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Modern leaders (re)know the drives of others and adapt their style accordingly.
There is no such thing as the best way to lead.Leadership is about instructing, motivating and correcting people in an effective way. And a way becomes effective when it connects with the person being led.
The nice thing is that with each drive comes its own style of negative behavior. You can tell from the negative behavior which drives are dominant.
Those who grumble that they are “now only going to do what's in the job description” reveal their blue drive; those who proceed to gossip and blackball reveal a green drive.
The figure below shows the positive and negative behaviors associated with RealDrives' six drives:
Part of the RealDrives reports focused on leadership is the team dashboard. The team dashboard is intended to assess whether a group needs guidance, and if so, on which themes. In the middle is the team pattern, showing what the group's natural drives are.
Depending on what drives them, you can direct, stimulate and activate people in different ways.
Those with strong feeling drives (green/purple) are prone to people management. This style works personally, leveraging social pressure and team pressure. Emphasizes things like cooperation, team spirit and shared ideals. “Come on, we have to do this for each other!”
Those with strong ego drives are prone to management by objectives: a style of management in which goals are formulated, and preferably the benefits of achieving them. This style works individually, leaving room for individual interpretation: exactly how the goal is achieved is less important. “This is your goal, go for it!”
Those with strong rational drives are amenable to guidance based on analysis and logic: the facts are looked at analytically, and a logically sound approach is formulated on that basis. “These are the facts, so this is the logical thing to do!”
