All leaders have a style bias, that is the style we naturally default too which can be referred to as your dominant style. This is often the dominant style we have seen modelled by leaders close to us like our parents or leaders we have looked up to in the past like a manager under whom we grew. Daniel Goleman's research on Leadership resulted in defining six different styles of leadership, see the end of this blog post, from which we have a natural dominant one. However wha