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
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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?
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@Hope I got the visionary leader.
Your leadership style is very motivating. In contrast to the commanding and pacesetting leaders, you have a very clear overall vision of each situation, meaning that you excel at defining the purpose of every project you take on. You have a strong idea and you trust that the key members of your team will make it work with concrete solutions. Your greatest strength is above all your ability to motivate your team to make sense of changes in the company. In other words, with your charisma and empathy and a clear and inspiring vision, you are able to lead the way for others.
@Hope
@FeureVox
I also received this result 👍
✒️ What is your leadership style?
I got affiliative leader.
@charmingFlower8111
So did I!
@Hope
✒️ What is your leadership style?
I'm actually a mix between democratic and visionary. I used democracy first and then make a case for visionary outcomes.
@CurrySoup12
that’s really cool! I think it’s nice to be flexible like that:)
I am an affiliative leader! :)
@KarmaTheRascal woohoo, what does it mean? :P have a great day!
@KarmaTheRascal
Fantastic! Me too! We are the people's people!
@Hope I am a visionary leader! Since I am manager in my work, I loved to find out that what I do every day is not contraproductive and it is actually very good! :)
@Hope
According to the quiz I am a Democratic Leader.
@ItsMrEnigma
Same!
@ItsMrEnigma
Team Democrat! :)
My leadership style is a visionary style:) my leadership style is very motivating and it says I basically pave the way for others to succeed so😊
I am a visionary leader which means I’m really motivating and it said pave the way for others i guess:)
@Rubylistens22
That's a great leadership style😃. A leadership that paves way for others. Interesting😃
@Rubylistens22
sameeeeee
@Hope
✒️ What is your leadership style?
🌹 I am an Affiliative leader. I have leadership style that encourages relationships between people, prompting them to work together.
✒️ Respond to one of your peers who share your leadership style!
🌹 I agree with vivelespatates and CharmingFlower8111 that there were other answers which I felt would be applicable depending on situation.
@RainbowRosie
I was also given Affiliative leader, too. And I agree, as well, that a couple of them felt circumstantial but picking out your general approaches didn’t require much overthought luckily.