Course 2, Discussion 1: Understanding your Leadership Style
Hello everyone,
If you are reading this, it means you have come a long way in your leadership training. Kudos to you for all the effort and resilience you have shown! It is amazing how you all are open to learning and adapting to new environments: the environment of leadership!
Before we zoom in and talk more about learning and adapting, lets zoom back out first and talk about how you feel about leadership. Regardless of how you see yourself, there is a leader within you. The one who visualizes how things could have run in a better way if you were in the leading spot. Leading spot here means:
A desire for change
Believing you got the abilities to make it happen
Visualizing success while keeping in mind the bigger picture.
Lets take a look at the leadership styles as proposed by Daniel Goleman
Picture taken from this source.
Your original style could be any of them. So for the purpose of this course, we are going to use a leadership style test to help you identify your core competencies. In brief, we are using the test here to help you identify your leadership approach. So, when you know how you approach an event, you could think and put efforts to bring a change in it. It will allow you to polish your strengths and focus to improve in other different areas as well.
Let's get started!
- Please take the leadership style test linked HERE.
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
❗After fulfilling the requirements of this post, please check out the next post here! tinyurl.com/Course2Discussion2
🔉This post is brought to you by the Leadership Development Program, find information on it here tinyurl.com/AcademyLDP
@Hope
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
i scored highest on democratic i scored highest on democratic (29) followed by visionary and coaching both at (27)
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
i do yes it asked me about very specific details and i do agree that i value being democratic and having a more inclusive view of things.
@Hope I am a visionary! And i do believe this quiz can be a helpful tool!
@Hope
Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
My highest was pacesetting.
Do you agree with this quiz?
For the most part, yes, I do believe this is pretty accurate.
@Hope
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
- Total Pacesetting Score is: 30 out of 35
- Total Affiliative Score is: 29 out of 35
- Total Coaching Score is: 27 out of 35
- Total Democratic Score is: 26 out of 35
- Total Visionary Score is: 19 out of 35
- Total Commanding Score is: 16 out of 35
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
I thought it was interesting how this quiz makes it seem like I have a variety of leadership styles rather than a single leadership style.
However, I would agree that this makes sense. As a leader I would try to balance my skills/strengths/character traits in order to be the best possible leader and get the work needed done.
@Hope✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
I scored highest for the visionary leader!
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
I think agree with the quiz results :)
@Hope Democratic and i do agree with this quiz
I am an affiliative leader. When I work, I always try to cultivate relationships with employes. I also try to solve conflicts at work. I agree thesse results.
@patientShell1003 I am also an affiliative leader and it's good to see so many affiliative leaders on 7cups. I wish you luck on your journey!
@Hope
Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
Total Democratic Score is: 25 out of 35
| Generates ideas and builds commitment among employees through participation and consensus. | |
| Use | To get valuable input, to get alignment between team members or buy-in. |
| Don't use | When there is no time to hold meetings, with employees that need close supervision. |
Personally, I have been feeling like I don't know how to deal with leading a cross-functional team. Until I started babysitting.
@Hope
Ola Ola
I scored highest in coaching. But doing business myself I think its important to look all of these aspects together and make an assessment if the quiz makes sense.
Looking them all together and taking into account all of different situations that may arise etc, I think its pretty accurate. A good conclusive view of basic traits.
| Total Visionary Score is: 31 out of 35 |
|---|
| Total Coaching Score is: 33 out of 35 |
|---|
| Total Democratic Score is: 29 out of 35 |
|---|
| Total Affiliative Score is: 31 out of 35 |
|---|
| Total Pacesetting Score is: 32 out of 35 |
|---|
| Total Commanding Score is: 22 out of 35 |
|---|
@Hope I scored higher in democratic and I do believe this aligns with me