Navigating Chaos: How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Situations

by Jeff Boss

Step 4: Adopt. Once you’ve detected the right leadership style to employ, adapted your mindset and behavior to that style, and effectively chosen to implement it into practice, it’s time to actually do it. Adopting a new leadership style into your repertoire allows you to call upon that style and its associated skills at any time and under any circumstance. The DACA approach can help you slow down your thought process and settle into the situation before diving in too deep. Take the time to let the situation unravel and then apply the right leadership style to the right situation. When an employee is raised in one particular light, he or she can’t help but see one way to solve problems because that’s all he or she knows. It can prove to be fatal, as the next vignette will show.