For Managers: Flexing your Leadership Styles

For modern managers, raising self-awareness of stylistic tendencies in teams is an important starting point on the journey towards intentional and emotionally intelligent leadership.

The Six Leadership Styles

In his classic 2002 book, Primal Leadership, Daniel Goleman describes six distinct styles: Directive, Affiliative, Democratic, Coaching, Pace-setting and Visionary.

Each can have a different impact and effect on people's emotions, capability and performance — and each of the styles has its own strengths and weaknesses, in different situations. As managers and leaders, the challenge is to be able to consciously combine and move between them, depending on the circumstances we find ourselves leading within — and the different personalities involved.

In this collaborative, action-oriented and scenario-based session — led by a YCN coach-facilitator — we'll consider our own preferences when it comes to the styles in which we lead and manage others — and open ourselves up to flexing a wider range for greater impact in different situations.

As noted below, everyone joining will be asked to complete a 20-minute digital mini-module ahead of the live session — as part of our Manager Foundations pathway.

Content we'll collaboratively cover

• The Leadership Styles archetypes
• Modes of modern management
• Our style tendencies, and stretch-zones
• The situational leadership concept
• Helpful style combos, for specific scenarios