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HUMAN FRONTIER THINKING™

The Authenticity Index

A diagnostic for leadership authenticity.

Explore where your leadership actions are self-endorsed and where they may be externally supplied.

Begin the Index

POSITIONING TOOL, NOT PERSONALITY TEST

Answer from your genuine position, not the answer a leader is ‘supposed’ to give.

Choose from 1, Strongly Disagree, to 5, Strongly Agree. Your reading is an entry point into a coaching conversation, not a verdict.

Value Congruence

Do your leadership choices reflect what you genuinely believe, or what you have learned a leader should believe?

1. The decisions I make as a leader reflect what I genuinely believe, not just what is expected of me.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
2. I have defended a position at work that I would not stand behind anywhere else in my life.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
3. If someone challenged one of my leadership calls, I could explain the value behind it without hesitation.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
4. There is a gap between the leader I am in the room and the person I am when no one is watching.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
5. My values and my leadership choices are, for the most part, the same thing.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
6. I sometimes say what a leader is ‘supposed to’ say, rather than what I genuinely think.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree

Voice Ownership

When you lead, is it your own register or a performance of ‘leader’?

7. When I lead, I sound like myself, not like someone else’s idea of a leader.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
8. I have noticed myself adopting a different voice or manner the moment I am ‘in charge’.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
9. People who know me outside work would recognise me in how I lead.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
10. There is a version of ‘leadership’ I put on, the way you would put on a jacket.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
11. My leadership style feels like an extension of who I am, not a role I learned to play.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
12. I have modelled my leadership so closely on someone else that I sometimes lose track of where they end and I begin.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree

Motivational Source

Are you moving towards what you want, or away from disapproval?

13. Most of what I do as a leader, I do because I want to, not because I am afraid of what happens if I do not.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
14. A lot of my leadership behaviour is driven by not wanting to be judged or found wanting.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
15. I could describe what I am moving towards as a leader more easily than what I am moving away from.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
16. I make certain leadership choices mainly to avoid disapproval, not because I believe in them.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
17. My ambition as a leader feels like mine, not inherited from someone else’s expectations of me.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
18. If I am honest, some of my leadership behaviour is about proving something rather than building something.
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree

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