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.
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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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