Interactive leadership styles “iLead-Styles” among school leaders / Goh Kok Ming

Leadership has become essential for successful change in any organization facing contentious global competitiveness. It is very important to understand what type of leadership styles school leaders exhibit. A leadership assessment will inform one about what kind of person he or she is. It is a critical factor in the journey to becoming a better leader. Self-awareness of one’s personal qualities and leadership skills can exponentially improve how he or she leads an organization and deals with others. Learning more about himself can increase leadership effectiveness. Leaders will gain the team members' support and trust if they honestly assess their leadership capabilities. As a result, it will boost their credibility. However, there are many different leadership-style inventories out there. On the contrary, most of them could be more interactive and thought-provoking for the leaders based on the market analysis findings. Most inventories do not create self-conflict among leaders based on their pre-existing and perceived thoughts. Thus, this thought-provoking interactive Lead-Styles challenges learners to explore their perceived and actual leadership styles and strengthens their beliefs if the results are aligned with their thoughts. A survey was done to test the practicality of the style. The findings show that 90% of the leaders found that ‘iLead-Styles’ creates self-conflict for them to know more about their leadership styles, and 85% of the community found that it helps them to explore more about their leadership styles and it is very interactive.