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Make Your Weakness Strong


Today I am going to look at one more positive and one more negative about creating your own leadership style. It is important to note that all leaders don’t stick to one style and no leader is constricted to just one type of style. What I am looking at are those leaders who try to define and create their own leadership style. I identified three positives and three negatives to creating your own style. Yesterday I looked at one of each, today two more.
Here is a positive impact.
·         You can let your skill set and your leadership shine – Since you are defining your own leadership style you can focus on matching it to your skills.

Creating your own leadership style can help you to match your skill set with different aspects of leadership styles to help you become more impactful as a leader. It allows you to delegate tasks that you might not be good at thus allowing you to build the skills of those around you. It also can help you build up future leaders.
Here is a negative impact.
·         You can become too constricted – If you are only focusing on your skills and strengths you don’t have an opportunity to improve your weak areas and become a well rounded leader.

You can become too limited by only focusing on your strengths. It won’t give you an opportunity to grow as a leader. You will become stagnant in your leadership. Finding those weak areas and working on improving them will help you become a better leader. One of my daughters does competitive swimming. They have them work on all the strokes even though the butterfly is her weakness eventually working at it will help her improve it. That is what leaders need to do.
Focus on your strengths but improve your weaknesses and you will become a much better leader.
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