Quiz: What's Your Leadership Style?

Executives behave and display a certain style when they are conscious of their role and play in public the role of the CEO, CFO, or the CIO for that matter. Do you have the leadership style of a CIO? Do you have what it takes to become a CEO of a high-tech company?

Korn/Ferry International, the world's largest executive search firm and leadership solutions provider, has identified four key Leadership Styles among all executives: the Task-Oriented Style, the Social Style, the Intellectual Style and the Participative Style. Our data indicates that successful executives in different positions exhibit different combinations of these styles. To find out your primary and secondary leadership styles, answer the following 14 questions. You can also compare yourself with a typical CIO and CEO profiles as well as get information about other leadership dimensions such as your Thinking Style!

How accurate are each of the following statements in describing you? Responses to ALL these questions are required.

You prefer situations where you must focus on getting one thing done at a time.

Highly inaccurate

Highly Accurate

You work very well when it is important to make people feel comfortable and appreciated.

Highly inaccurate

Highly Accurate

You prefer to work on problems where you are called upon to carefully evaluate a number of potential solutions and then identify the best possible course of action.

Highly inaccurate

Highly Accurate

You perform very well when there is a need to work with a highly cooperative, high-performing team.

Highly inaccurate

Highly Accurate

You work very well when there is a need to keep things running smoothly and efficiently.

Highly inaccurate

Highly Accurate

You prefer to work on problems where you can choose from a wide range of options and there are no clear right or wrong choices.

Highly inaccurate

Highly Accurate

You work very well when there is a need to use your knowledge and expertise to generate plans for handling complex and challenging problems.

Highly inaccurate

Highly Accurate

You prefer situations where there is an opportunity to generate a creative or innovative solution for a new type of problem that has just begun to emerge.

Highly inaccurate

Highly Accurate

Please indicate the extent to which you prefer Choice A or Choice B in each of the following pairs as descriptive of the image you would like others to have of you. Responses to ALL these questions are required.

	Strongly Prefer A Strongly Prefer B
Dependable, direct and straightforward with your views and expectations.		Friendly and agreeable; open to others' ideas and points of view..
Well informed, knowledgeable and intelligent; committed to excellence.		Dependable, direct and straightforward with your views and expectations.
Dependable, direct and straightforward with your views and expectations.		A creative thinker; patient and cooperative in dealing with others.
Friendly and agreeable; open to others' ideas and points of view.		Well informed, knowledgeable and intelligent; committed to excellence.
A creative thinker; patient and cooperative in dealing with others.		Friendly and agreeable; open to others' ideas and points of view.
Well informed, knowledgeable and intelligent; committed to excellence.		A creative thinker; patient and cooperative in dealing with others.

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