What is innovative leadership?
Innovative leadership creates conditions in which people can generate, champion, test, and implement useful new ideas—not novelty for its own sake.
Assess how well you notice opportunities, create room for ideas, test assumptions, and help useful innovations survive implementation.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does innovative leadership mean?
Innovative leadership creates conditions in which people can generate, champion, test, and implement useful new ideas—not novelty for its own sake.
Why it matters at work
Ideas become valuable only when they address a real need and can be tested, learned from, and adopted. Leaders shape whether speaking up and small experiments are safe enough to happen.
What this assessment measures
Opportunity discovery
Looking for unmet needs, friction, and alternative explanations before selecting an idea.
Idea climate
Inviting challenge and protecting early ideas from status, ridicule, and premature certainty.
Testing & adoption
Running bounded experiments and turning evidence into implementation decisions.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your innovative leadership foundation
Your answers point to a few situations where one deliberate practice could make this capability more dependable.
A developing innovative leadership pattern
You show this capability in some conditions. Start with the dimension that becomes least reliable under pressure.
A strong innovative leadership pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it with harder situations and feedback from people affected.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
Susanne G. Scott and Reginald A. Bruce (1994), “Determinants of Innovative Behavior: A Path Model of Individual Innovation in the Workplace”, Academy of Management Journal.