The study hypothesized that team members would prefer personal power styles including expert, information, and referent over positional power styles such as legitimate, reward, and coercion. The study predicted that the strength of preference would increase with the danger of the situation and with the member's self-perceived skill level and that SWAT sergeants use more positional than personal power styles. The findings indicate that members show the same preference for positional as personal power when viewed categorically, but that, when viewed individually, they prefer information, coercion, legitimate, referent, reward, and expert styles respectively. As hypothesized, SWAT sergeants use more positional than personal power, but the gap between actual use and preferred use by SWAT members is not significant. 16 tables and 7 appendixes.