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
Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
I had a tie with coaching and VISIONARY both with a 33/35
Do you agree with this quiz?
I would say so, I think these are both good qualities to use when trying to be a leader, however I do think these need to be back with other leadership qualities.
@Hope
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
the leadership style that i scored the highest for is is pacesetting
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
i agree with this quiz! this quiz was informative and gave me a sense of self-realization
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
• I scored highest in affiliative and second highest was democratic. This means that I put people first and what do they think....
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
• Definitely agree. I like putting others first
@Hope
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
VISIONARY
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
Partially
@Hope my highest scores were for affiliative and pacemaking.
I did find the quiz helpful to understand my leadership style
Hi @Hope
My style is "Commanding" (34/35)
If I were to say base on the explanation given, then I would agree to it to about 75%
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for? affiliate closely followed by coaching and visionary.
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?yes I would definitely say this is pretty accurate. Definitely accurate about my parenting style.
@Hope I got 33/35 at coaching. I always think that people know themselves more than anybody else, and the same people are the building blocks of the team. So we should rather focus on individuals than the team or goals and invest in the people.
@wonderousLove3994 sounds great
@Hope
Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
So I tied with Visionary and Affiliative as the top two Leadership styles with Coaching just one point below those two, and Commanding as the lowest of all of them.
Do you agree with this quiz?
I actually do agree with this quiz. I firmly believe that people come first. If my employees (I've been a Manager before) are not happy or being encouraged and are told more of what they are doing wrong than what they are doing right, I find that their performance suffers and they end up quitting the job. I also firmly believe in being "in the trenches", as they say, with the people I am in leadership above. I believe everyone is equal and should work together as a team. Sure, I'm the one with the leadership title, but to me, all that means is that if something goes wrong, it falls on me to be accountable for. I think being a leader means being in the trenches with those under your supervision, and showing by example how things should be done. Working together as a team and motivating and uplifting one another. Like the description says, "come with me". Everyone should have a voice, and everyone matters. Their happiness and comfort at work comes first, because ultimately, that drives their performance.
@KaylaMaulfair
I really appreciate your perspective, Kayla. It sounds like you'd be a good manager.
