[Archived] Course 4. Foundational Leadership Principles: (Discussion #1) Understanding your Leadership Style
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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.
To lead others effectively, you need a good blend of 4 broad competencies area
If you have a surplus amount of knowledge on how to lead but not a good emotional quotient (EQ), you will find it hard to tackle leadership challenges. Having a good EQ is as important as having the right skills, and if you have skills but not the right attitude and values, you won't be able to achieve your full potential as a leader. Your attitude and values impact how others view you as a leader. We need an alignment in all 4 areas.
You have your very own leadership style based on your competency level. So, the next step is to label your original leadership style. Because you can switch to any leadership style with deliberate effort, thought, and adaptation.
Daniel Goleman categorizes leadership approaches in 6 broad styles. Authoritative, Coaching, Affiliative, and Democratic help one to promote harmony and positive outcomes while Coercive and Pacesetting styles of leadership need to be used in specific situations as they could cause tension.
Your original style could be one 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.
Lets get started!
- Please take the leadership style test here: https://www.energir.com/blogue/en/at-work/quiz-what-kind-of-leader-are-you/
Next step, below in the comments of this discussion, share
1. What is your leadership style?
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
4. Please reply to 3 of your peers in this thread!
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@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
4. Please reply to 3 of your peers in this thread!
visionary leader- my style is very motivating. "you have a very clear overall vision of each situation, meaning that you excel at defining the purpose of every project you take on".
It mainly clarified that I will encourage and motivate my team and that I know what I want out of this and for others. But I also lesrnt that I was charismatic.
Possibly to be more flexible in case the vision doesn't work and to allow that with open hands.
1. What is your leadership style?
Democratic
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I learned that I rely on collective intelligence
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
Tact and buy-in when obtaining input
1.) My leadership style is either Affiliative - a leadership style that encourages relationships between people, prompting them to work together.
2.) One thing I learned about myself is the importance of working together.
3.) I'd like to improve my style of communicating my vision clearly and firmly to the team
@JoeyTribbbiani
It is great to hear your thoughts and responses.
Thanks for sharing them. Have a great day! :)
@Heather225
1)
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. You also understand the needs of your team and your partners very well, and you try to satisfy them. Your greatest strength lies in your ability to ease tensions or motivate all your team members during difficult periods. You also have a knack for getting people who are accustomed to working alone to work together instead.
2)
I have a knack for getting people who are accustomed to working alone to work together.
3)
I would like to improve my leadership skills as I feel that I have the potential for more than what I already have been doing as a leader.
4)
Done
@lyricalAngel70
I love the color and honesty along with the description
@AdylynS
Thank you so much ❤
Have a great year ahead 💜
@Heather225
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1. What is your leadership style?
Democratic leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I learned that I have good listening skills and I love to draw ideas from my teammates.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I would like to improve my problem-solving skills and learn to be faster yet more patient with my teammates.
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@cuteOrange213
Great skills to have and work on :-)
Sounds like good thing to get better at. @cuteOrange213
@cuteOrange213
It was interesting to learn about your leadership style and I would also like to improve upon my patience with problem-solving and when working with teammates.
I learnt from you today and wish you the best on your LDPJourney!
@cuteOrange213
Awesome goal, orange!
@cuteOrange213
amazing post! great goals for improvment:)
@cuteOrange213
That's really a good thing to work at
@cuteOrange213 awesome answers!
@cuteOrange213
Your goals are valid and smart!
*Good Job*
@cuteOrange213
Reading your post, seems like we have some things in common. Amazing!
@cuteOrange213
Awesome reply!
@cuteOrange213
Glad to know you want to work on problem solving skills and be more skilled leader.
@cuteOrange213 Having good listening skills with your team-mates sounds an asset!
@cuteOrange213
Amazing!
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
Affiliative leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
That there are benefits and downsides to this style.
I noticed almost all the first half answers are Communicating Vision, while the last half to this point is Affiliative leader. What could possibly be the reason?
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
At work, I would like to find balance between trusting individual integrity and more performance evaluation to ensure optimized productivity.
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If your result is also affiliative leadership, here’s the advantages and disadvantages characteristic.
@ouiCherie
I am the same and can relate to what you would like to improve upon. :-)
@ouiCherie
I too am an affiliative leader. And yeah, I also noticed that it seems very evenly divided into the two, doesn't it? Really interesting
@GlitteringNights
Indeed interesting. Thanks for the reply ❤
@GlitteringNights
Even i am affiliated leader .
@ouiCherie
Cool! We have the same leadership style. Great post.
@ouiCherie
I have the same type of leadership style. Thank you so much for sharing it's advantages and disadvantages ❤😊
@ouiCherie
Great answers and I also agree
@ouiCherie These are good concepts to improve on!
1. What is your leadership style?
Affiliative leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I learned that I encourage relationships between people and my approach involves focusing on the importance of working together
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I would like to focus more on creativity and also work more on accepting feedback.
@sia1325
I am the same. There is something very powerful about great teamwork. :-)
@sia1325
I'm also an affiliative leader!
Focusing on creativity is such a good thing to think about, I really like that answer
I am same way on what I need to work on. @sia1325
@sia1325 great answers!
@sia1325
It seems like we have the same leadership style. Loved reading your post!
@sia1325
Oooh i have the same leadership style ;) good to know
@sia1325
Great skills you want to improve. Accepting feedback is very important.
Hi @sia1325,
Glad to see that we have the same leadership style. Glad you brought up creativity and accepting feedback because it's so important! It is also something I need to be worked on.
Great goals !
What is your leadership style?
You are an affiliative leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
It confirmed what I have been told that I do have an ability to ease tension and motivate people. I strongly believe in teamwork.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
For me it comes back to High Warmth and High Expectations, sometimes I think that I motivate people, but I also have a lot of empathy for people that my expectations lower. I think that I need to work on still having high expectations at the same I can be empathetic and promote teamwork.
@Containedchaos
I too am an affiliative leader! And that's such a good point about high empathy AND high expectations!
@Containedchaos
I would find it difficult to maintain high expectations and high warmth because I worry about hurting others. It's a delicate balance to navigate.
@Containedchaos
i haver the same leadership style hehe.. And I agree with you sometimes It an be hard for empathetic people to be critical and have high expectations. Great that you noticed it!
@Containedchaos
good points!
@Containedchaos Motivation and Teamwork are amazing leadership qualities
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style? My leadership style is affliative
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself? My strong point lies in easing tensions and helping people work together — the latter in particular surprised me more than the former.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon? I would like to learn to recognise when tensions aren't mine to solve, particularly from a productivity perspective. If a team needs to get something done while often I think that it's best to ease the tension first or throughout, I know that sometimes I have lingered too long over that instead of moving on with what needs to be done.
@GlitteringNights
As a highly sensitive person, sometimes I focus too much on the energy of others and it's hard to move forward from there. Hang on! You're doing great.
1 Affirmative leader
2 everything I already you
3 I need to work on how I will respond to conflict when it comes up.
@Colorfulcatsofhope
I relate - I too struggle when it comes to dealing with conflict.