What's Your Leadership Style? Quiz

1. A new advertising campaign is being created for your new product launch. Do you:

Keep a look out for it in the press

Ask to sign off on it before it goes live

Choose one of the three favourite options

Be at the meetings to help decide copy, colors, style

2. You have a great new idea for a new product. Do you:

Tell your team what the idea is, what they need to do, how they do it and by when

Tell your team the idea, then let them implement it.

Discuss your idea with the team to see if it can work and ask them to improve on the idea before proceeding.

3. Before committing time and money resources for developing a new product, our gut reaction is to:

Carry out lots of market research, buy all relevant reports, look a market conditions, analyse what the competition is doing etc.

Go with your gut feel and start straight away. You are 100% sure you know what the market needs now and in the future.

Float the idea with the team to improve on it before moving ahead.

4. Who do you consider the most important to your business?

Customers

Shareholders

Employees

5. You have 50 Lakh extra to spend on a product line. Do you spend it on:

Marketing

R&D / Research

Customer Service

Rewarding Staff

6. You need some PR for your new product launch. Do you:

Call your VP marketing to find out which PR agency is handling the launch and get an overview of the activity.

Plan a PR stunt yourself that will put you in the middle of the coverage.

Tell your marketing department what they need to do

7. In a company meeting do you prefer your employees to:

Give a short presentation to explain progress and results as well as plans. You would also expect a report to be given to you at the end of the meeting.

Meet them over coffee and just talk through what’s going on with no presentations or reports.

Only talk if they have something to add. In fact, only a very few people should be in the meeting. Only the really important people.

8. Would you consider yourself to be a big risk taker, medium risk taker or are low risk strategies best?

High risk taker

Medium risk taker

Low risk taker

9. Do you make all the company's big decisions alone or do you expect your management team to be involved with the decision making process?

I make all big decisions alone

I expect my management team to be involved with decisions

I am a slave to the shareholders. They make all decisions

10. Do you think your employees will perform best when:

They are praised and consulted with and they decide the way forward

They are forced to do what you tell them to do. I tell them, they do it. No arguments.