Discover your current leadership operating gear and identify if you can elevate to a higher gear. Get personalized insights to help you lead with greater capacity, traction, agility, and vitality
Every leader has a default operating gear. It shapes how they handle pressure, make decisions, relate to others, and create value.
The 6th Gear Leadership Assessment helps you identify the primary “gear” you currently operate from as a leader: whether you tend to lead from self-protection, achievement, or purpose-centered value creation.
This matters because each gear shapes how you think, respond under pressure, relate to others, navigate change, and create value. The gear that helped you succeed in the past may not be the gear that helps you elevate your impact going forward.
In just a few minutes, the assessment will give you personalized insight into your current leadership pattern and help you see the next step in your development.
Take the assessment to discover your leadership gear and your next opportunity for elevation.
After completing the 6th Gear Leadership Assessment, you will receive a personalized report designed to help you better understand how you currently operate as a leader and what may be possible next.
Your report includes:
Your Primary Leadership Gear
Discover whether you are most consistently operating from 4th Gear, 5th Gear, or 6th Gear—and what that means for how you lead.
Your Core Leadership Pattern
Gain insight into the mindset, motivations, and tendencies that shape how you respond to pressure, pursue goals, relate to others, and create value.
Your Strengths and Watch-Outs
See the leadership qualities that are helping you succeed, along with the patterns that may be limiting your capacity, traction, agility, or vitality.
Your Next Development Focus
Identify the most important shift you can make to elevate your leadership and operate from a higher gear more consistently.
The reality is that at different times, leaders shift into different gears.
But, you have a gear that is your default gear, the gear you spend the majority of your time in.
It is this default gear that sets the ceiling for your leadership.
If you want to raise your ceiling, you need to shift into a higher operating gear.
Vertical development is not about simply doing more. It is about upgrading the internal operating system that drives how you think, feel, respond, relate, and lead.
1. Understand the Gears
Build a foundational understanding of vertical development and the difference between 4th Gear, 5th Gear, and 6th Gear leadership.
2. Awaken to Your Current Gear
Use the assessment to identify your primary leadership gear and recognize the patterns that are shaping your effectiveness, especially under pressure.
3. Shift to a Higher Gear
Engage in intentional developmental practices that help you expand your capacity, increase your agility, and lead from a more elevated internal place.
For guidance on each step, check out the Vertical Development Roadmap.
When groups take the Vertical Development Assessment, you get a clear snapshot of your collective center of gravity as a leadership system. This helps you:
Option: There is an option to have your leaders complete this assessment to produce a collective report — useful for organizations that want to do deep vertical development work at scale.
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