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38 ■ Develop your leadership skills
have been entrusted to them for achieving their agreed objec-
tives.
Success at directing, regulating, restraining or encouraging
individual and team efforts on the task (and in meetings) is the
criterion for testing a leader’s effectiveness as a ‘controller’.
Checklist for testing controlling skills
Yes No
Do I maintain a balance between
controlling too tightly and giving too
much freedom to the team?
Am I able to coordinate work-in-progress,
bringing together all the parts
in proper relation to 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?
