DISCOVERING AND DEVELOPING YOUR OWN
LEADERSHIP STYLEExcerpts from “Courageous Leadership”,
by
Bill Hybels
LEADERSHIP STYLE
• 10 different leadership styles
• Which leadership style best describes you?
VISIONARY LEADER
• Clear picture of the goal or vision
• Tireless effort to achieve goal
• Spread the vision, and work, to others
• Accomplish the goal or die trying.
Jim Bakker
DIRECTIONAL LEADER
• God given ability to make the right choices
• Works behind the scenes
• Helps choose the right path at critical intersections
STRAGETIC LEADER
• Vision
• Breaks it down into achievable steps
• Forms a game plan and follows it
• Pays attention to small detail
• Directs others in achieving success
MANAGING LEADER
• Organizes people, processes, and resources to achieve goal
• Ability to motivate the team
• Always presents the goal to the team
MOTIVATIONAL LEADER
• The ability to keep the team “fired up”
• Knows their team’s strengths and weaknesses
• Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. – Tom Landry
Joshua L. Chamberlain
SHEPHERDING LEADER
• Receives the vision
• Chooses the team carefully…no time limit
• Shows love to each individual member
• Nurtures, gently and consistently
• Listens patiently
• Prays diligently for each member
Jesus
TEAM BULIDING LEADER
• Builds a team through discernment
• Puts chosen people in the right job
• Encourages and develops each one
ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADER
• Regularly have new goals
• Start a project by organizing, populating, and pointing the team in the correct direction
• Moves to the next goal or project
REENGINEERING LEADER
• Takes on the challenge of turning around a troubled situation.
• I get to “fix” things…..O happy day!!!!
• Reorganizes the team
• Encourages the team….There are no problems, only situations that demand our immediate attention
• Prods the team into action
BRIDGE BUILDING LEADER
• Brings together a wide range of constituent groups together for a single mission
• A diplomat with God given ability to compromise and negotiate
• Delegates responsibility to team leaders• Never get overwhelmed• Listens to team leaders and makes decisions
based on their input and God’s approval
Four aspects of courageous leadership
• MORAL COURAGE - Doing the right thing
• SELFLESS COURAGE – Put others before yourself
• INTELLECTUAL COURAGE – Solutions may require thinking “outside of the box”
• EXECUTION COURAGE – Size up a situation and act quickly and decisively.
DISCUSSION
• Do you believe that you are a leader?
Why or Why not………
. Which leadership style best describes you?