Quiz Results
You’re a Shepherd
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What Does This Mean?
After gaining the trust of the sheep herd, the shepherd walks in front, leading the sheep in the desired direction. There is peace. The sheep are banded together and support each other. The shepherd sets the pace, the direction, provides what the sheep need to feel fulfilled, and protects them from danger.
It is a pleasant existence, but there is no power to be assertive, to be competitive, or aggressively reach goals. And, if the shepherd isn’t there, the sheep scatter. The business completely depends on the leader’s presence and leadership.
What Kind of Leader Is This?
You are a gracious leader/manager.
This kind of business owner is considerate to customers, clients and staff. Everyone depends on him or her for the success of their experience and wellbeing – even the existence of the business, itself. And, like the octopus leader and cattle dog leader, the people in the shepherd leader’s team also depend on the leader for assistance and direction.
However, unlike the other two scenarios, the team members in this business at least have initiative as well as the willingness and inclination to work together.
How Is This Affecting You and Your Business?
Culture is fairly healthy, yet there are consistent problems or weak areas that may have existed for years. Things are “good enough” that the organization doesn’t spend time addressing continued annoyances or problem areas. There is an ever-present since of “status quo.” Everyone seems secure as long as things stay the same.
However, whenever there is an unexpected threat or change (a wolf or coyote on the hill), everyone tends to fall apart until the leadership can get things back to normal again. In this kind of team there is often a subtle sense of entitlement, i.e, “Where is MY Christmas bonus?”
This kind of business is fairly successful, but improvements in a few weak areas would improve that success and make for smoother operations, greater productivity, and more profit.
Stop Being a Shepherd…
As a Shepherd Leader, you are undoubtedly affecting your team in ways you don’t intend. Research proves – as goes the leader, so goes the team.
But the good news about that is, YOU can change them. How? By simply adjusting how you lead. We never train people in doing MORE. Rather, we train business owners, leaders, and managers in how to do what they are already doing – differently. With better outcomes. MUCH better.
Check your email for an invitation to watch our free training that introduces you to the Truby Business Success Model – the secret to how 1000s of Business Owners, Leaders, and Managers are working LESS and succeeding MORE while also becoming the leader their team deserves.
You’ll learn a proven framework of training we’ve used to fix problem companies and teams – AND take successful ones to even greater success.
What Are The Other Three Types of Leaders?
Octopus Leader
As the leader of your business, you are acting like an octopus. And your employees/team members are acting as working arms or extensions of the head (you).
In truth, in a real octopus, there are neurons in the tentacles. But their entire “mindset” is to serve the head. And, if one of the staff members (aka tentacles) is severed, the head can grow another one, almost exactly like the previous one.
Cattle Dog Leader
Each of the cattle in the herd makes an individual contribution, and even tend to band together in one “team” – however, their direction is not clear. They need some force to drive them otherwise they would be content to eat the grass where they stand.
Enter – the cattle dogs. They are very efficient at getting the herd to collectively move in a desired direction, but they do so by nipping at everyone’s heals.
Air Traffic Control Leader
The “organization” is an entity in and of itself. There is no dependence on a leader for success. There is a clear structure, excellent information flow, and efficiency systems that work well regardless of who the Air Traffic Control (ATC) or pilots are. People fill roles – roles are not determined by people. Indeed, EVERY pilot has a clear role and specific responsibilities. And each work in an interdependent team dynamic for the good of the whole.
The ATC serves to facilitate, lead, guide, take requests and assess them based on the good of the whole, and get everyone safely to reach their achievement. That way, the entire organization consistently reaches a massive number of small goals, all working together toward the entire organization’s goal – safe landings.
This quiz is primarily for fun and not based on a scientific process. However, after multiple decades of interactions with leaders, we think you’ll find the results quite accurate. AND, it’s fun to compare notes with other leaders to see if you are talking to an Octopus, Cattle Dog, Shepherd, or Air Traffic Controller.
