My Personal Leadership Style

Personal Philosophy

After completing the leadership inventory, I came to find that I had equal amounts of each of the four leadership styles. Personally, I thought my primary leadership style was analytical and my secondary leadership style was supportive. I did not see myself as being directive or adaptive, so I was surprised at the results. By having equal amounts of all four leadership styles, I will be able to use all the different characteristics of these leadership styles to aid in my success as a teacher. In the Wolfgang and Glickman behavior model, I feel that I fall under the descriptions of an interventionist. According to Tauber, “interventionists believe that children develop according to environmental conditions. A teacher’s …show more content…
After reading through the descriptions of an analytic, I thought most of the descriptions fit me. Some of the strengths of an analytic that I feel fit me include thoroughly examining and studying needs and situations, wanting to get the best or right answer, and likes working with the tried and true, and getting the most out of what already exists. As an analytic, having the right answer, structure and routine, security, and logic motivates me. When in conflict, the analytic is usually objective, logical and tends to be cool and distant. Out of the other three leadership styles, I thought that my secondary leadership style was supportive. I have always seen myself as a supportive and responsive person, so I had no doubt that I would fall into the supportive style of leadership. As a supportive leader, I like to be an achiever, do something that benefits people, am willing to do whatever it takes to get the task done, allows others to feel important in determining the direction of what’s happening, and have high ideals and wants to do an excellent job. My strengths include being helpful, responsive, cooperative, thoughtful, trusting, loyal, and seek excellence. My overused strengths, in which I highly believe to be true, include being obligated, overprotective, and a perfectionist. One weakness that I feel I have as a supportive leader is being too easily influenced in conflict situations. For the past two years, I have been working on staff with the Kenton Ridge Marching Band. During band camp this past August, I had a couple kids arguing with me because they did not want to do as many push-ups as I asked them to do for being late. The students suggested a smaller number of push-ups that they could do and I always gave in because I felt bad. This clearly shows how influenced I