Leadership style

Milestone Activity 3: Take the leadership style quiz below and record your results. Write a summary about your leadership style and how it will affect your ability to lead effective change. What can you do to improve your ability to manage change? Take the quiz here: https://www(dot)atlassian(dot)com/blog/quiz/find-your-leadership-style-examples (Scroll down and look for "Take the Quiz") -BASED ON THIS QUIZ I GOT Bureaucratic Result Image Bureaucratic leader, you tend to prioritize rules, policy, and maintaining the status quo. You're happy to listen to employees, but often view new ideas as “too risky.” Other notable bureaucratic leaders: Principal Skinner (The Simpsons), Major Major Major Major (Catch-22) Bureaucratic leadership As the cousin of the autocratic style, bureaucratic leadership runs on rules, policy, and maintaining the status quo. The standard procedure always wins out. Proponents of this style will listen to employees and may even acknowledge their good ideas, but if those ideas don’t fit within the established system, they’ll never get the green light. Who has a bureaucratic leadership style? Though genuinely concerned about his students, Principal Skinner is seriously uptight and rarely does anything without the approval of his superiors. (Image courtesy of 20th Century Fox TV.) Where it falls short: Because bureaucratic leadership is always beholden to business as usual, innovation is often stifled. This style of leadership is rarely effective in today’s workplace, especially if you want to actually, y’know, stand out in a competitive marketplace. What to do now: The controlled environment you work in feels warm and cozy, but you can do your team (and yourself) a favor by venturing outside your comfort zone juuuuuuuuuust a bit. And that means *eep!* relinquishing some of that control, while still providing guardrails for your team. You may not be ready to let them go wild on a skunk-works project, but can you delegate more of the everyday decisions? Lend your support to a killer idea that happens to challenge the status quo? Check out these seven leadership secrets that can help you take your game from “ok” to “oh, wow!” https://www(dot)themuse(dot)com/advice/common-leadership-styles-with-pros-and-cons