Posture 1 - The Curious Leader

The 5 Leadership Postures are a way of understanding the leadership development journey.

You’ll see attributes of the 5 Postures in yourself and others.

What kinds of leadership attributes are required now for your organisation?

What kind of leader are you?

What kind of leader do you need to be to help your organisation grow?

There are different leadership postures required at different stages of the leadership growth curve. It is important to use these leadership styles as a way of sharpening your focus on how to improve yourself.

Only then can you improve others.

Waymaker’s 5 Leadership Postures are:

The Curious Leader is the first of our 5 leadership postures. This type of leader discovers new ideas and finds problems to solve. This leadership posture is most important at the ideation stage of your business. This is the startup phase, where leaders are learning to lead themselves.

The reward for this stage of discovery is the chance to explore new opportunities. This is where you begin to find a niche – a unique solution to a valuable problem worth solving.

The risk for this type of leader is staying too long. It’s ok to dream, but at some point, you need to commit to moving forward. Failure to commit will lead to unpredictability, and you may find yourself constantly pivoting from one idea to the next.

However, if you succeed in this growth stage and learn this posture well, you will become a great listener, be self-disciplined, master the art of research, and have developed strong ideation skills.

These skills and personal leadership systems will be foundational to your leadership journey.