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Academy course 6 of 18 · 3 lessons · 11 min · video
Understanding Your Leadership Style
The four common styles, what each buys and costs you when you lead leaders, and your own default under pressure.
Your first five minutes
Your leadership style is a default, not an identity
Lesson 1 of 3 · 3:45 · Watch, listen or read
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Narrated by Andreas Pettersson. Built from the Leaders ADAPT library with Martha Spalding.
Your course, one useful move at a time.
- 1Your leadership style is a default, not an identity
The four common leadership styles, and why at VP and C-level your style is a choice, not who you are.3:45 - 2Transformational and servant: the styles people admire
What transformational and servant leadership really demand of an executive, and how each one quietly fails.3:46 - 3Democratic, autocratic, and finding your own default
When to open a decision to your team, when to make the call yourself, and how to find your own default style.3:52
All lessons are recorded.
How a lesson works
Each lesson is about five minutes, the slides with Andreas narrating, or audio only on your phone between meetings. It opens on one situation at the executive level, teaches one tool, and closes with your move: one thing to do before the next lesson. The full written lesson sits under the player, so you can read instead, or go back for the exact sentence you want to use.
Created and narrated by Andreas Pettersson. The narration uses an AI model of Andreas's own voice.