Leadership style is a personal thing and it comes naturally in every individual related to their personality types. It is determined by behavior like introversion and extraversion, thinking and feeling, and judging and perceiving. And all these behaviors have a big impact on the success and failure of a leader, and consequently the success and failure of a business.
Do you know your leadership style? You might know where you’ve had successes or failures, but do you know the type of leadership where you are most effective?
Today and tomorrow, Promotional Consultant Today shares these insights from business writer Vartika Kashyap.
According to Kashyap, the first step in determining your leadership style is to evaluate the following personal characteristics.
Your core values: Leaders who have the most deeply held values of behaviors, choices and actions lead in the best way. And all this is an outcome of personal leadership style. So, identify your core characteristics that are the principles and that you use to make decisions. They are the steady things in life and will help you weigh choices in life.
Your personality traits: Your personality traits will determine your natural style and how you are molded. There isn’t any particular trait that can win, all are equal and good in their own way. Whether you are an introvert, extrovert, disciplined or action-oriented you will perform in your best ways for good results. What differs is just the amount of effort you put in. All these personality traits are also an important foundation of style for leadership.
Strengths and weaknesses: How was your performance in the past and what is your tendency to perform now? All these things will determine how you are learning and moving towards your strengths and weaknesses. When you get to know about both your strengths and weaknesses, it will help you achieve a lot of things if you know your true potential.
Feedback: Know that you’ve identified some of these characteristics, ask for some feedback. According to your personal style, ask other people how you are as a leader. Get their insights as well to determine how you are doing and where you can improve as a leader.
Now that you’ve analyzed your personal characteristics, determine the type of leadership role in which you are most effective. We’ll share these roles in tomorrow’s issue of PCT.
Source: Vartika Kashyap is a marketing manager at ProofHub and featured writer on LinkedIn. She’s also a contributor at Huffington Post, The Next Web and Your Story.
