[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. i am an affiliative leader !
2. i encourage relationships with people and make sure everyone works as a team. i also understand the needs of others well :)
3. i would love to improve on getting a little less stressed about people not working together-- i'd love a little more patience <3 i'm going to practice this
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
Affiliative
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I prompt others to work together.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
Asserting my opinion where necessary. I often second guess myself, leading to indecisiveness and disunity that stalls progress.
im affiative too! i find sharing my own beliefs can be hard too
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
visionary leader
2. What is one thing you learned about
yourself?
That my greatest strength is the ability to motivate people
3. What is one thing you would like to
improve upon?
I would like to improve my influence over people
being able to encourage and motivate people is a great strength!
@AliveandAlive Motivating team members is a huge aspect, well done! <3
@Heather225
I am a democratic leader
I like to discuss before making any decisions I believe in collective intelligence
I want to improve on social skills ,decision making keeping boundaries
@nessa104 the parts you mentioned to be improved are important in becoming a better leader.
@nessa104
@Heather225What is leadrership style Affiliative
Affiliative What is your leadership style?
Affiliative Leader
What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I had not realized I lead in this way.
What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
To learn more about this kind of leadership while practicing patience..
@00Michelle00 patience is the key to develop better skills as leader, im sure you will be better in future.
What is your leadership style?
According to this quiz, my leadership style is Affiliative
What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I feel I knew some of these qualities about me and definitely align with my personality but only realized this after taking the test. I learned that I am a good motivator and can encourage others and help with a positive environment. As an affiliative leader, I learned that I'm able to support an environment where people trust one another and with good team morale, that I can help keep the tensions down in a team and that I can help others feel supported and acknowledged.
What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
Something I'd like to improve upon as a leader would be to improve my communication skills. I am not super comfortable confronting people. I don't ever want to make anyone upset or hurt. I could try to be more direct and enforce stronger boundaries and be more decisive. Sometimes boundaries can be challenging.
Please reply to 3 of your peers in this thread!
done (:
@Estrellitaa i like colors on your writing and it is nice to see you know your strenght and weakness
1. What is your leadership style?
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
"You set high standards and expect everyone to meet them."
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
I'm not sure what kind of leader is needed in situtaions so i can shift to that style.
What is your leadership style?
My leadership style is the first of which is responsibility towards others, improving your skills, and the desire to change for the better! Helping others with regard to some of the issues related to development and growth, and I try to obtain sufficient capabilities to achieve success, taking into account the bigger picture.
2-What is one think you learned about yourself?
I have my own leadership style that depends on the level of competence I have reached. I also learned the importance of adapting to circumstances, events and people, because this leads to easy steps that I must perform with the group well, and I learned to help others in promoting harmony and positive results with a coercive and fast method. If the leaders are used in a particular style.
3-what is one think you would like to improve upon?
Self-care is what I want the most to improve to make a positive difference for me, and also increase confidence and not be afraid in highlighting abilities and determining speed, vision and true belonging to the work I do with the group. I also want to highlight my skills in a bigger picture than now
In order to achieve continuous advancement and prosperity.
@Zahraa000
I love your response! It is very insightful!!
@Zahraa000 Nice
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
A visionary leader!
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
I learned that I have a strong charisma and empathy as well as an inspiring vision which can help lead the way for others. I also learned that I have a very clear overall vision for any situation.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
One thing that I would like to improve on is making sure to listen to team members and not simply delegate.
@magicmango26
Yes I agree. I also need to learn to listen to team members.
@magicmango26 I hope you will achieve your goal and listen to your team members, thanks for sharing <3
@magicmango26 great thing to want to improve on
@magicmango26 That's my leadership style too!
@Heather225
1. What is your leadership style?
- I am an affiliative leader.
2. What is one thing you learned about yourself?
- One thing that I learned about myself is that my leadership approach focuses on working together as a team.
3. What is one thing you would like to improve upon?
- I would like to improve upon my team working skills.
@NoelleListens I have the same leadership style, What are you doing to be a better leader? Are you doing team building excerises?