Positive Perception

(Focus on others and for their benefit)

Negative Perception

(Focus on self and for the benefit of self)

Type of Leadership

Leadership Behaviors

Alternate Perception of Leader

Alternate Interpretation of Leadership Behaviors

Telling

Directing

• To give a detailed account of; narrate

• To make known; reveal

• To inform positively; assure

• To give instructions to; direct

Autocrat

• A ruler having unlimited power; a despot

• A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant

• An oppressive, harsh, arbitrary person

Selling

Coaching

• To persuade another to recognize the worth or desirability of something

• To attract prospective buyers; be popular on the market

Patronizing

• To treat in a condescending manner

• Displaying a superior attitude

• Having and expressing the power to give favors or support

Participating

Supporting

• To share in something

• To partake together

• Peers

Manipulating

• To operate or control

• To influence or manage shrewdly or deviously

• Secret superior

Delegating

• A person authorized to act as another’s representative

• To commit or entrust a task or power to another

Abdicating

• To relinquish power or responsibility

• To no longer care; to separate oneself entirely