Most leaders have one dimension that's silently undermining everything else.
This finds yours in six minutes.
You already lead well in most areas. But there's one dimension where you're slipping, and it's affecting more than you think. It shows you exactly where to focus first.
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.
- 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
Most leaders have one dimension that's silently undermining everything else.
This finds yours in six minutes.
You already lead well in most areas. But there's one dimension where you're slipping, and it's affecting more than you think. It shows you exactly where to focus first.
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.
- 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.
Questions before you begin.
A few things worth knowing about how the assessment works and what you get.
About six minutes. There are 28 questions, grouped four at a time across the seven dimensions, so it moves quickly and feels like a structured diagnostic rather than a long survey.
A personalized Place Setting Profile: a scorecard across all seven dimensions, your single Focus Element (the dimension scoring lowest), and three specific practices you can start running this week. It arrives on screen and in your inbox.
Yes. Your full profile is delivered after you enter your first name and email. You also join The Leadership Table, one leadership idea and one play every Monday morning, free. You can unsubscribe anytime, and your information is never shared or sold.
No. Every question is answered on a scale from Never to Consistently, and the goal is an honest read, not a high score. The profile is only useful if you answer as you actually lead, not as you would like to.
Anyone responsible for leading people, whether you run a team of three or an organization of thousands. If you want a clear, specific sense of where your leadership is strong and where it is quietly slipping, this gives you one.
One Focus Element. Three practices. This week.
Take six minutes, answer honestly, and walk away knowing the one dimension worth your attention now.
You already lead. This shows you where to lead better.