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Department Chair Leadership Assessment

As a department chair, you navigate one of higher education's most challenging and impactful leadership roles. The Department Chair Leadership Assessment draws from years of coaching hundreds of department chairs across diverse institutional contexts—from small liberal arts colleges to large research universities—and reflects the real questions and struggles chairs face in today's challenging higher education landscape. This assessment is your opportunity to gain personalized insights while contributing to research that will help chairs like you thrive amid today's unprecedented challenges.

Instructions: For each question, select the response that most accurately reflects your current experience, approach, or perspective as a department chair. Answer honestly based on your present situation, not how you wish things were or how you think they should be.

After completing the assessment, you'll receive:

* A customized leadership profile identifying your strengths and growth areas

* Targeted strategies aligned with your experience level and leadership style

* Practical approaches for addressing your most pressing challenges

* Early access to concepts from my forthcoming book, The Department Chair Playbook

Your participation matters: Your responses will help shape this research on effective department leadership, ensuring the book addresses the real challenges chairs face today. As a former department chair who navigated these waters for nearly a decade and now as a coach that has served hundreds of department chairs, I'm committed to creating a practical resource that speaks to your lived experience.

This brief 20-question assessment takes just 5-7 minutes to complete. Your insights will help build a more supportive system for departmental leaders while giving you immediate tools to enhance your own leadership effectiveness.