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?