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Read both statements in each entry in the following list and select either ″a″ or ″b″ to indicate whichever best describes you - or is the least incorrect about you. You must answer every question to arrive at a proper score.

Question 1 You are the person others go to for help in solving people problems. You are very task oriented and tend to be aggressive in accomplishing tasks.

Question 2 You are better able than most people to coach others to develop their self-esteem. You strive to reach a position of authority and control that ensures high earnings.

Question 3 You use a coaching-style of leadership to affect the outcome of events. You quickly eliminate all obstacles that stand in the way of your goals.

Question 4 There are few people who are as good as you are at helping others to grow their self-esteem. You have no qualms about taking what you want in this world.

Question 5 You have the kind of self-esteem that helps others to grow theirs. You enjoy having people act on your commands and are not opposed to making threats if you must.

Question 6 You use your people skills to influence the outcome of events. You make all the important decisions and you want others to carry them out.

Question 7 You are strongly relationship-oriented which attracts people to you. In your experience, confrontations are usually effective in resolving problem situations.

Question 8 You would enjoy consulting and coaching on the complex issues and problems that face managers of companies. You would enjoy planning, directing and controlling the staff of a department to ensure the highest profit margins.

Question 9 You want to guide and coach business groups and companies to improve effectiveness. You want to make decisions about other people’s lives and money.

Question 10 You could use your people skills effectively in dealing with level upon level of bureaucratic red tape and pressure to improve performance. You could work where money and profits are more important than other people’s emotional well-being.

Question 11 You typically enjoy helping people tirelessly to reach a high level of autonomy, self-direction and self-motivation. You must fire unproductive employees regularly and expediently to achieve set targets.

Question 12 You feel responsible for guiding and coaching others to do their work well, because if they don't your leadership skills will have been inadequate. You have a workaholic temperament that thrives on pressure to succeed.

Question 13 You are a real self-starter and full of enthusiasm about everything you do. Whatever you do, you have to do it better than anyone else.

Question 14 You always strive for leadership excellence, for gaining that extra edge, through strong team spirit and autonomous, productive teamwork. You have a driving, aggressive personality and fight hard and tough to gain anything worth having.

Question 15 You have always enjoyed competitive activities, including sports, and have won several awards for outstanding performance. Winning and succeeding are more important to you than playing just for enjoyment.

Question 16 You will continue to work on solving a problem even when you seem to be getting nowhere. You quickly become bored with most things you undertake.

Question 17 You are naturally carried along by your inborn strengths to reach a progressively higher level of coaching-style leadership. Self-demanding and a perfectionist, you are always pressing yourself to perform to the limit.

Question 18 You maintain a sense of purpose and direction that others greatly appreciate. Being successful at work is the most important thing to you.

Question 19 You would enjoy a job requiring participative-style leadership for effective decision-making. You are loyal to the concepts of profit, growth and expansion.

Question 20 You prefer independence and freedom at work to a high salary or job security. You are comfortable in a position of control, authority and strong influence.

Question 21 You believe that informed risk-taking is a sign of good leadership. There are few people in whose judgment you would have as much confidence as in your own.

Question 22 You are seen as courageous, energetic and optimistic. Being ambitious, you are quick to take advantage of new opportunities.

Question 23 You are good at giving positive feedback and you give credit readily when it’s due. You like people, but you can't rely on their ability to do things the right way.

Question 24 When someone disagrees with you, you tend to resolve things diplomatically by employing active listening rather than by arguing with the other person. You tend to favor direct confrontation: ‘tell it like it is”.

Question 25 Although honest, you are capable of responding in kind to the devious rules by which some other people play. You are a person focused on achievement and you follows your own rules to get things accomplished on schedule.

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