Leadership and Management Skills Audit

(based on the National Occupational Standards for Leadership and Management)

Name: Course: Year: 2012 Date:

Instructions

Consider the skills listed below and rate how important you think each skill is for your job and for your future job and how competent you are in
this skill.
Consider how each of these skills may enhance your performance, and allow you to develop and advance further.

Once you have rated yourself, multiply the number in the column marked ‘Competence’ with that in the column ‘Job Importance’. So, for
example, if you feel that you are not very proficient in managing your own resources (priorities, objectives, time, getting feedback) (i.e. you
have rated your competence at 4), but that these skills are very important for employment (i.e. you have rated it at 5), then your overall total
score would be 5 X 4 = 20.

Competence – How competent are you in Job Importance – How important do you
this skill? think this skill is in Employment?
1. Highly proficient 1. Unnecessary
2. Fairly proficient 2. Not very important
3. Adequate 3. Helpful
4. Not very proficient 4. Fairly important
5. Unskilled 5. Essential
 SKILL COMPETENCE IMPORTANCE IMPORTANCE COMPETEN EVIDENCE FOR YOUR
For current position For future position CE LEVEL OF
X COMPETENCE
JOB
IMPORTANC
E
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Current Future
Managing Self and Personal Skills
Manage own resources (priorities,
objectives, time, getting feedback)
Manage own professional development
Providing Direction
Provide leadership
Promote equality of opportunity, diversity
and inclusion
Facilitate Change
Encourage Innovation
Plan and implement change
Working with People
Develop productive working
relationships with colleagues
Recruit, select and keep colleagues
Allocate and monitor progress and quality
of work
Provide learning opportunities for
colleagues
Help team members address problems
affecting their performance
Build and manage teams
Reduce and manage conflict
Lead meetings
Participate in meetings
Initiate and follow
disciplinary/grievance procedures
Using Resources
Manage a budget
Ensure health and safety requirements are
met
SKILL COMPETENCE JOB COMPETENC EVIDENCE FOR YOUR
IMPORTANCE E LEVEL OF
X COMPETENCE
JOB
IMPORTANCE
Manage physical resources
Take effective decisions (based on
analysis of available information)
Communicate information and
knowledge
Achieving Results
Manage a project
Manage the delivery of a customer
service