What's Your Leadership Style?

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What's Your Leadership Style?

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Authoritative. Coercive. Transformative. Which leadership style best describes you? Episode 68 of Faithful on the Clock breaks down some of the most common types of leadership and then introduces a twist to help you think differently about them all. 

Timestamps:

[00:04] - Intro

[00:37] - Leadership sets the tone for an organization and accounts for as much as 30 percent of the company’s bottom line.

[01:49] - Leadership styles are broken down in different ways, but the most important thing is just to grasp that things are going to look different from leader to leader.

[02:26] - Summary of leadership styles from Corporate Finance Institute

[05:28] - Summary of leadership styles from Daniel Goleman

[07:03] - The labels are not critical in looking at styles. But Goleman likely was on the right track in that he connected the styles to what was happening between people.

[07:37] - You can always go online to take a test to assess your style, but there are other ways to figure out where you lean, such as looking at the people you admire, considering your strengths and weaknesses, thinking of your personality, and getting insights from others.

[09:12] - Goleman asserted people flip-flip in and out of the styles based on their circumstances. You can think of leadership as a spectrum or ratio set, and all of us are capable of displaying any style in that spectrum or set.

[10:29] - Jesus was a powerful servant leader, but was also adept in other styles.

[11:52] - Because God is adept at all leadership styles, He can handle anything and be stable. We have a responsibility to model Him and prepare ourselves for His work by becoming adept in leadership styles, as well.

[12:48] - Prayer

[13:29] - Outro/What’s coming up next

Key takeaways:

• Leadership style influences the company’s line by as much as 30 percent. So paying attention to the characteristics of your leadership is important. 
• There are multiple ways of looking at or classifying leadership styles. The most important element is to recognize that traits vary.
• Corporate Financial Institute recognizes seven leadership styles: Democratic, autocratic, laissez-faire, transformational, transactional, bureaucratic, and servant. 
• Daniel Goleman proposes six leadership styles: Coercive, affiliative, authoritative, democratic, pacesetting, and coaching. 
• Options for discovering your leadership style include taking a quiz, looking at the people you admire, thinking of your strengths and weaknesses, assessing your personality, and asking for feedback from others about what style they think you have.
• Professionals often think about falling into one type of leadership style. But good leaders flip-flop through the different styles based on their circumstances. We are all capable of being any type of leader, but we might sit on one point of the spectrum most of the time.
• Multiple stories from the New Testament reveal that Jesus was adept at using different leadership styles as necessary for His ministry. 
• Recognizing that God can use many leadership styles means that He can handle anything and is stable. He is therefore worthy of your trust. It also means that, as we are made in His image, we ought to emulate Him and try to use different styles based on what life demands. Learning how to move between styles can equip you to respond better to whatever He might call you to do.

• Goleman Leadership Styles | Know The 6 Types of Leadership | Personio
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• Leadership That Gets Results

CTAs:

• Come up with and implement at least one way to become more adept at moving between leadership styles, whether that’s finding a mentor, signing up for training, or reading about great leaders with different approaches.

What’s coming up next:

Sometimes people aren’t fired or laid off — they’re demoted. Episode 69 of Faithful on the Clock outlines what to do if that happens to you, leaning on the story of a founding pastor who was told to step aside.

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