Find the one leadership dimension quietly costing you.
The Place Setting Assessment scores you across seven dimensions of leadership and shows you the single one to work on first.
In about six minutes, you will answer 28 questions across seven leadership dimensions. You will get a personalized profile, a seven-dimension scorecard, and your Focus Element: the weakest dimension, with three specific practices to run this week. Built by Robert Adams, a Marshall Goldsmith certified behavioral leadership coach.
- Seven dimensions scored individually, so you see exactly where you stand
- One Focus Element identified, the dimension worth your attention now
- Three concrete practices you can put to work this week, not someday
Find the one leadership dimension quietly costing you.
The Place Setting Assessment scores you across seven dimensions of leadership and shows you the single one to work on first.
In about six minutes, you will answer 28 questions across seven leadership dimensions. You will get a personalized profile, a seven-dimension scorecard, and your Focus Element: the weakest dimension, with three specific practices to run this week. Built by Robert Adams, a Marshall Goldsmith certified behavioral leadership coach.
- Seven dimensions scored individually, so you see exactly where you stand
- One Focus Element identified, the dimension worth your attention now
- Three concrete practices you can put to work this week, not someday
The seven dimensions of a leader who holds the table.
The Place Setting Framework looks at leadership the way a table is set. Every piece has a job, and the whole only works when each one is in place.
The Plate · Foundation & Character
Everything rests on this. Whether you lead with the same values under pressure that you hold when things are easy, and whether your people feel you care about them as people, not just performers.
The Knife · Judgment & Balance
Knowing when a moment needs support and when it needs a standard enforced, and choosing correctly. Giving hard feedback early, before a situation becomes a crisis.
The Fork · Absorption & Growth
How well you take in feedback, especially from the people you lead. Whether you sit with what challenges your self-image instead of explaining it away, and keep changing because of it.
The Spoon · Nourishment & Development
How deliberately you grow your people. Knowing their goals, investing real time in them when doing the task yourself would be faster, and watching them advance.
The Glass · Clarity & Transparency
Whether your people know where you are going and why. Honesty about uncertainty, reasoning shared alongside decisions, expectations stated plainly rather than assumed.
The Napkin · Dignity & Presence
Protecting the dignity of your people in the moments no one is watching. Noticing the quiet voice, the hard day, the person who needs to be seen.
The Table · Space & Legacy
The environment you are building, not just the results you are chasing this quarter. Whether you are creating something, a culture and a standard, that outlasts your title.
