The 4 Types of Leadership Styles Part 1: The Pragmatist Leadership Style | Leadership IQ

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THE 4 TYPES OF LEADERSHIP STYLES
Now that you have your personal leadership styles results, let's dig deeper into each of the four fundamental leadership styles: Pragmatist, Idealist, Steward and Diplomat.

Here's a quick overview of the 4 types of leadership styles:

Pragmatists are driven, competitive, and they value hitting their goals above all else.

Idealists want to learn and grow, and they want everyone else on the team to do the same.

Stewards are dependable, loyal and helpful, and they provide a stabilizing and calming force for their team members.

Diplomats are the affiliative force that keeps groups together and typically build deep personal bonds with their employees.

Remember that leaders can be effective or ineffective within each of these four styles, and there are a million subtle variations, but these four leadership styles give us a way to pinpoint some major philosophical differences between leaders.

Now let's take a deeper dive...

THE PRAGMATIST LEADERSHIP STYLE

Pragmatists have high standards, and they expect themselves, and their team members, to meet those standards.

Pragmatists are driven, competitive, and they value hitting their goals above all else.

They can be bold thinkers, unafraid of visionary leadership, even when others feel anxious).

They are also hard-driving and often enjoy smashing through obstacles.
Pragmatists rate very high on Challenge, moderately high on Directiveness and Structure, and much lower on Feeling.

Working for Pragmatists can be difficult but rewarding.

The job is not for the faint-of-heart or thin-skinned, but the opportunities to learn and become expert under the Pragmatist's tutelage are second-to-none.

The job can sometimes feel like an apprenticeship to a master artist or professor.

Unlike a laissez faire leader, this leadership style pushes people group members to develop BOTH their strengths and weaknesses.

This offers the potential for exceptional intellectual growth, but also for burnout and criticism.

Their leadership skills provide a great situation for the right individuals, but employees who work for Pragmatists may find that bottom-line results can sometimes outpace softer measures like employee engagement.

The Pragmatist style is the least common of all the leadership styles, accounting for around 8-12% of American leaders.

But, it's interesting to note that top-level executives have a higher percentage of Pragmatists than other groups, like Managers, Directors and Vice Presidents.

Based on my observations, I consider Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon) and Steve Jobs to be Pragmatists.