It is interesting that the Wikipedia entry on “Leadership” begins with the statement that “defining...
Our Research Indicates At Least 93% of Leaders Have Significant Upside Potential.
The purpose of most leadership improvement efforts is to increase effectiveness. Many of those efforts start with the personality of the leaders. While important, personality is a poor predictor of leadership outcomes. Our recent research sought to find patterns beyond personality that better predict performance. It did that - and also revealed targeted development areas for each of 4 leadership patterns.
Using our PRO-daptive® Leadership model we demonstrate how leaders need to respond to two broad types of conditions to sustain organizational success and satisfaction. The first type, Favorable conditions and situations, tend to be characterized by situations with positive results, outcomes, and relationships. The second type, Unfavorable situations, tend to be characterized by situations with negative results, failure, poor morale, dissatisfaction, and low levels of commitment. Leaders need to be highly effective and adaptable to respond to these changing situations. This yields four possible patterns of leadership effectiveness:
1. Effective in Favorable conditions or situations, but not in Unfavorable ones.
2. Effective in Unfavorable conditions or situations, but not in Favorable ones.
3. Effective in both Favorable and Unfavorable conditions or situations.
4. Ineffective in both Favorable and Unfavorable conditions or situations.
We recently analyzed the data from several hundred leaders who had completed our PRO-daptive® Leadership Inventory. They responded to 20 scenarios characterized by different types of favorable and unfavorable situations. By looking at higher versus lower performance responses for each of these areas we were able to identify four common leadership patterns.
