Directive leadership is employed when you want to sustain momentum in your organization. Directive leaders employ very specific tools in order to get the results they need. It’s not the only way or the best way to keep momentum moving, but it certainly has a long history and it has been employed both successfully and unsuccessfully.
Here are 10 signs you are a directive leader:
1. You prefer to go full steam ahead: As a directive leader you have a set of goals and a concrete plan. You will rarely allow the goals or the plan to be openly or routinely questioned once they are in place.
2. You do it by the numbers: You will make sure that every task you work toward is by the book or has worked before.
3. You think that people aren’t motivated: As a directive leader you assume that your subordinates are not self-motivated and are too comfortable with inertia and uncertainty.
