[Archived] Course 4. Foundational Leadership Principles: (Discussion #1) Understanding your Leadership Style
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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.
To lead others effectively, you need a good blend of 4 broad competencies area
If you have a surplus amount of knowledge on how to lead but not a good emotional quotient (EQ), you will find it hard to tackle leadership challenges. Having a good EQ is as important as having the right skills, and if you have skills but not the right attitude and values, you won't be able to achieve your full potential as a leader. Your attitude and values impact how others view you as a leader. We need an alignment in all 4 areas.
You have your very own leadership style based on your competency level. So, the next step is to label your original leadership style. Because you can switch to any leadership style with deliberate effort, thought, and adaptation.
Daniel Goleman categorizes leadership approaches in 6 broad styles. Authoritative, Coaching, Affiliative, and Democratic help one to promote harmony and positive outcomes while Coercive and Pacesetting styles of leadership need to be used in specific situations as they could cause tension.
Your original style could be one 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.
Lets get started!
- Please take the leadership style test here: https://www.energir.com/blogue/en/at-work/quiz-what-kind-of-leader-are-you/
Next step, below in the comments of this discussion, share
1. What is your leadership style?
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
4. Please reply to 3 of your peers in this thread!
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1. What is your leadership style?
Ans: I’m a visionary leader.
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
Ans: I learnt that I have the skills required for motivating my team members, which results in overall better performance.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
Ans: I’d like to improve on my set of knowledge. I’ll need a balance of all mentioned areas to succeed as a good leader.
@cuteeeezombieeee
I'm glad to see that you recognize having those leadership skills and that you are motivated to further your self-development.
Hi @cuteeeezombieeee, it's interesting to see how our leadership styles vary and our strengths differ accordingly. It's always nice to learn more about others and ourselves.
@cuteeeezombieeee Great answer. I hope you will learn and then be a better leader !
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style? Democratic:)
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself? I like to create meeting, which is totally true
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon? My ability to say no
4. Please reply to 3 of your peers in this thread! Sure!
@thisisirene nice!
@thisisirene
I'm happy to see that you like unity but at the same time you have certain boundaries.
@thisisirene
It is indeed important to learn to say not! Best of luck!
What is your leadership style?
I am an affiliative leader. My style is driven by the need to allow members in the group to work together.
What is one thing you learned about yourself?
Something that I learned about myself in this test is the expansion of my ideologies, Witches helping people and solving situations together as a group. I was rather surprised to see that my leadership style is a reflection of my goals.
What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
Something that I noticed myself doing in a team, is that when my team does not meet certain guidelines, my first solution is to set specific pointers and tasks to each member in the group or I would put everything together and do the work myself as a fear of disappointing the members in my group. This is something that I would like to work on, and I wish to be able to convey the needs in a direct forward way and at the same time to ensure that their feelings are not hurt.
@giggleZebra2708
Being an affiliative leader sounds cool! It seems kinda different to my type and it's always awesome to learn more about others! 
@giggleZebra2708
Hey Zebra, so good to see you here! It seems that we have the same leadership style *high fives* for it! And I agree, that was something I learned about myself as well. I hope you are able to communicate your thoughts, views, and feelings and the other person takes it well. It seems to me, you're already a great leader! 
Thank you for sharing with us!
You can't give your life more time, so give the time you have, more life.
@giggleZebra2708
1. Democratic leader. 2. That my leadership style is based on collective intelligence. And that my greatest strength is my ability to motivate people whom I work with. 3. Sometimes I tend to overdo everything while ensuring that everyone works together as a team. However, I guess I need to learn where to draw a line and stop myself as due to overdoing it, I sometimes end up being hated by every team member.
@Heather225
What is your leadership style?
Affiliative leader
(You have a leadership style that encourages relationships between people, prompting them to work together. Your approach involves focusing on the importance of working together. You also understand the needs of your team and your partners very well, and you try to satisfy them. Your greatest strength lies in your ability to ease tensions or motivate all your team members during difficult periods. You also have a knack for getting people who are accustomed to working alone to work together instead.)
What is one thing you learned about yourself?
It was good to know my leadership style. As mostly I like people be peace with each other and work as team. One thing I learned about myself -Knack for getting people who are accustomed to working alone to work together instead.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I am good in developing, supporting and understanding the behaviour , thought and difference and good in making thing work .But some time I had observed once people can work in team together they don’t need me. So keeping my value as leader I should learn why it happen I have to find out.
@blindHeart12
Being an affiliative leader is a great way to leadership, i also am one. we are great with handling relationships and understanding
My leadership style is afilliative.
I learned that I like to help people work together and build cohesive environments. This definitely aligns with my personality.
I would like to be more aware of surroundings and the energy i bring into situations.
@Lww873 Good words -"more aware of surroundings and the energy i bring into situations."
Hello Everyone!
1. What is your leadership style?
I am a visionary leader. My leadership style is very motivating.
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
With my charisma and empathy and a clear and inspiring vision, I am able to lead the way for others.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
One thing that I would like to improve upon is to have self-care breaks whenever needed and pause my energetic nature of leadership.
Thank You!
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
@SuryanshSingh Self-care breaks whenever needed and taking pause sound good.
@SuryanshSingh I agree that self care breaks are important ! Keep up the good work.
What is your leadership style?
My leadership style is very motivating. I have a very clear overall vision of each situation, meaning that I excel at defining the purpose of every project I take on.
What is one thing you learned about yourself?
My ideas are strong and I trust that me and my team members will make it work with concrete solutions.
What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I need to further raise my charisma and empathy so that my high expectations can meet with high warmth as well.
@Fristo
It's great, that you have a very clear overall vision on every situation.
@Heather225
1. An Affiliative leader
2. I learned about myself that I am good in encouraging relationships between people and prompting them to work together.
3. I would like to improve one thing about myself that try to resolve conflicts.
@LovetoGod
Oh hey again, Love! It seems we have the same type of leadership style, how awesome is that? A great thing you learned about yourself, I was pretty aware of what I do, but it was great to know that it just my style to lead! I hope you can work on resolving conflicts nicely! Thank you for sharing! It's always good to see you here!
You can't give your life more time, so give the time you have, more life.
@lueurspace
Oh yeah we have same leadership style. And good to see you again too. Hope you are doing well. Best wishes for the program💖
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
Affiliative Leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I learned that i can motivate and encourage people to work together in groups. I can help them build understandings and the productive connection.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I tend to give up on my team when i see no positive results after trying everything. I get frustrated. As a result, we move back to square one, I would like to see me determined to help them, despite no results. I need to increase my patience.
@DigitalKnight
We both have same type of leadership style. Thanks for sharing. I agree with you❤
@DigitalKnight
yeah... i can understand how bad it feels when we don't get the positive results even after a lot of effort.
Hi @DigitalKnight, we have the same type of leadership style. Yay! You brought up a good point in giving up after seeing no positive results. It's something I also have to work on myself. Keep up the good work you do around this community.