Leadership Effects — How to Achieve the Results You Want
As a leader, achieving certain effects with your team, such as trust, a sense of community, and high aspiration, among others, can be tricky. Many leadership models don’t help as they don’t clearly spell out what effect improving leadership behaviors (or traits in trait models) will achieve. If a leader wants to achieve a certain result with a team, the leader must carefully read the information on the leadership model to determine what to do.
This is not the case with the Six Domains of Leadership™ (SDL) model. The model clearly articulates what is the effect of behaviors in each domain. So, if a leader wanted the team to trust them, they would focus on Relational Leadership. If they wanted to be credible in the eyes of the team, they would focus on Personal Leadership, and so on.
The model represents the leadership effects outside of the pyramid as the image below shows, where Contextual Leadership and its corresponding effect, Community, are circled.
So the model makes it very clear that based on what the leader wants to achieve, they can identify the corresponding domain for that effect. The table below represents the same information as the pyramid above.
Note that a 7th row on the table, Overall Leadership, which has its own Leadership Effect, Loyalty. This is not a…
