Worksheet 6: Leadership & Tone Setting

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High Performance Leadership Teams

Worksheet · Success Factor 6

Leadership & Tone Setting

A reflection tool for the leader -- and a feedback tool for the team. Two perspectives, one conversation.

This worksheet has two parts: one for the leader to complete individually, one for the team. Both feed into a shared conversation.

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Part 1

For The Leader

Guiding Questions

Where do you see behaviours in yourself that are productive for what you want to build -- and where do you see behaviours that work against it?
Where are you still leading from ego rather than from purpose -- and what does that cost the team?
When did you last genuinely change your position based on your team's input? What made that possible -- or what got in the way?

	Consistently	Sometimes	Rarely
I openly admit mistakes in front of the team
I actively seek disagreement -- and reward it with attention
I invite the quieter voices into the conversation
I tend to team relationships -- not just task and output
I model the behaviours I'm asking my team to show

Why this matters

The leader is the single highest-leverage variable in team climate. Every behaviour you model -- including the ones you're unaware of -- gives the team permission to do the same. Or not.

Your Notes

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Part 2

For The Team

Guiding Questions

What do we as a team need from our leader -- in terms of tone, clarity, presence, and how we're addressed?
Where can we as a team support our leader more actively -- and what do we need in return?

	What we'd ask you to stop	What we'd ask you to start	What we want you to keep
Tone & presence
Clarity & direction
How you handle conflict
How you tend to us as people

Why this matters

Most leaders never hear this directly. Most teams never say it directly. This is the moment to do both -- with care, and with honesty.

Your Notes

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Part 3

The Loop Back

This is the final worksheet in the series. Mark the factors you're actively working on. These are your focus areas for the synthesis conversation.

Focus	Success Factor	Strength	Work in Progress	Our Biggest Gap	Notes / Actions
	Shared Direction
	Behavioural Integration
	Accountability & Structure
	Psychological Safety
	Productive Conflict
	Leadership & Tone Setting

Why this matters

The six factors don't work in isolation. The loop-back makes the pattern visible -- where does leadership need to show up most, given where the team actually is?

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Synthesis

What We're Building Together

Three commitments -- one for the leader, one for the team, one shared.

Leader: One behaviour I commit to changing -- specific, observable, starting now

Team: One way we commit to supporting our leader -- and each other -- differently

Together: What kind of leadership team do we want to be -- in one sentence we'd be proud to read aloud in a year

Tips & Tricks

The shared sentence isn't a mission statement -- it's a behavioural promise. Keep it honest, not aspirational.
The most powerful outcome of this worksheet isn't a list of commitments. It's the conversation itself.
If this series of six worksheets has done its job, you should feel both clearer and more uncomfortable than when you started.