Leadership Style Questionnaire (LSQ)

John has used the Leadership Style Questionnaire with over 200 managers and supervisors for 1) leadership development, 2) team development, 3) strategic culture and climate organizational change efforts. Developed by David Bradford and Allan Cohen, the Leadership Style Questionnaire is an excellent tool for helping people understand what leadership and management is, assess themselves, and make realistic leadership development action-plans.

The LSQ is a 35-item instrument divided into seven major categories of leadership competencies.

The LSQ is based on a theoretical framework of transitioning to a "post-heroic leadership" model. The Manager as Developer concept gets results and helps create fundamental shifts in the roles of superiors and subordinates. John uses the instrument to help show managers how to get their staffs to share responsibility as the manager for the way the work unit works. The following illustrates the shift illustrated in this leadership framework:

Heroic
Post Heroic
  • Superior subordinate mindset
  • Leader owns team, meetings, outcomes
  • Decisions by consultation
  • Contribute, but defer to leader, prejudices
  • Talk about company vision
  • Suppress conflict
  • Suppress interpersonal expression
  • Sr. Partner-Junior partner mindset
  • Members own team, meetings, outcomes
  • Key decisions by consensus
  • Contribute as a partner
  • Use vision at all levels
  • Unearth issues-related conflict, work it
  • Interpersonal expression legitimate

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