Leadership styles Your natural preference
A structural diagnostic of your default leadership style across six research-backed modes. There are no right answers, only the ones you would actually take.
Most leaders have a natural style they default to under pressure. Knowing what yours is, and when it serves you versus when it gets in the way, is the foundation of building real range as a leader.
This analyser maps your responses across six distinct leadership styles and compiles a personalised profile.
Instruction. Answer each scenario based on what you would actually do in the moment, not what you think a good leader should do. The honest answer produces the useful report.
Leadership profile Your natural preference
Compiled from your responses across 18 operational scenarios.
Directive
Six styles Ranked as you use them
Other styles in your profile
A note on What this means
This analyser measures your current default leadership style, based on how you responded in the moment across a range of real scenarios. It is a starting point, not a ceiling. Every leader has the capability to draw on all six styles. The most effective leaders are situationally aware, moving between styles deliberately based on what the moment and the person in front of them actually needs.
Your dominant style is not a flaw or a virtue. It is simply where you naturally tend to land. The value is in knowing that, understanding when it serves you, and building the range to lead differently when it does not.
Based on Daniel Goleman, Leadership That Gets Results, Harvard Business Review, 2000.