Leadership
Development

Elevate Your Leadership: A Strategic Approach

Understanding Your Leadership Potential

  • Enhance Your Leadership Skills: We will explore various personality and skill-based assessments, such as: Myers-Briggs, CliftonStrengths StrengthsFinder, Human Design, etc. We will work to develop critical skills such as strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, effective communication, and team building through the lens of your specific results by leaning into your strengths and working with your “weaknesses”—AKA your opportunities for growth.

  • Improve Your Decision-Making: Learn to trust your judgment and synthesis of options.

  • Build Stronger Relationships: Learn how to foster trust, collaboration, and respect among your team members with differing personality types.

  • Drive Organizational Success: Inspire and motivate your team to achieve outstanding results.

What kind Of Leader Do You Aspire To Be?

Understanding the culture that a firm’s leadership is nurturing is imperative for its leadership development program to ensure that the organization is promoting leadership behaviors that are aligned with the firm’s values and strategy. Srivastava (2022) identifies seven leadership styles, included below. Each style can be dialed up, down, or combined to land on an effective style of leadership. 

  1. Autocratic leader: This type of leader hoards control, makes every decision, and takes very little input from group members. Autocratic leaders can be effective in situations where quick and decisive decision making is needed but can also lead to decreased motivation and job satisfaction among team members (Lewin et al., 1939).

  2. Bureaucratic leader: On the other extreme from the autocratic leader, the bureaucratic leader relies on rules and procedures to lead by the book. These leaders establish a clear hierarchy and chain of command. This leadership style tends to prioritize efficiency and accuracy over innovation and flexibility (Jung & Avolio, 2000).

  3. Charismatic leader: This type of leader is a people person who inspires others by building interpersonal relationships. Charismatic leadership can lead to improved performance and satisfaction among team members (Conger & Kanungo, 1987).

  4. Servant leader: This leader prioritizes the greater good of their team over their own objectives. The focus for this leader is on creating a supportive and empowering environment (Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, n.d.).

  5. Situational leader: This leadership style is rooted in achieving the leader’s goals in the context of a given situation by adapting to the followers’ level of maturity (Hersey & Blanchard, 1982). It doesn’t necessarily reinforce organizational values except, perhaps, expedient results. This style emphasizes the need for leaders to adapt their leadership style to suit the situation and the needs of their team members. 

  6. Transactional leader: Transactional leaders rely on rewards and punishments to motivate team members (Bass & Avolio, 1994). Organizations that value competition among team members could benefit from transactional leadership in such contexts (Hamstra et al., 2014).

  7. Transformational leader: Transformational leaders inspire and motivate their teams to achieve a shared vision and are often seen as role models by their team members. Research suggests that transformational leadership can lead to improved performance, satisfaction, and commitment among team members (Bass & Avolio, 1990).

Source: Roy, M. (n.d.). Leadership Development for Professional Services Firms. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). https://www.siop.org/Research-Publications/Items-of-Interest/ArtMID/19366/ArticleID/7713/Leadership-Development-for-Professional-Services-Firms