Analysis of Leadership Styles Data

The Teal Leadership Style indicator has been completed by many thousands of leaders all over the world. We have sampled two thousand of these surveys to try to deduce some conclusions about the nature of leadership within the church, and within secular organisations. Our key conclusions are below :

Of the five types of leadership style identified by the indicator, participants saw themselves most frequently as being strategists or encouragers. Around a third saw themselves as being pioneers, whilst fewer than 1 in 5 identified themselves as being managers or team leaders.

The sex of the leader does make a difference. Female leaders are much more likely to have the encourager leadership style than men, much less likely to have a pioneer leadership style and score broadly similarly on strategist, manager and team leader

Church Leaders are much more likely to be pioneers than Lay church members, slightly more likely to be encourager leaders than lay church members. On the other hand, Lay Christians are much more likely to be strategists than church leaders, and are slightly more likely to be team leaders. Those who are secular leaders are more likely to be managers and strategists (focusing on the how) and team leaders, than encouragers or pioneers.