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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I got visionary and pace-setting.
I mostly agree I think. Similar to personality tests, I think we all probably have characteristics of each thing in us.
I think it's an interesting tool for reflection. I liked the "use/don't use" parts - it's good to think about in terms of which aspect of leadership we might be drawing from.
@Hope
I scored the same in both. 35 out of 35.
@4Jasmine
Wow! Those are pretty high scores! Which areas are you talking about?
@JustSophia
Due to some confusion on my part, I ended up taking the test twice. Each time on separate days. My first time I needed to a bit more democratic and scored a 33. The second day I was feeling more positively focused and improved that score. I have strengths, but really could learn to be a little more democratic in future leadership.😊 Scores aren't really where the rubber meets the road. We shall see how and where I need to grow. Patience is certainly on my list!👍
@4Jasmine
It's fascinating to see how scores can shift from day to day depending on our moods or whatever else. They can still be interesting indicators of our tendencies though, and good tools for reflection. I agree with you that our experience and behavior is the real test, though!
@Hope
I agree with this quiz.
I am an affiliative leadership style. I make sure that my team is approaching everything in a healthy way
@Hope
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
-> I have got the Democratic Score Highest. I do believe in equal participation and mutual agreement.
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
-> Yes. It is giving an accurate result in my opinion.
@Hope
I'm a affirmative leader
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
I scored highest in Affiliate and democratic with 31 on both
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
Well i think this quiz can be subject to alot of biases and it also (without doing any research into this) looks like it isnt scientifically approved in any way which may cause a lot of problems.
@Hope @yourbuddy30
Which leadership style did you score the highest for? I scored highest for Democratic and Affiliative leadership styles.
Do you agree with this quiz? I dont know if I am in agreement or disagreement with this quiz.
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@Hope
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
democratic leader
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
😁 i guess so
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
I scored highest for affiliative, followed by pacesetting and coaching.
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
To be honest, I'm not sure because I seldom am an absolute leader in my project.