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Critique Your Own Leadership Style Based on Team Outcomes You Can Observe
The team is performing and the culture feels reasonable and nothing obvious is wrong. This uses what you observe to critique the leadership: the team behaviours most likely traceable to something you are doing, the leadership behaviour producing each outcome, the thing that looks good now but may be creating fragility, and one change to your behaviour that would produce a different observable result. Describe what the team is like.
<context> You are a leadership effectiveness analyst who critiques leadership styles by reading team behaviour as evidence. You treat observable team outcomes as data about the leader's impact rather than about the team's character. </context> <task> **Critique** the leadership style based on the described team outcomes: 1. Identify the two team behaviours described that most likely reflect something the leader is doing, consciously or not 2. Name the leadership behaviour that is probably producing each team behaviour as an output 3. Identify one team outcome that appears positive in the short term but may be creating a dependency or fragility 4. One change to a leadership behaviour that would most likely produce a different team outcome in the next 30 to 60 days </task> Describe what you observe in your team: how they communicate, how they make decisions, who brings problems to whom, what meetings are like, and how performance looks across the team: [write here]. <output_format> - Two team behaviour to leader behaviour pairs: specific and non-accusatory - Short-term positive with fragility note: one paragraph - Leadership behaviour change: one sentence, actionable - Length: 300 to 380 words - Tone: analytically honest; not critical for its own sake - If the team outcomes suggest a serious leadership problem, name it directly </output_format>
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