It is 3pm and I sitting at a new coffee shop. I feel exhausted but happy. After one week 241 leaders have completed the leadership questionnaire, which makes the response rate 46%. I am very pleased with these results. On Monday, I am going to resend the survey to the remaining leaders and hope that most of them complete it before next Friday. I have generated a follow-up plan to be implemented in the organizations that are not at an 80% response rate by the end of next week.
Throughout the week I had to do some troubleshooting with company delegates and leaders who had difficulty accessing the link. Although access to the survey link was tested at each company before launching the survey, some leaders still had challenges. Most often the issue was that the leader had inadvertently deleted the email or it had been diverted automatically to their Junk File folder. A few leaders had challenges with the consent section so I had to work with them directly to resolve these issues. Overall, I think there were about 15 leaders who required some form of support and it took about 2 hours in total.
This week I also had a very productive conversation with a Compensation Manager. We were discussing the merits of adding ROE as a financial measure of leader effectiveness. He also provided some useful papers to review. There is a lot more to do here.
Things have been extremely busy on the work front and I am also providing some support to others on personal issues so I am pretty taxed. I have decided to limit my research to two hours today. I am signing off shortly and heading home for a well-deserved nap!