[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?
Affiliative Leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I learned that i can motivate and encourage people to work together in groups. I can help them build understandings and the productive connection.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I tend to give up on my team when i see no positive results after trying everything. I get frustrated. As a result, we move back to square one, I would like to see me determined to help them, despite no results. I need to increase my patience.
@DigitalKnight
We both have same type of leadership style. Thanks for sharing. I agree with you❤
@DigitalKnight
yeah... i can understand how bad it feels when we don't get the positive results even after a lot of effort.
Hi @DigitalKnight, we have the same type of leadership style. Yay! You brought up a good point in giving up after seeing no positive results. It's something I also have to work on myself. Keep up the good work you do around this community.
@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!
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
Affiliative leader - a leader who encourages, motivates and uplifts others to work autonomously and as a team. A part of that is conflict management.
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I already knew this about myself. I learned that these quizzes are good reflection tools and that these quizzes are helpful to me.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon? Balance and harmony. It's a continual process.
4. Please reply to 3 of your peers in this thread!
Ok
@peacefulIris56
heyy! Iris, we have the same type of leadership style.
It's good to see you again.☺️
@shallowWater7547 It's nice to see you again as well!!!
1. What is your leadership style?
I'm a affiliative leader. This style of leadership encourages relationship between people prompting them to work together and it primarily focus on the positive feedback to create sucess.
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
That my greatest strength lies in my ability to ease tensions and motivate all my team members during difficult period.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I think, that i become too much involved with everyone's problem. I feel sad about their problems and sometimes, i worry too much about others that i feel the need to fix their problems myself.
@Heather225
What kind of leader are you?
You are 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.
1. What is your leadership style?
Mine is affiliative leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
that I would like a team who works together and help one another out
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
That everyone on the team is bein g heard
4. Please reply to 3 of your peers in this thread!
@pamharley003 That's a great area to improve in! It is so important everyone is heard <3
What is your leadership style?
I’m an affiliative leader.
What is one thing you learned about yourself?
One thing I learned about myself is that my greatest strength lies in my ability to ease tension or motivate all my team members during difficult periods. (Though it does make sense given that I’m an active global moderator who is known for de-escalating situations in chat rooms.)
What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
One thing I would like to improve upon is to be more mindful of the fact that there’s no such thing as perfection. To be gentle, but direct when giving feedback instead of criticizing them and making them feel bad about not reaching a certain expectation.
@richuyulin
Lin, it's amazing to know we have got the same leadership style because I look up to you so much! I am glad you got to learn that about yourself, I have certainly seen you be a great moderator literally everywhere and do your best to ease the tension. I agree, perfect is a seven-letter word that doesn't even exist. I hope you can improve and get better with the thing you mentioned. You are awesome, thank you for sharing! 
You can't give your life more time, so give the time you have, more life.
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
I am an affiliate leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I have a leadership style that encourages relationships between people, prompting them to work together. My approach involves focusing on the importance of working together. I also understand the needs of your1 team and my 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.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I would love to work on confrontation I often do not confront people in fear of hurting them or coming off as rude
Every winner was once a loser who got up and gave it one more shot
@mamtasha22 I am glad to hear that you have a leadership style that encourages unity between people. It's so important for everyone to be able to work together in positive and optimistic ways. Handling confrontation is not easy at times, but it is something that we get more skilled at, comfortable with, and self-confident about as we practice it.
1. What is your leadership style?
My leadership style is Affiliative Leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I learned that as a leader my primary goal is to excel as a team and I try to bring people together. I understand the needs of what my teammates may want from me and work towards helping them out with anything that I can. I can defuse the tension and try helping my teammates and partners through their difficult times, motivating them, and just being there to help out.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I would like to improve with personal boundaries. I may get too concerned about my teammates and focus on them feeling better and sometimes losing focus on what we have to achieve as a team. I also get easily discouraged when I learn that my efforts haven't turned out to be as useful for the people on my team, so I would like to look at the brighter side and try harder to bring people together again, even if at certain times it may mean I have to change my approach.
You can't give your life more time, so give the time you have, more life.
@lueurspace It is a great strength to be able to defuse tension between two parties, that's awesome!
My leadership style is Affiliative Leader
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I learned that as a leader my biggest strength is making people work together. My approach is based on and solely focuses on working together to achieve the desired results. I am also good at reading the needs of the team and hence can try to satisy them.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I think I would like to improve on effective delegation. Sometimes I try to micro manage and that can cause friction. So I need to take a step back and trust my team members.
What is your leadership style?
I am an affiliative leader
What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I am able to encourage people to work together
What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
While it is true that I am good at encouraging teamwork, it is sometimes necessary for people to work independently. This is something I should remember to be aware of.
We have the same leadership style and I agree that some people need to work independently and then come together to collaborate to give the best results.
