What is your Leadership style?
What: To consider ourself and reflect on the different styles of Leadership to get a better understanding of who we are and how we will leave as leaders.
Why: Leadership Styles: Knowing which of the leadership styles works best for you is part of being a good leader. Developing a signature style with the ability to stretch into other styles as the situation warrants may help enhance your leadership effectiveness.
How: To find out about some common Leadership styles and to take a leadership quiz to see if we can identify the type of leader we might be.
Why: Leadership Styles: Knowing which of the leadership styles works best for you is part of being a good leader. Developing a signature style with the ability to stretch into other styles as the situation warrants may help enhance your leadership effectiveness.
How: To find out about some common Leadership styles and to take a leadership quiz to see if we can identify the type of leader we might be.
Task 1: Watch the Video and reflect on the differences between the Leadership styles.
Leaderhip StylesAutocratic
Democratic Laissez Faire Transformational |
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Reflection
What style do you think best describes you?
What type of leader are you?
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What is your type?
Your teacher will give you the scores - add up your colours. The most dominant colour is your dominant style.
Does this sound like you?
Does this sound like you?
What leadership style would work well in these senarios?
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Some points for Reflection
1. Know yourself. Start by raising your awareness of your dominant leadership style. You can do this by asking people you trust to describe the strengths of your leadership style. You can also take a leadership style assessment.
2. Understand the different styles.Get familiar with the repertoire of leadership styles that can work best for a given situation. What new skills do you need to develop?
3. Practice makes a leader. Be genuine with any approach you use. Moving from a dominant leadership style to a different one may be challenging at first. Practice the new behaviors until they become natural. In other words, don't use a different leadership style as a "point-and-click" approach. People can smell a fake leadership style a mile away—authenticity rules.
4. Develop your leadership agility. Traditional leadership styles are still relevant in today's workplace, but they may need to be combined with new approaches in line with how leadership is defined for the 21st century.
2. Understand the different styles.Get familiar with the repertoire of leadership styles that can work best for a given situation. What new skills do you need to develop?
3. Practice makes a leader. Be genuine with any approach you use. Moving from a dominant leadership style to a different one may be challenging at first. Practice the new behaviors until they become natural. In other words, don't use a different leadership style as a "point-and-click" approach. People can smell a fake leadership style a mile away—authenticity rules.
4. Develop your leadership agility. Traditional leadership styles are still relevant in today's workplace, but they may need to be combined with new approaches in line with how leadership is defined for the 21st century.