Leadership Styles to Strive For, and to Avoid
Posted: September 13, 2016
Leadership style is often the factor that influences the productivity of a team. Others look up to leaders for guidance and when their style can greatly affect the people they manage. These are the leadership styles to strive for and also ones to avoid.
Karla Cook, writer for Hubspot, shares what types of leadership styles you should avoid and what ones to reach for.
"A good leader should always … "
How you finish that sentence could reveal a lot about your leadership style.
That's the idea behind a management survey tool called the Leadership Development Profile. Created by psychologist Susanne Cook-Greuter and professor Bill Torbert, the survey relies on a set of 36 open-ended sentence completion tasks to help researchers better understand how leaders develop and grow.
Participants are asked to finish open-ended phrases like "Good leaders always ... " with whatever sounds most natural to them. After that, a team of trained evaluators examine the results and determine where the survey taker's current leadership style fits into one of the predetermined categories called "action logics."
Read the entire article 3 Leadership Styles to Strive For, and 3 to Avoid on Hubspot.