INVESTIGATING LEADERSHIP-STYLES, PERSONALITY PREFERENCES, AND EFFECTIVE TEACHER CONSULTATION

We examined the relations among leadership styles (telling, selling, p articipating, and delegating), personality preferences (extravert-intr overt, sensing-intuitive, feeling-thinking, and judging-perceiving), a nd effectiveness as a consultant teacher. The sample consisted of 31 c onsultant teachers. Three instruments were administered: The LEAD-Self (Hersey & Blanchard, 1973), the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Briggs M yers, 1976), and the Survey of Effectiveness of Collaborative Consulta nts (West & Cannon, 1987). The raw scores indicated that selling and p articipating were the two leadership styles most often used by the con sultant teachers. No significant relations were found between the cons ultant teachers' effectiveness scores and any of the leadership styles . The significant relation found was between personality index prefere nce and effectiveness in consulting. Sensing was a significant variabl e when effectiveness was considered. Together, the extravert and the s ensing scores were good predictors of effectiveness.