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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✒️ What is your leadership style?
I have an affliative leader style. This leadership style works to create a cohesive team. It also seems to motivate it's team members and build connections in various ways. It also strives to include team members accustomed to working alone and those that work well with others.
@Nvlmi
I love this! You're awesome (: I think thats a really good way to explain it
@Hope
I am an affiliative leader, meaning I focus on encouraging relationships between people. I understand the needs of the team and try to satisfy them rather than go about it my way. I'm good at motivating and easing tensions.
Which makes a lot of sense, I am all in for team work.
I am also very positive by nature and encouraging.
Focusing on what we can do instead of what we can't is way more effective.
And when we work as a team, we compliment each other strengths.
We also support each other to find solutions to challenges that may come.
So no one is alone, feeling stuck on a problem.
They instead always have the option of reaching out and feeling supported.
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✒️ What is your leadership style?
You are an 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.
Team work makes the dream work 💜😛
@TabbyCat97 That's amazing, Tabs!
@Hope
✒️ What is your leadership style? I am a democratic leader - someone who believes in collective intelligence.
@Hope
I believe I am a coaching style leader - showing through example to lift others up though I would love to progress to becoming a visionary leader by making this more collaborative and two way!
@Hope
The linked test didn't tell me what type of leader I am, so this is just me making an educated guess.
I think I'm a democratic-style leader. I believe that people will be most enthusiastic about their work if they are part of the decision-making process behind it. This makes them feel included, heard, and important. If they feel satisfied with why they're working and what they're working on, they're likely to work much better and more efficiently.
@Hope
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
I got a tie between Visionary and Coaching. 24 out of 35.
But my highest is Democratic. 32 out of 35.
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
I do agree with it, actually.
@Hope Affiliative and Visionary. I scored 34/35 for both of them.
I agree with the result of this quiz.
I am a Visionary Leader
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.