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Leadership Synergy Scale
PsyOpus — Confidential Survey
Instructions
This questionnaire asks you to rate the performance of the Designated Team Leader. Your responses are confidential and will be used to provide feedback on leadership effectiveness.
If you are the Designated Team Leader, please rate your own performance as honestly as possible.
- Please answer all questions, even if you are not completely sure of an answer.
- Please answer honestly.
- Do not spend too much time on one question — your first response is usually the most accurate.
50 scored items · Estimated time: 10 minutes
Leadership Assessment
The following questions ask you to rate the performance of the Designated Team Leader. If you are the Designated Team Leader, please rate your own performance.
Full name of Designated Team Leader: _______________
| Please circle the number that best matches your response for each question. | Strongly Disagree1 | Disagree2 | Disagree just a little3 | Neither Agree nor Disagree4 | Agree just a little5 | Agree6 | Strongly Agree7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.The team leader did not know how to let the team work freely | |||||||
| 2.The team leader waited for things to go wrong before taking action | |||||||
| 3.The team leader was able to gain different perspectives when solving problems | |||||||
| 4.The team leader was instrumental in the success of the team's performance | |||||||
| 5.The team leader was very dictatorial | |||||||
| 6.The team leader motivated the team members to try harder | |||||||
| 7.The team leader was able to get team members to work beyond their abilities | |||||||
| 8.The team leader waited for things to go wrong before getting involved | |||||||
| 9.The team leader wanted to be in control | |||||||
| 10.The team leader knew when to put the team's needs before his/her own | |||||||
| 11.The team leader's ego did not get in the way of what the team needed | |||||||
| 12.The team leader heightened the team's desire to succeed | |||||||
| 13.The team leader was able to allow for creative solutions to emerge from within the team | |||||||
| 14.The team leader was clear about who should be doing what in the team | |||||||
| 15.The team leader was absent when key decisions needed to be made | |||||||
| 16.The team leader had no trouble changing the direction of the team if it required it | |||||||
| 17.The team leader was able to correct bad performance by the team members | |||||||
| 18.The team leader could not help but control everything | |||||||
| 19.The team leader was able to reward good performance by the team members | |||||||
| 20.The team leader did not get stuck on details but moved on when the situation required it | |||||||
| 21.The team leader delayed responding to urgent information | |||||||
| 22.The team leader was effective in achieving the goals of the team | |||||||
| 23.The team leader was clear what goals were needed to be achieved by the team | |||||||
| 24.The team leader was always dictating to the team | |||||||
| 25.The team leader only intervened when problems became serious | |||||||
| 26.The team leader dismissed the team's input and did what they wanted | |||||||
| 27.The team leader was positive about the team's ability to solve problems | |||||||
| 28.The team leader was interested in getting his/her own way | |||||||
| 29.The team leader was effective in helping others develop their strengths | |||||||
| 30.The team leader became anxious about others in the team making decisions | |||||||
| 31.The team leader was able to deal with uncertainty | |||||||
| 32.The team leader never lost faith in the team to solve problems and achieve its goals | |||||||
| 33.The team leader avoided making key decisions when it was required | |||||||
| 34.The team leader was able to consider the different skills and talents of each team member | |||||||
| 35.The team leader could change the team direction at a moments notice | |||||||
| 36.The team leader was able to stay on task at all times | |||||||
| 37.The team leader was able to remain calm and adapt to new situations | |||||||
| 38.The team leader avoided conflict that could have led to effective decisions | |||||||
| 39.The team leader was able to get people to look at problems from many different angles | |||||||
| 40.The team leader could adapt quickly to new and important information | |||||||
| 41.The team leader gave the impression it was 'my way or the highway' | |||||||
| 42.The team leader knew how to get the very best out of the team | |||||||
| 43.The team leader always wanted to direct the team without consultation | |||||||
| 44.The team leader could not help but control every decision | |||||||
| 45.The team leader nearly always directed the team without consideration of the team's input | |||||||
| 46.The team leader was more mindful of the team's performance rather than his/her own performance | |||||||
| 47.The team leader could concentrate on dealing with mistakes made by the team | |||||||
| 48.The team leader had a very authoritarian style of leadership | |||||||
| 49.The team leader knew how to let the team solve the problems and not champion his/her own solutions | |||||||
| 50.The team leader respected the views and opinions of all the team members |
Your identity will be anonymized upon submission. Skipping individual items will not invalidate your response.
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