Making Opportunity Count

This is the final installment of my analysis of looking at creating your own leadership style. Today I will look at the final positive and negative impacts for creating your own style. There are many styles of leadership but designing and creating your own has some benefits it also will have some drawbacks.

Here is a positive impact.

·         You can pick and choose which parts of other leadership styles you want to use.

Anytime you can pick and choose the best parts of different leadership styles and make them your own will make for a fun and unique style. It isn’t too difficult to spot parts of styles that you determine fit your skills and interests. In fact that is what makes creating your own style fun.

Here is a negative impact.

·         You might miss an opportunity – because you are limiting yourself you may miss a greater leadership opportunity.

By picking and choosing bits and pieces of your style you might overlook a very important aspect of a particular style. If this happens you might find yourself missing golden opportunities to grow as a leader. You want to make sure you are looking at everything even if it doesn’t seem like it fits it might be a good match or compliment one of your strengths then you will become a stronger leader.

Opportunity knocks so don’t narrow your focus to your skills but look for ways to grow as a leader and challenge yourself with other parts of the leadership styles. Lead on!