Leadership Style Assessment

After completing my 'Leadership Style Assessment', I found that I have predominantly style of coaching, with a large number of affiliative elements as well. 

An area I would like to develop is becoming more visionary.

This means that I need to work on mobilising people towards a vision and generate self-confidence and empathy in those I manage.

The visionary style can be one of the most effective leadership styles. An organisation that has lost its way can be most effectively turned around by this approach. 

The visionary leader motivates people by making it clear how their work fits into the bigger picture, and helps them to understand how what they do matters.

In doing this, the visionary leader defines standards and gives clear feedback.

Flexibility is maintained by allowing people the leeway to choose their own means of achieving the clearly stated objectives.

The danger with the visionary style is that it can become overbearing and exhausting, which can disrupt the work of effective and experienced teams.