About MASTER 120™

Go beyond leadership style—understand how you lead and what to develop next.

MASTER 120™ belongs to the wider MASTER Leadership Assessment Framework™. It is designed to move beyond a broad leadership-identity profile and examine how leadership may be expressed through behaviour, capability, relationships, decisions and development.

What It Explores

A human-centred map of your leadership

  • Leadership identity
  • Seven MASTER leadership dimensions
  • Dominant and supporting orientations
  • Selected communication tendencies
  • Selected Emotional Intelligence tendencies
  • Selected resilience tendencies
  • Strengths
  • Potential risks and overextensions
  • Initial development priorities

The MASTER Perspective™

The MASTER Perspective™ treats leadership as a dynamic set of tendencies whose meaning depends on:

Context
Balance
Complementary Capabilities
Leadership Role
Culture
Pressure
Situational Demands
Intentional Use

A score is evidence about a response tendency. It is not a complete definition of the person.

Interpretation should therefore move through four questions:

  1. 1What tendency is visible?
  2. 2What might that tendency mean?
  3. 3Under what conditions may it be helpful or limiting?
  4. 4What development may increase range and intentionality?

This interpretation logic is part of the current MASTER 120 manual.

One Framework, Three Levels of Depth

Your profile is a hypothesis to test

Use the report to:

  • identify tendencies that feel recognisable
  • explore results that create curiosity
  • test interpretations against real situations
  • seek feedback from people who experience your leadership
  • translate insight into observable practice
  • review whether change is visible over time

Do not use the report to:

  • reduce yourself to one leadership type
  • compare your worth with other leaders
  • assume that every high score is automatically beneficial
  • treat a less-expressed dimension as a permanent deficit
  • replace judgement, feedback or organisational evidence