PeopleSmart in Business eBook - The Platinum Rule

Chapter 6
Leadership Styles
Making this chapter meaningful to you
Picture a Dominant Director, Interacting Socializer, Steady Relater, and
Cautious Th inker who manage you or whom you manage. As you read,
bear in mind each of these particular people and specify what you can
do to improve your relationships with them. Focus on each one’s more
productive traits as well as each one’s less productive characteristics.
Th e essence of this leadership chapter is that all people have their own
natural, preferred way, of doing things, including exerting infl uence over
people and/or managing tasks or organizations. In this respect, Dominant
Directors are the most observably directive in their style of leadership.
On the other hand, Interacting Socializers are the most naturally
supportive in the way they go about their eff orts to infl uence others and
manage situations.
By contrast, the remaining two behavioral types are more introverted
by nature and less easily identifi able in their leadership practices. Steady
Relaters are more like supportive Interacting Socializers. But Steady Relaters
are secondarily concerned with being supportive to provide the
expected service or accomplish the identifi ed result. And fi nally, Cautious
Th inkers are more similar to self-determined Dominant Directors.
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