The Expressive-style person.
Enthusiasm, adaptability, and fast pace are seen as key characteristics of the Expressive style. The Expressive-style person appears to be engaged, future-focused, a holistic thinker, a motivator of others, and direct and open regardless of the situation.
Assertive, outspoken, opinionated
Expressive-style behavior is perceived as assertive, outspoken and resourceful: an intuitive person who will usually emphasize interaction and involvement with others when working toward a goal.
High intensity, high impact
Expressive-style people thrive in a lively and stimulating work environment. They tend to gravitate toward ambitious and highly visible projects. People generally respond well to their outgoing and socially active approach toward any project they undertake. They can become dramatic and may play to the crowd a bit too often. The Expressive style is a high impact style that usually elicits an intense response from most people.
Energetic, resourceful, creative
Expressive leadership style is characterized as energetic, resourceful and creative. Expressive-style people are highly engaging in rallying colleagues to support an idea or task. They are supportive and collaborative, particularly when goals match their vision. Masterful at making connections between events, people, and situations, they communicate insights quickly and passionately. Expressive-style people can however easily lose interest in a project if it no longer appeals to them or when it no longer puts them in the limelight.
High visibility, no routine
Expressive leadership is premised on vision and persuasion rather than on position, power, or tight controls. Optimism, visibility, and approachability are important aspects of the Expressive leadership style, which can make them highly effective leaders. However, quite frequently, in order to gain recognition and advancement, Expressive people primarily focus on highly visible tasks to the detriment of important day-to-day routine work .
Impatient
The energy, optimism, visibility and creativity of Expressive people are certainly to be considered as positive behavior traits. Expressive people may however be perceived as impatient, aggressive, and unreasonable when under pressure, especially when others do not follow them, or go against their vision and ideas.
