The Leadership Motivation Assesment

How motivated are you to lead?

The first and most basic prerequisite for leadership is the desire to lead. After all, becoming an effective leader takes hard work. If you're not prepared to work hard at developing your leadership skills or if, deep down, you're really not sure whether you want to lead or not, you'll struggle to become an effective leader.

 RESULTS

Total = 56

Score Interpretation

Score	Comment
14-27	This implies a low motivation to lead
28-55	This implies some uncertainty over your motivation to lead
56-70	This implies a strong motivation to lead.

 Source: This set of questions was constructed for this self-assessment and for illustrative purposes only. No prior validation work has been conducted that enables us to address the construct validity of this assessment. This self-assessment was patterned after that of A. J. DuBrin in Leadership: Research Findings, Practice and Skills (2nd edition) (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998). Pp. 10-11.

Armed with the results from this self-test, your next step depends on your situation.

If you have found that you're strongly motivated to lead, and you're already a leader – great! And if you're not already a leader, this is definitely an area you should investigate as you plan your career development.

On the other hand, if your score indicates that you don't have a strong motivation to lead, and you're considering moving into this area, you may want to look at other career options before you make a decision. Our article on Finding Career Direction will help you work through a process to find out what type of work does motivate you.

But if you're already a leader and you're just going through a low patch in the role, try out leadership motivation tools and regain the enthusiasm for the job that took you into leadership in the first place!

Areas to Improve

The results show that I have already a strong motivation lead, however, it is necessary to improve further becausa the results are almost at the limit. This mean according to the analysis that shows the test, I need no have more enthusiasm an motivation to develop some tools to make leadership a priority in my life. Summarizing, the area to improve is the motivation of leading, directing and desire to be satisfied with the job. I think a good way to improve these aspects is reading any book related to motivation o try to fin all the positive aspects of being a leader and identify actions to take.