Leadership Self Analysis
Leadership Self-Analysis
As per MSMQ assessment my dominant leadership styles are "Coaching", "Coercive", and "Affiliative" and my least preferred styles are “Pacesetting”, “Visionary” and “Democratic” in that order. I expected to see myself high on coaching as I use that style a lot at my work, hence I was not surprised to see that as my most dominant style in self-assessment. I did not expect to see my coercive style usage to be high and visionary style usage to be low. In fact, I was under the impression that I am more authoritative than coercive. I try to set vision for the team and make lot of effort to involve people in my decisions. I would need to observe myself if I instead of setting vision for the team, am becoming too directive and task oriented. Also, Initially I was also surprised to find myself mid-high on affiliative style as I am not a very social person. However looking deeper into the style I did realize that I am generally very friendly with team members and always care about their emotional needs and promote interactions within team. Based on this I feel this assessment accurately captured my style usage as mid-high. I did expect my pacesetting and democratic style usage to be low as I do not use them a lot. Based on this profile I see myself having strengths in using coaching and affiliative style often and limiting my use of pacesetting style. However I still have to work on reducing my use of coercive style and increasing my use of visionary style. If I am able to overcome these 2 weaknesses I feel I would be very close to ideal leadership style of using good mix of authoritative, coaching, affiliative and democratic styles.
Two months back I had to create plan for our 1 month sprint for the team. My team has 6 people reporting to me. Most of them are very junior and with little experience. I had 2-3 days to finish the whole exercise in which I had to figure out deliverables and work assignments for team members. Primary criteria for
As per MSMQ assessment my dominant leadership styles are "Coaching", "Coercive", and "Affiliative" and my least preferred styles are “Pacesetting”, “Visionary” and “Democratic” in that order. I expected to see myself high on coaching as I use that style a lot at my work, hence I was not surprised to see that as my most dominant style in self-assessment. I did not expect to see my coercive style usage to be high and visionary style usage to be low. In fact, I was under the impression that I am more authoritative than coercive. I try to set vision for the team and make lot of effort to involve people in my decisions. I would need to observe myself if I instead of setting vision for the team, am becoming too directive and task oriented. Also, Initially I was also surprised to find myself mid-high on affiliative style as I am not a very social person. However looking deeper into the style I did realize that I am generally very friendly with team members and always care about their emotional needs and promote interactions within team. Based on this I feel this assessment accurately captured my style usage as mid-high. I did expect my pacesetting and democratic style usage to be low as I do not use them a lot. Based on this profile I see myself having strengths in using coaching and affiliative style often and limiting my use of pacesetting style. However I still have to work on reducing my use of coercive style and increasing my use of visionary style. If I am able to overcome these 2 weaknesses I feel I would be very close to ideal leadership style of using good mix of authoritative, coaching, affiliative and democratic styles.
Two months back I had to create plan for our 1 month sprint for the team. My team has 6 people reporting to me. Most of them are very junior and with little experience. I had 2-3 days to finish the whole exercise in which I had to figure out deliverables and work assignments for team members. Primary criteria for