Tools & Assessments
The Center for Positive Leadership offers a growing suite of tools designed to help people lead with greater virtue, purpose and impact.
What You Can Accomplish With Our Tools
Every tool serves one or more of three leadership goals:
- Develop Yourself – Understand your leadership tendencies and build a personal plan to make them more effective.
- Elevate Others – Create experiences that inspire the people around you to perform at their best.
- Shape Your Organization – Build the culture, systems and team environments where positive leadership becomes the norm.
Learn more about the benefits of our tools
Who Should Use Our Tools
Our tools are designed for anyone who leads or wants to lead – whether or not you hold a formal title. Throughout, we indicate which tools are especially useful for:
- Individuals – contributors building leadership skills, with or without direct reports
- Managers – people leading teams day to day
- Executives – senior leaders shaping strategy, culture, and systems
- Coaches & Facilitators – those developing leadership in others
- L&D Professionals – those designing leadership programs at scale
Learn how to utilize our assessments and get started with our tools
Build Your Toolkit: Start Here
Assessment is the foundation of development. Before choosing which tools are the right fit for you, it helps to understand where you are. The CPL offers assessments that serve as entry points to everything in this guide.
Self-Assessment: Short Version
A 10-minute online self-assessment that measures how you lead across key virtues – courage, compassion, humility, honesty and more. When you complete it, you receive a personalized report with your results.
Self-Assessment: Long Version
This assessment helps you reflect on your leadership tendencies, offers you some insight into these tendencies and connects you with tools for improving your leadership that will be especially useful for you.
Advanced Reflection
The purpose of this reflection is to help you learn, from your own experience, how to accomplish leadership again and again. It will help you to identify more nuanced patterns in your behaviors.
The Five Types of Tools
Every tool belongs to one of five problem types. What type of problem can we help you solve?
Motivational
How you energize – resilience, purpose and sustaining yourself and your team.
Decision-Making
How you choose – ethical reasoning, courage and judgment under pressure.
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