SAFe Assessment Collection
Lean-Agile Leadership Assessment
by SAFe
The SAFe Lean-Agile Leadership (LAL) Assessment enables organizations to evaluate how effectively leaders embrace and promote Lean-Agile principles to drive sustained organizational change and operational excellence. With a focus on empowering individuals and teams, this assessment examines the alignment of leadership behaviors with key principles, values, and change-management practices essential for building a resilient, high-performing enterprise.
Andrew Sales
Chief Methodologist and SAFe Fellow,
Scaled Agility, Inc.
Dean Leffingwell
Co-founder and Chief Methodologist
Scaled Agility, Inc.
How Does It Work?
Participants use structured statements to evaluate leadership alignment with Lean-Agile values. Responses provide insight into how well leaders are modeling the principles, setting the tone for transformation, and actively engaging in change management practices.
Core Benefits of the SAFe LAL Assessment
Why Choose the SAFe LAL Assessment?
Mindset and Principles
Assess leadership's openness to new ideas, transparency, and adaptability, essential for fostering a culture of continuous growth and customer-centric innovation.
Cultivate Resilient, Adaptive Leadership
By focusing on Lean-Agile principles, the LAL Assessment helps leaders develop the behaviors and mindset essential for leading in complex, dynamic environments.
Leading by Example
Understand the degree to which leaders demonstrate authenticity, emotional competence, and insatiable learning—modeling the values they wish to instill.
Model Effective Change Management
Evaluate how well leaders support change by building coalitions, setting clear visions, and celebrating wins to drive sustainable transformation.
Leading the Change
Evaluate how leaders communicate, support, and reinforce change, building a strong coalition for transformational initiatives.
Build Trust and Transparency
The assessment emphasizes transparency, trust, and open communication, encouraging leaders to foster psychological safety and collaboration across teams.
Sample Questions
Mindset and Principles
Leaders consider new ideas and are open to feedback from all team members.
Mindset and Principles
Leaders promote incremental development practices that respond to changing requirements.
Mindset and Principles
Leaders define and communicate a clear strategy that aligns the entire organization.
Leading by Example
Our leaders' actions are consistent with their words, creating a foundation of trust.
Leading by Example
Leaders skillfully manage emotional situations and demonstrate empathy.
Leading by Example
Leaders invest in their professional growth, modeling a continuous learning mindset.
Leading the Change
Leaders clearly communicate 'the why' behind each change initiative.
Leading the Change
Leaders organize cross-functional teams with diverse perspectives to drive change.
Leading the Change
Leaders reinforce and measure the results of change until it is embedded as the new normal.