools and practices that can help to process and release difficult emotions and memories
29. Engage with tools and practices that can help to transform and heal difficult emotions and memories to unlock stored-up energy, aliveness, and potency that is blocked by trauma
30. Consciously cultivate more self-acceptance, self-compassion, and self-forgiveness to accelerate the journey of grieving, healing, and becoming more whole

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31. Understand the roles of attention, time, energy, and boundary management in leadership effectiveness
32. Manage attention effectively by reducing noise, minimizing multi-tasking, and avoiding overwhelm
33. Manage time effectively to prioritize specific outcomes, goals, and value
34. Manage energy effectively to maintain strength to engage in crises, challenges, and change
35. Manage boundaries effectively to ensure the necessary time, attention, and energy for reflection, connection, and creativity

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36. Understand the roles of agency and a growth mindset in leadership effectiveness
37. Self-initiate goals, self-motivate action, and self-correct activities to achieve desired results
38. Celebrate courage, persistence, and effort as much as results and success
39. Leverage mistakes, meltdowns, and breakdowns as opportunities to learn and transform
40. Cultivate a childlike sense of curiosity, humility, and possibility in the face of challenge, change, and crisis

Transformational Leadership Foundations Evaluation

The Aims of this Foundations Evaluation

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Spiral 1: Leading Self

Transformational Leadership
Foundations Evaluation