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Free Leadership Values ExerciseDiscover What Drives You as a Leader
What kind of leader are you - really? This free leadership values exercise, created by Bristol-based business coach and leadership development specialist Jo Richings, helps managers, executives and business owners identify the core values that shape their leadership style. |
Discover What Drives You as a Leader
What kind of leader are you - really? This free leadership values exercise, created by Bristol-based business coach and leadership development specialist Jo Richings, helps managers, executives and business owners identify the core values that shape their leadership style.
Using a proven paired comparison method, you'll work through 15 key leadership values - from Accountability and Courage to Empathy and Adaptability - choosing which matters most to you in each pairing. In just a few minutes, you'll have a clear, personalised ranking of your top 5 leadership values and your bottom 5, with reflective prompts to help you turn insight into action.
Why leadership values matter Your values aren't just words on a wall - they're the invisible force behind every decision you make, every relationship you build, and every team culture you create. When leaders are clear on their values, they lead with greater consistency, confidence and authenticity. When they're not, mixed messages, misalignment and disengagement often follow.
This exercise is used by Jo Richings in her leadership coaching and management training programmes Globally. It's a brilliant starting point for 1:1 coaching, team workshops, DISC profiling sessions, and leadership development programmes.
Who is this for?
Ready to find out what drives you? Start the exercise above — it takes around 10–15 minutes and you can print your results at the end.
What kind of leader are you - really? This free leadership values exercise, created by Bristol-based business coach and leadership development specialist Jo Richings, helps managers, executives and business owners identify the core values that shape their leadership style.
Using a proven paired comparison method, you'll work through 15 key leadership values - from Accountability and Courage to Empathy and Adaptability - choosing which matters most to you in each pairing. In just a few minutes, you'll have a clear, personalised ranking of your top 5 leadership values and your bottom 5, with reflective prompts to help you turn insight into action.
Why leadership values matter Your values aren't just words on a wall - they're the invisible force behind every decision you make, every relationship you build, and every team culture you create. When leaders are clear on their values, they lead with greater consistency, confidence and authenticity. When they're not, mixed messages, misalignment and disengagement often follow.
This exercise is used by Jo Richings in her leadership coaching and management training programmes Globally. It's a brilliant starting point for 1:1 coaching, team workshops, DISC profiling sessions, and leadership development programmes.
Who is this for?
- Managers stepping into leadership for the first time
- Senior leaders wanting greater self-awareness
- Business owners building high-performance teams
- NGO and Non Profit leaders looking to lead with greater purpose and intention
Ready to find out what drives you? Start the exercise above — it takes around 10–15 minutes and you can print your results at the end.
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Leadership Development Tool
Jo Richings
Discover Your
Leadership Values
A structured exercise to uncover what truly drives you as a leader — using a proven paired comparison method.
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You'll be shown two leadership values at a time
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Pick the one that feels more important to you as a leader
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See your top 5 values and your bottom 5 ranked at the end
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Which matters more to you as a leader?
Choose instinctively — go with your gut
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Value A
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Value B
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Jo Richings — Leadership Development
Your Leadership Values
Ranked by your instinctive choices
Your Top 5 Values
These are the values that showed up most consistently across every comparison you made. They represent what you instinctively reach for when leading — the non-negotiables that shape how you make decisions, build relationships, and show up for your team. Take a moment to sit with them. Do they feel true? Are they reflected in how others would describe your leadership right now, or do they point to something you're still growing into?
▾ See all values scored
Your Bottom 5 Values
These values scored lowest — not because they don't matter, but because in the moment of choice, something else consistently won out. That's worth exploring. Are these values you've deprioritised intentionally, or ones you've simply never paused to develop? Sometimes our bottom values reveal the blind spots that others notice before we do — and the most powerful leadership growth often begins right here.
This exercise was created by Jo Richings — Business Coach & Leadership Development Specialist