Bernard Hayes
Leadership readiness assessment with target progression toward Director.
Why This Rating
This section gives the candidate the high-level explanation behind the readiness score and timing.
It synthesizes self-input, uploaded materials, and colleague feedback into a concise narrative.
Promotion Readiness Context
This section explains what evidence supports the timing judgment and what still needs to become more consistent.
It helps the candidate understand why the readiness call is what it is, not just what the answer is.
Key Strengths
The strongest reports call out not just what someone does well, but what they should continue to amplify as they move toward the next level.
- Highly reliable and composed under pressure
- Trusted to create structure in ambiguous situations
- Strong operator who improves rhythm, follow-through, and accountability
Growth Opportunities
The strongest development sections name the one biggest shift first, then make the priorities underneath easier to act on.
- Lead more fully through others during high-stakes execution
- Communicate recommendations more concisely for senior audiences
- Operate with broader enterprise framing across tradeoffs and priorities
Leadership Capabilities
Strategy
How this leader frames the business, connects moving parts, and sets direction.
Execution
How this leader makes decisions and turns priorities into consistent results.
Leadership
How this leader creates traction through communication, people leadership, and accountability.
How to Read the Leadership Capability Scores
Strategy
How this leader frames the business, connects moving parts, and sets direction.
Strategic Thinking
This section explains what the capability measures and how it supports next-level readiness.
It also helps candidates understand how their current behaviors are being interpreted in the context of broader leadership scope.
This area includes tailored coaching about how the candidate can strengthen this capability over time.
Systems Thinking
This section explains what the capability measures and how it supports next-level readiness.
It also helps candidates understand how their current behaviors are being interpreted in the context of broader leadership scope.
This area includes tailored coaching about how the candidate can strengthen this capability over time.
Execution
How this leader makes decisions and turns priorities into consistent results.
Decision Making
This section explains what the capability measures and how it supports next-level readiness.
It also helps candidates understand how their current behaviors are being interpreted in the context of broader leadership scope.
This area includes tailored coaching about how the candidate can strengthen this capability over time.
Execution
This section explains what the capability measures and how it supports next-level readiness.
It also helps candidates understand how their current behaviors are being interpreted in the context of broader leadership scope.
This area includes tailored coaching about how the candidate can strengthen this capability over time.
Leadership
How this leader creates traction through communication, people leadership, and accountability.
Influence
This section explains what the capability measures and how it supports next-level readiness.
It also helps candidates understand how their current behaviors are being interpreted in the context of broader leadership scope.
This area includes tailored coaching about how the candidate can strengthen this capability over time.
Communication
This section explains what the capability measures and how it supports next-level readiness.
It also helps candidates understand how their current behaviors are being interpreted in the context of broader leadership scope.
This area includes tailored coaching about how the candidate can strengthen this capability over time.
People Leadership
This section explains what the capability measures and how it supports next-level readiness.
It also helps candidates understand how their current behaviors are being interpreted in the context of broader leadership scope.
This area includes tailored coaching about how the candidate can strengthen this capability over time.
Ownership
This section explains what the capability measures and how it supports next-level readiness.
It also helps candidates understand how their current behaviors are being interpreted in the context of broader leadership scope.
This area includes tailored coaching about how the candidate can strengthen this capability over time.
Tools to Accelerate Your Move to Director
Resources are tailored to the leadership shifts identified in the report and split into practice, learning, application, and discussion.
Practice
- Delegate more tactical problem solving through managers
- Lead executive updates with concise recommendation-first framing
- Practice broader tradeoff thinking in cross-functional decisions
- Ask for feedback after key alignment moments
Learn
Articles and Talks
- TED Talk: Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe
- YouTube Talk: Radical Candor
Books
- Multipliers
- The First 90 Days
- Elevate
Apply
Day 1-30
- Clarify ownership and delegation expectations
- Practice shorter, recommendation-led updates
Day 31-60
- Extend delegation into more visible cross-functional work
- Practice shorter, recommendation-led updates with senior stakeholders
Day 61-90
- Make next-level leadership shifts more visible through your team
- Use feedback and outcomes to refine the strongest ongoing development priorities
Expected Signals of Progress
The best reports help candidates understand how growth should become visible around them, not just what they personally intend to do.
- Leader gives more room without staying close to the details
- Peers seek earlier alignment and clearer tradeoff thinking
- Team ownership rises without waiting for intervention
Discuss
This section helps candidates turn the report into real conversations with their leader, team, and partners. The live report includes tailored prompts, support asks, and a short narrative the candidate can actually use.
- 30-Second Narrative
- Your Leader
- Partners and Peers
- Your Direct Team