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Course 2, Discussion 1: Understanding your Leadership Style

Hope December 5th, 2022

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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Countrygirl095 February 19th

@Hope I agree with my leadership results. I scored a 27 out of 35 for visionary and I agree with it because it described my style of leadership. VISIONARY

Your Score: 27 out of 35
   
Provides long-term direction and vision. Moves people toward shared dreams by ensuring that the direction is in the long-term best interests of the group and the organisation.
   
Use When changes require new vision, a clear direction is needed, the leader is perceived as an authority.
   
Don't use When trying to promote self-managed work teams and participatory decision making.
COACHING
Your Score: 13 out of 35
   
Invests in the long-term professional development of employees. Helps individuals with their development plans and provides ongoing support and feedback.
   
Use To help employees develop and improve performance in the long-term, when employee sees the need for development and is motivated to take initiative.
   
Don't use When employees require too much direction and feedback. When in crises.
AFFILIATIVE
Your Score: 22 out of 35
   
Cultivates relationships with employees. Rewards personal characteristics and avoids performance-related confrontations.
   
Use To help resolve conflict, motivate during stressful times, strengthen connections.
   
Don't use When performance is inadequate, in complex situations needing clear direction and control, with employees who are task-oriented. And I send my encouragement to everyone
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TheOnlyChresser March 8th

@Countrygirl095 Good to see your dedication! :D

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ChromaticFinss February 20th

I got equal scores for pace setting and affiliative.

Test was good but seems that there is some error because the interpretation area and assessment results area shows interchanged scores for two types.

calmstrawberry0608 February 25th

✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?

I got affiliative leader

✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?

I agree with the quiz because I like cultivating relationships with my team members when it comes to resolving conflicts, communication, and moving forward.
JustSophia February 27th

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.

4Jasmine February 27th

@Hope

I scored the same in both. 35 out of 35.

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JustSophia February 27th

@4Jasmine

Wow!  Those are pretty high scores!  Which areas are you talking about? 

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4Jasmine February 28th

@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!👍

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JustSophia February 29th

@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!  

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4Jasmine February 29th

@JustSophia

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4Jasmine February 27th

@Hope

I agree with this quiz. 

lovingAngel2307 March 3rd

I am an affiliative leadership style. I make sure that my team is approaching everything in a healthy way 

sky2Ocean20 March 6th

@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. 

March 8th

@Hope

I'm a affirmative leader 

TheOnlyChresser March 8th

✒️ 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.