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A Checklist for testing controlling skills YES NO

Do I maintain a balance between controlling too tightly
or giving too much freedom to the team?

Am I able to co-ordinate work-in-progress, bringing
together all the parts in proper relation with each other?

In technical work, do I ensure that team and individual
needs are met?

Do meetings I chair run over time(s) allotted to topics?
Do I have proper budgets and ways of monitoring actual
performance?
Do customers rate my organisation’s control systems for:

– quality of product/service

– delivery

– costs

– safety?

5 Evaluating
Leaders need to be good at:

• assessing the consequences
• evaluating team performance
• appraising and training individuals

• judging people.
In assessing the consequences, leaders should be able to foresee the
outcome of action (or inaction) in terms of the technical, the
financial and the human and to ask probing questions of the team
in order to establish the likely consequences.

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