Communication Style -1 Strong connection between leadership and communication skills always admires me. Here is a simple example: a manager has to deal with many different people and he is supposed to find the correct approach to each of them in order to motivate the employees or persuade a boss. And that’s when communication style is important. Today I’m going to tell you about the book called “Leading the Leaders” by Ichak Adizes. Adizes divided all the leaders into 4 styles based on 4 functions and calls that PAEI system: P is for Producer, A for Administrator, E for Entrepreneur, I for Integrator. There are no specific instructions in the book on how to define your style however later on I found a PAEI test available online. Not like when you real a medical book and might apply all the illnesses and diseases to yourself, I managed to categorize myself to P (Producer) type based on my typical behavior patterns. I may say, I consider this book as my mentor, because thanks to reading that I managed to analyze my behavior, realize my mistakes at work place, find out alternative ways of dealing with work routine and get a room for improvement. Let me give some examples: As a P-type, I’m bad at delegating. I tend to accomplish most of the tasks by my own and rarely think of the consequences of such behavior. That doesn’t give an opportunity to my employees to grow, moreover if I don’t spend time explaining them on how to help me with some tasks – they could never help me as they have no skills and that means I could not delegate them. Here is another problem. Since I don’t delegate and am overloaded with some current tasks I may forget about strategic and global goals. It’s important to focus on your strategic goals as that may lead to the situations when some tactic goals and tasks won’t be relevant anymore. I might find some meetings boring (as I need to spend time on my current tasks as you may remember) and keep silent. However I have never thought how other managers may interpret my silence. As well I need to pay attention to the moments when other participants keep silent and try to understand the internal reasons of that.