Honoring Leadership Style Makes a Difference

Honoring Leadership Style Makes a Difference

 Many books I read about leadership in the early 80s stressed the importance of Leaders matching the thinking and communication styles of their various employees instead of expecting ALL THEIR EMPLOYEES to match their Leader's style.

 The challenge for the Leader is to be extremely flexible when working individually with their various employees and consistently when working with all the employees in larger groups or meetings.

 How to do yourself yet flexible when necessary is one trait that many authors wrote about being important to necessary.

 Books about teaching shared the same message

 Books about sales did as well.

 Situational Leadership was one of the books that focused on this issue
by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard.

Using my own THINKING STYLE MODEL: M.I.N.D. Design that I created based upon my studies of many accepted models from the 60s, 70s and early 80s I created this chart to illustrate how various known to famous leaders' styles might be or have been.

Then I would ask participants, audience members and students to look for their heroes and heroines to see if they might match in Leadership Styles.

How about yours?

To take my M.I.N.D. Design style questionnaire go to

http://www.cre8ng.com/m-i-n-d-design






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