Styles of LeadershipThe styles of leadership we apply are crucial to our success as managers or coaches. While we do use different styles of leadership in different situations, each one of us has a primary leadership style that is our default setting in most situations.
Each leadership style has its own
advantages and drawbacks and understanding your own leadership
style along
with the others can be vital in helping you to achieve success at work.
Recognizing different leadership styles can also help you when
dealing
with your
peers and supervisors.
Autocratic
Leadership – this is an extreme form of leadership where
the maximum power lies
with the leader and people are told what to do with little space to
express
their opinions. While most people resent this form of leadership it is
best
used for highly routine and unskilled jobs. Servant Leadership – when any non-leader in the team or organization regardless of level becomes the leader to achieve a task, he or she becomes a servant leader. This also allows for a more democratic decision-making process within the team.
Task
Oriented Leadership -
this is a great
leadership style to adopt when procedures, tasks and goals need to be
set into
place as a task-oriented leader will focus on getting the job done, he
may tend
to lose sight of his people’s needs though. Transactional Leadership – this is one of the leadership styles where team members get the least satisfaction. In this style they recognize that all the control lies with the leader and that they are only paid to do certain ‘transactions’ for the company, in return for which they are paid. Failure to complete these transactions results in penalties or punishments. This is a good way to manage only short-term tasks. Transformational
Leadership – this is a true leader who inspires his team
by painting a vision
of the future. They spend a lot of time communicating
their vision and
then
allow their team members to decide how to achieve this vision. This is
by far
the best leadership style to aspire to as it achieve both people and
task
results.
The tasks to be
achieved
The people to be
managed The organizations goals Your own style and preference Styles of Leadership Related articles
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