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'm an affiliative leader, meaning that I work to cultivate relationships with employees and reward personal characteristics
I agree with this for sure, this is type of leadership style I try to use.
Hi everyone
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
My highest leadership style is visionary. I thought it was coaching
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
Yes, if I didn't trust, why was I here?
I am a democratic leader. The democratic leader values input from team members and encourages open communication and shared decision-making. They build trust, boost morale, and strengthen commitment because people feel heard and respected. It works best for people when the leader needs buy-in from the team or when team members have valuable expertise to contribute.
I absolutely agree with this!
@Hope
Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
I scored the highest in Democratic.
Do you agree with this quiz?
I can see where the quiz is coming from, as I do like getting input from all involved when making a decision.
@Hope
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
I scored highest for being a commanding leader.
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
Absolutely!
@Hope
I am democratic leader! It was a very helpful quiz!
@Hope
Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
Coaching style
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
yes
@Hope 1. Democratic and Affiliative
2. Yes
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
I enjoyed completing this quiz, I am a affiliative leader. This is one who stronly emphases the importance of teamwork and creating positive relationships.
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
I agree with this quiz and think it is very important to recognise that people perform at their best when they are supported and involved in a team!
Feeling supported and involved are such good motivators to perform our best work! We know we can seek advice if we get stuck AND that it's safe and acceptable if something goes a bit wrong therefore encouraging us to "reach for the stars" and get a bit more creative.
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
I got the highest score for Democratic.
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
I would say that I am a different type of leader in different situations so just focusing on the highest score is wrong I think. My highest scores were democratic, visonary and affiliative.
It makes so much sense that our leadership style would change depending on the situation! It's a great idea to think about all the leadership styles rather than just the one you scored highest for. What great insight!
