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We examined the relations among leadership styles (telling, selling, participating, and delegating), personality preferences (extravertintrovert, sensing-intuitive, feeling-thinking, and judging-perceiving), and effectiveness as a consultant teacher. The sample consisted of 31 consultant teachers. Three instruments were administered: The LEAD-Self (Hersey & Blanchard, 1973), the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Briggs Myers, 1976), and the Survey of Effectiveness of Collaborative Consultants (West & Cannon, 1987). The raw scores indicated that selling and participating were the two leadership styles most often used by the consultant teachers. No significant relations were found between the consultant teachers' effectiveness scores and any of the leadership styles. The significant relation found was between personality index preference and effectiveness in consulting. Sensing was a significant variable when effectiveness was considered. Together, the extravert and the sensing scores were good predictors of effectiveness.
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