There are Potentially Infinite Styles of Leading

There are Potentially Infinite Styles of Leading

When I began giving speeches, workshops, training programs or facilitating Retreats focused on Developing Leaders I began using Leader Styles to help the various leaders and future leaders explore that the 

BEST LEADERS ARE THEMSELVES

while understanding ALL those who follow them.

While I was working on my doctorate I studied many Thinking Styles models and used them with many audiences and classrooms of students to help them 

UNDERSTAND YOURSELF IN ORDER TO WORK BETTER WITH OTHERS

I created my own basic Thinking Style Model based upon a great deal of experience with hundreds of others and especially after I did a Correlation Study using 300 separate tests, questionnaires, quizzes that produced scores of .9 and higher, basically saying that they all were very much the same.

They ranged from quick exercises to tests with over 200 questions.

Because I often did lunch time speeches I needed something shorter than 200 questions.  I created my M.I.N.D. Design questionnaire with only 9 questions in 1982 and have used it now for 35 years around the globe.  Over the next few years I developed 20 question versions (Ranking, Rating) and open ended versions as well that could be used during one on one counseling or coaching sessions

If you want to take the questionnaire go to:

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

answer the 9 questions and click on the REPORT to discover what might be your preferred Leading Style

The Four Basic Types are

MEDITATIVE

INTUITIVE

NEGOTIATIVE

DIRECTIVE

The following handout pages provide detailed information about M.I.N.D. Design™

Here is an exercise format I created in place of a test.

 Here are lists of various famous leaders and my analysis of their Leading Style(s)

This shows 20 comparisons of traits

One of foundations of my work over the past 41 years is

If I can observe, learn or discover your Thinking Style
then I can project what might be your

Learning Style
Communicating Style
Team Style
Leading Style

and potentially your preferred style for doing most things in your life.

One program I created during the 80s when Diversity was a hot topic was

DIFFERENCES DIVIDE
DIVERSITY ENRICHES

All of us develop or perhaps were born with ways of doing things, STYLES.

Each style can

Coincide
Compliment
Contrast
Contradict

with other styles.  This poster indicates how they interact.

Here is a comparison of many of the most popular Style Models that were among the 300 I studied in 1984.

My primary message for future and present leaders

The most Productive and Successful Leaders are true to themselves while learning how to work with all other people.