Lesson 2 – Topic 2: Character Questionnaire
9 Strategies for creating kinder workplaces.
1 – Character questionnaire
2 – Change yourself, and the world changes around you
3 – Dream teams
4 – Find out why staff is leaving
5 – Staff promotion survey
6 – Communication box
7 – Celebrations
8 – Create ambience
9 – Humour
The character questionnaire is the first of the 9 strategies you can start implementing right now to create safer and kinder workplaces. Even if you only implement 1 or several of these points I firmly believe this will change the workplace for the better.
Strategy 1 – Character Questionnaire
Let’s get an indication of your character and how you can change to create a kinder workplace
Here are 6 simple questions. Answer these honestly and rate each answer anywhere on the scale from 1 to 10. This will highlight areas where improvements can be made. At the end of the questionnaire, add all the scores up.
| Questions | 0 – None |
10 – Highest |
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| 1 | Am I interested in the personal wellbeing of my employees? | ||
| 2 | Do I show compassion and empathy towards my employees? | ||
| 3 | Do I go out of my way to help employees? | ||
| 4 | What level of integrity and honesty am I at? | ||
| 5 | Do I tolerate bullying at my workplace? | (If often: score 0) | (If never: score 10) |
| 6 | Do I bully other people? | (If often: score 0) | (If never: score 10) |
Your Total Score:
If you honestly score 60 you are most likely an excellent leader. Congratulations!!!!! If you score 0 you might be very honest and need a good counsellor to heal.
If you are like most somewhere in the middle the good news is: Change is possible.
All these qualities are trainable, the same way you train your arm muscles, you can train your kindness muscles.
It is best to repeat the questionnaire in 3 months and then 2x yearly. If you want to go the extra mile give this questionnaire to any of your staff members, anonymous of course, and then compare with your own evaluation. But for the purpose of this course it is not necessary.
I really want to stress here anonymous so that no one can get identified.