**Instructions**

Take the Sargent and Miller Leadership Scale and discuss your scores to complete this discussion. Give yourself one point for each answer that agrees with those in the following key:

**Key**

- If you answered "1" to items 1, 4, 8, 9, and 10, give yourself one point for each "1."
- If you answered "2" to items 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7, give yourself one point for each "2."

Add the summed scores from step 1 and step 2. This is your leadership style score. Scores closer to 0 indicate an autocratic style; scores closer to 10 indicate a democratic style.

**Sargent and Miller Leadership Scale**

We are interested in what is important to you when leading a group discussion. Several pairs of statements are listed below. Read each pair of statements and place a mark on the one you believe to be more important. Follow these ground rules:

- Place your check marks clearly and carefully.
- Do not omit any items.
- Never check both items.
- Do not look back and forth through the items; make each item a separate and independent judgment.
- Your first impression, the immediate feelings about the statements, is what we want.

**Statements**

1. To give everyone a chance to express his or her opinion.
2. To know what the group and its members are doing.
3. To assign members to tasks so more can be accomplished.
4. To let the members reach a decision all by themselves.
5. To know what the group and its members are doing.
6. To help the members see how the discussion is related to the purposes of the group.
7. To assist the group in getting along well together.
8. To help the group find what you think is their best answer.
9. To get the job done.
10. To let the members reach a decision all by themselves.
11. To know what the group and its members are doing.
12. To let the members reach a decision all by themselves.
13. To get the job done.
14. To assist the group in getting along well together.
15. To help the members see how the discussion is related to the purposes of the group.
16. To assign members to tasks so more can be accomplished.
17. To ask questions that will cause members to do more thinking.
18. To get the job done.
19. To let the members reach a decision all by themselves.
20. To give new information when you feel the members are ready for it.

**Step 1:** In the discussion, answer the following questions:
1. What do you think about the scale?
2. Is it accurate?
3. Regardless of how you placed on the scale, what kind of leadership approach do you think would be the most effective for your group? Please justify all your answers.

**Step 2:** Respond to at least three people. Thoughtful responses may receive extra credit.