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Do your leadership habits hold under pressure?

A short self-assessment across the four FORGE domains: Clarity, Leverage, Influence, and Durability. See where your habits hold and where they slip. Then use your results to start the conversation with your company.

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How you rate yourself

For each habit, pick the level that fits you today. If you can't name an artifact or a recent example, choose “Not enough evidence to rate.”

1

Improvised

Re-decided each time, usually under pressure. No standing structure.

2

Deliberate

You know your approach and use it when you remember to. Reverts under load.

3

Defined

Explicit and written down. Holds most of the time. Others could describe it.

4

Designed

The default. Runs whether you're at ease or under pressure. Visible to the org and survives your absence.

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Rate what is true now, not what you intend to build. This is a self-assessment, not a validated test or a judgment of your leadership.

After you send it, I will review your answers and send your results shortly, including a focus area and one concrete move to try. AI will help prepare a draft assessment; I will review it before sharing it with you.

Two more choices. X — Deliberately not designed: you chose on purpose not to build this. Not enough evidence to rate: you cannot name an artifact or a recent example.

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In a few sentences: what were you brought in to do, how stable is that mandate, and what decisions or constraints sit outside your control? Avoid confidential names or details.

ClarityHow you make decisions and what you focus on.

I have clear criteria for what I decide, delegate, and leave alone—including which technical decisions I still go deep on, and why.

When everything is urgent, I use a standing filter for what gets in. My staff could apply it without me.

My calendar reflects my stated priorities. I have clear boundaries for what starts as an AI draft and what never does.

LeverageHow you get results through others.

I delegate by default, to people or AI agents where appropriate, rather than deciding again each time pressure rises.

A standing review rhythm moves work and catches small signs of decline without depending on my constant involvement.

Each direct report has a deliberate, written growth plan that we revisit on a standing rhythm.

I have an honest, written view of whom to grow, replace, or carry for now. My team has a shared purpose and can resolve its own conflict.

InfluenceHow you move what you do not control.

Before an executive decision meeting, I shape the narrative with a clear ask rather than trying to build support in the room.

I know whose alignment I need but do not control, starting with my manager. I keep those relationships warm on a deliberate rhythm.

I have a written, evidence-based view of how I land in rooms I do not run, with pre-decided responses for recurring hard moments.

DurabilityWhether it holds under load and over time.

I know the patterns I revert to under pressure and the signs that I am depleted. I use specific counters to both.

My organization could run for a month without me. Decision ownership and who steps in are clear.

Please avoid confidential names or details. — Art

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