[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?
I am a democratic leader.
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I am a good listener which can in turn = foster creativity.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
Being an assertive leader. I find it difficult to say no or to have difficult conversations such as giving a person feedback.
@jovialButterfly6752
I am glad you got to know something to work on , it can be hard to give feedback, but feedback helps us grow and is so very needed . Best wishes, you'll be a great leader with your effective communicative skills . ❤
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
I am a Visionary Leader.
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I learnt that I am considered motivational – while I already considered myself trusting of those I work with; I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I could be described as a leader that has both charism and empathy.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
One thing I would like to improve on is my pacesetting – to better be able to schedule myself and help others time manage a project or goal without putting too much pressure or being too lax.
@warmLove3625 Great work on determining weaknesses and strengths. Trusting others is also meaning that it should be good at delegation. Sounds very nice to me. Keep going, hope you improve.
What is your leadership style
Democratic leader
What is one thing you learned about yourself
I have learned that although is it good to take on other peoples suggestions I have to go with my own decision and make the call. The people working for me all be it that we are a team must remember that I am the one in charge so finding an balance between being a friend and taking on their ideas to sometimes telling them look this is they way its gonna be.
What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I would like to improve on my own confidence. To have a plan an walk in an say ‘’here is what we are going to do’’ I cant please everyone and sometimes that is just the way it has to be
@Fergie12299
I agree on the part where you can't please everyone
@Fergie12299 It's indeed impossible to please everyone and it's important to find the balance of being a friend and being in charge. I agree on that.
1. What is your leadership style?
I am an affiliative leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
My leadership approach involves focusing on the importance of working together.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
Ability to recognize other's leadership potentials
1. What is your leadership style? affiliative leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself? my greatest strength lies in myability to ease tensions or motivate all my team members during difficult periods
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon? I would like to improve on focusing on individual strenghts and weaknesses when working in a team so that we have the best experience and outcome.
@BellatheHappyHelper
That's a great thing to work on!
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
Pacesetting leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I learned that I expect a lot of self motivation from my team mates, I expect them to get the work done as perfectly as I expect them to do
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I want to accept others working style, performace and learning pace in a way that I shouldn't expect them all to perform excellently nor do what I hope they would do.
@generousBreeze169
Yay on learning new things , it is understandable to set high standards as a leader, but ofcourse, everyone has different capacities and I am glad you're willing to work on being more accepting and encouraging . Such a wonderful quality of a leader . Woohoo ❤
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
Affiliative Leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I encourage other people to build relationships with other team members to work as a team better.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I would like to improve on the ability to trust myself and the decisions I make, lots of times I'm too worried that my decision will be wrong that I don't take it, and then someone else takes my decision themselves and i see I should have.
@kieran000
*high fives* , I got an affiliative leader too, and I relate with the need to be more confident ! We'll get there one day at a time, but isn't it so great to know, affiliative leaders are able to foster good relationships with team . Yay us 😊❤
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
You're amazinggg, thanks for replying to this! 🤗❤️
@kieran000
*high fives* , I got an affiliative leader too, and I relate with the need to be more confident ! We'll get there one day at a time, but isn't it so great to know, affiliative leaders are able to foster good relationships with team . Yay us 😊❤
@Heather225
1. My leadership style is an affiliate leader.
2. One thing I learned about myself is that my greatest strength lies in the ability to ease tensions or to motivate team members.
3. One thing I’d like to improve on is better communication.
@KristinHelps It is great that you can ease tensions and motivate. Best of luck on improving your communication!
1. What is your leadership style?
Visionary.
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
Motivating and inspiring. Seeing the big picture. Future-oriented, one-goal focused.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
Seeing details, other opportunities and being present-oriented.
1. What is your leadership style?
Communicating Vision 41
2. �What is one thing you learned about yourself? �
I learnt sometimes i cant communicate my ideas in the best way
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
Work on my presentation skills
