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
✒️ What is your leadership style?
🌹 I am an Affiliative leader. I have leadership style that encourages relationships between people, prompting them to work together.
✒️ Respond to one of your peers who share your leadership style!
🌹 I agree with vivelespatates and CharmingFlower8111 that there were other answers which I felt would be applicable depending on situation.
@RainbowRosie
I was also given Affiliative leader, too. And I agree, as well, that a couple of them felt circumstantial but picking out your general approaches didn’t require much overthought luckily.
@Hope
✒️ What is your leadership style?
Affiliative leader
✒️ Respond to one of your peers who share your leadership style!
Gottie! On it. ♡
@zaatarHoney 😊 I received this result as well. I love that we both can bring people together to accomplish a goal!
@zaatarHoney
I see our paths have crossed again. 😃 *high five!* I'm also an affiliative leader.
@richuyulin
You know, that makes total sense!! 😂♥︎ You got definite affiliative leader vibes (and actions).
@Hope
i'm a visionary leader.
@spedolivia Hello fellow visionary leader!
@Hope I am a Visionary leader.
@Hope
I received the result of an affiliative leader. The quiz illuminated that I approach leadership with a focus on working together. According to this quiz, I know the needs of my team/partners very well. Results say that my most significant strength is conflict resolution, but it hasn't always been; I worked hard on that skill. The authors mention that I am a hype person. I also liked how the quiz included pulling those who prefer to work individually into a group project.
@broadfemmelovelive
Great results, I'm also a leader with an affiliative style, and it's so nice to see more of us around.
@Hope
✒️ What is your leadership style?
According to the test result, I'm an affiliative leader.
@richuyulin
It's wonderful we are the same leadership styles! I think this style also sees the bigger picture and is a peacemaker of sorts who supports those on the team toward higher goals.
@richuyulin
I have noticed a huge amount of 7cups listeners are affiliative leaders and I feel like this website is a strong magnet for empathetic leaders focused on communication and listening. Peacemakers are important to bring the warmth to this environment. From my experience with you in Academy Hub, you do a good job of it
😊 Same here! 😊
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@Hope
✒️ What is your leadership style?
I'm a democratic leader!
Hiya @jadenrjc7
Looks like we're leadership buddies! Best of luck with your leadership journey and life in general!
Hope you're having a great day!
@Hope
I'm an affiliative leader mainly. This totally makes sense to me when I review my own leadership opportunities and how I moved forward.
@Hope
I'm a visionary leader!
I feel this fits me well as I think it's important to motivate and delegate, I believe everyone has strengths and weaknesses and if we work together we can be unstoppable.
Visionary sounds grand! I am glad that you find that it fits. 😊
According to the quiz, I am an affiliative leader. I think there is truth in that. I like input and I want others to collaborate. But I had problems with some of the questions and I think I could give different answers too.
