Our thinking style is the way we have learned to live our lives in a way that helps us to get what we want and feel good about who we are. We have learned it through a lifetime of trial and error so that it has become our default behavior.

This session helps identify that default behavior as a brain process that integrates both rational conscious thought and emotional subconscious experience as we have learned to use them. The result is our style. Or as some express it, “As I think, so I am.” Perhaps a more accurate statement is “As I have learned to think, so I have learned to be.”

For purposes of this session, the presumption is we have learned to be a certain style of leader. We first establish each participant’s thinking style through a brief assessment and graph it. Then, we survey the eleven possible leadership patterns and discuss the strengths and challenges of each. As part of the discussion, we will consider how these patterns support each other as well as where points of contention between them can arise.