Leadership Styles: Discovering Your Own Style and Appreciating Differences

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Leadership StylesDiscovering Your Own Style and
Appreciating Differences

• David M. Irby, Ph.D.
• University of California
• San Francisco

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Preview

• Understanding Your Style Preferences
• Appreciating Differences
• Communicating Effectively
• Creating Productive and Cooperative Teams

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Leadership Styles

• Leadership involves achieving remarkable results
  through others
• Styles are systematic ways of perceiving,
  thinking and acting
• Styles provide four windows on the world
• Ideals, Action, Logic, Harmony(feelings)
• Everyone has each style and has preferences
• Each style has strengths and challenges

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Understanding Your Style Preferences

• Idealist
• Activist
• Analyst
• Harmonizer

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Idealist Style

• Pursues excellence and ideals
• Helps and supports others
• Stresses cooperation, participation and loyalty
• Does what is right
• Listens to others

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Idealist Style Challenges

• Set realistic expectations
• Initiate action
• Remain flexible

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Activist Style

• Action and task oriented
• Takes charge and gets results
• Leads in direct and forceful manner
• Organizes others and achieves results

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Activist Style Challenges

• Reduce speed
• Involve others
• Focus
• Follow procedures

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Analyst Style

• Analytical, methodical, practical
• Objective and rational
• Establishes and follows plans
• Relies on fair policies and procedures

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Analyst Style Challenges

• Move more rapidly without data
• Set priorities
• Be sensitive to feelings

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Harmonizer Style

• Enthusiastic and sociable
• Flexible and adaptable
• Seeks consensus and harmony
• Works for flexible and adaptive solutions

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Harmonizer Style Challenges

• Be organized and task oriented
• Maintain direction
• Confront differences

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Four Style Preferences

• Idealist
• Activist
• Analyst
• Harmonizer

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Understanding Differences

• Select your most preferred style
• 1. Idealist, 2. Activist, 3. Analyst,
  4. Harmonizer
• Assemble by style
• If more than five, sub-divide
• Introduce yourselves
• Appoint a recorder
• Discuss the case (general approach)

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Four Style Preferences

• Idealist
• Activist
• Analyst
• Harmonizer

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Communicating Effectively

• Lead with your strength
• Appreciate differences
• Adapt to different styles
• Use multiple approaches