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?
Total Democratic Score is: 25 out of 35
| Generates ideas and builds commitment among employees through participation and consensus. | |
| Use | To get valuable input, to get alignment between team members or buy-in. |
| Don't use | When there is no time to hold meetings, with employees that need close supervision. |
Personally, I have been feeling like I don't know how to deal with leading a cross-functional team. Until I started babysitting.
@Hope
Ola Ola
I scored highest in coaching. But doing business myself I think its important to look all of these aspects together and make an assessment if the quiz makes sense.
Looking them all together and taking into account all of different situations that may arise etc, I think its pretty accurate. A good conclusive view of basic traits.
| Total Visionary Score is: 31 out of 35 |
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| Total Coaching Score is: 33 out of 35 |
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| Total Democratic Score is: 29 out of 35 |
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| Total Affiliative Score is: 31 out of 35 |
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| Total Pacesetting Score is: 32 out of 35 |
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| Total Commanding Score is: 22 out of 35 |
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@Hope I scored higher in democratic and I do believe this aligns with me
@Hope
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
I scored highest for Visionary with my score as 21 out of 35!
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
I agree with this quiz—I'm all about big ideas and painting an inspiring picture of the future.
Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
I scored highest with the affiliative leadership style (35 out of 35) which means that I cultivate relationships with employees and is useful to help resolve confrontations.
Do you agree with this quiz?
I think I do I believe that I do prioritize relationships as I think that if your team are happier they are more likely to work harder and have better quality results but I don't feel like I have too much experience in leadership so might not be too accurate for me especially in certain aspects of the test such as long-term goal as have limited experience there.
@Hope
I scored highest for the 'Democratic' leadership style.
I agree with this quiz because I value collaboration and input from others. I believe involving the team in decision making leads to more comprehensive and effective solutions.
@Damonchandio
I strongly agree, and think the democratic leadership style is really important!
@Hope
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
The highest score I received was 32/35 for visionary, democratic, and affiliative leadership.
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
I believe that leadership-wise, the best role I have is affiliative and visionary. This is due to my tendency to connect with others and making sure that the work we do aligns with our long-term visions!
@Hope i got the highest ins coaching 33 out of 35
Do i agree: yes i do believe as a leader you should give however you are leading a little push from time to time to help directe them in the right direction
Though it's good to have more than one leading styles and techniques cuz not everyone is the same and some people might need different approach to be able to help them 💗
@Hope
✒️ Which leadership style did you score the highest for?
DEMOCRATIC
✒️ Do you agree with this quiz?
to some extent yes. I haven't been in a proper leadership position before but when I am in a team setting, I try to ensure that everyone's option and thoughts has been considered before making a group decision. I think that has translated over to democratic
@Hope
1. I scored the highest in Coaching with Visionary next.
2. I could resonate greatly while reading through the leadership styles as I beleive developing an individual would develop the society in turn positively influencing the overall growth and progress of both.