High on the Directive end and Low on the supporting end = Director.
High on the Directive end and High on the supporting end = Coach.
Low on the Directive end and High on the supporting end = Supporter.
Low on the Directive end and Low on the supporting end = Delegater.
I feel as if my leadership style is similar to a Coach or Supporter. Because I am a relationship-oriented leader, I have a high supporting end, and depending on the situation, I can be high or low on the task-oriented side.
I can recall a specific incident in my life where one of my other past employers showed her Director skills. When I first stared working at the job, she was very directive in the way she would tell me to do certain tasks. As long as I got my work done, she was happy. With this, however, she was never very supportive what was going on in my personal life. Because of this leadership style, I never felt connected to her on any level. Then one day, an emergency arose in my personal life and I had to come into work all shaken up. I was too scared to ask my boss if I could go home because I didn't think she would be supportive enough. After talking to my other co-workers, and receiving encouragement from them, I worked up the courage to talk to my manager. It was at this point that I saw her move from the Directing side of the model to Coaching/Supporting side. I feel that this situation "matched" the model for my manager in that it provided a good generalization of who she is in the workplace. However, I felt that it was also "mismatched" in the sense that it gives a false idea of who she might really be. She might naturally be a coach/supporter (high on the supporting scale) but in work situations, she came off as being someone that didn't care about her employees beyond the tasks they were to perform.
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