What’s your Leadership Styles?
Every leader leads with one style most often. Know it, and you know how to unlock potential.
A PRADCO Leadership Assessment is a behavioral assessment. Instead of labeling personality, it measures how a person actually acts on the job, so you can compare leadership candidates fairly and develop the leaders you already have with a shared language.
PRADCO Leadership Styles turns a leader’s Quick View™ Leadership II results into a picture they can remember and use the next day. It shows how they lead most often, what that unlocks for their team, and what gets locked when the style is overused.
How is a leadership style measured?
Leadership Styles are built on behaviors, not personality labels. Each style comes from 40 observable leadership behaviors measured by the Quick View™️ Leadership II.
The assessment takes about 20 to 30 minutes. Leaders choose between two positive behaviors many times, picking the one that best describes how they act on the job. Because every option is positive, the forced-choice format shows where a leader puts emphasis rather than what they think sounds best.
The 4 leadership styles, at a glance
The four styles sit on a grid. Each one brings strengths a team needs, and each has a cost when it’s overused.
Operational Leader
Transformational Leader
Collaborative Leader
Motivational Leader
Operational Leader
Structure, Follow-up, Driving Results, Resolving Conflict, Responsiveness
When stressed
“I’ll just do it myself.”
Growth opportunities
- Demonstrate appreciation
- Focus on relationships
- Improve persuasiveness
Transformational Leader
Decisive, Persuasive, Dominant, Delegation, Strategic
When stressed
“If I push harder, they’ll follow.”
Growth opportunities
- Show empathy and concern
- Solicit input for buy-in
- Be more adaptable
Collaborative Leader
Versatility, Flexibility, Judgment, Cooperation, Participative
When stressed
“Let’s talk more before we decide.”
Growth opportunities
- Be willing to challenge
- Focus on outcomes
- Resolve conflict directly
Motivational Leader
Empathy, Motivating Others, Relating to Others, Compassion, Communicative
When stressed
“Let’s change direction.”
Growth opportunities
- Set parameters for decisions
- Focus on accountability
- Speak directly and concisely
What does the Leadership Styles report show?
The report gives each leader a clear view of how they lead and how it lands with others:
Your results place you on a grid with one style in each corner. A plot near the center means higher versatility where the leader leans toward neighboring styles and adapts to their preferences easily. A plot in an outer corner means a stronger tendency toward one style, so adapting to others takes more intention.
The behaviors the leader relies on most, and what each one makes possible. An Operational Leader provides structure to keep commitments on track and keeps issues from festering. Leaders see what to keep doing and why it works.
Practical areas to work on, starting the next day. An Operational Leader can focus on broadening communication for buy-in and balancing compassion with accountability.
What the style unlocks for the team when it’s working well. An Operational Leader assigns clear owners and dates to bring clarity to their teams to drive results.
What gets locked when the style goes too far. An Operational Leader may stifle engagement with too much process, create bottlenecks by doing work themselves, and get compliance without full commitment.
Short descriptions that help leaders understand how they lead and how they could adapt their leadership behaviors to be more effective.
Learn how to use Leadership Styles and Quick View™ Leadership II together in a coaching session.
Current clients on TalentScan continue to receive their QVL II report in addition to the Leadership Styles report. Looking at a leader’s next step? See the Leadership Readiness Report.
How do teams use leadership styles?
Better leaders build better teams. When leaders understand the other styles, they can see different motivations, adapt their approach, and work through conflict before it turns into misunderstanding.
PRADCO can train whole teams on Leadership Styles, so everyone shares the same language for how they lead and work together. Individual leaders can also work through their results with PRADCO coaching. To talk about team training, request your sample report and select “Yes” when asked if you’d like a consultation.
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