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Leadership Skills and Styles
Leadership Skills and Styles
Supportive Behaviors
Directive Behaviors
Task-oriented behaviors
Accomplish goals by
Giving directions
Establishing goals and methods of evaluation
Setting time lines
Defining roles
Showing how goals are to be achieved
One-way communication
Supportive Behaviors
Relationship-oriented behaviors
Leaders help group members feel more
comfortable about themselves, their co-
workers, and the situation
Two-way communication
Leadership Styles
Directing
Coaching
Supporting
Delegating
Directing
Focuses on goal achievement
Spends little time using supportive
behaviors
Leader gives instruction and supervises
subordinates carefully
High directive-low supportive style
Coaching
Focuses on both goal achievement and
maintenance of groups emotional needs
Leader gives encouragement and solicits
the input of subordinates
High directive-high supportive style
Supporting
Does not focus exclusively on goals
Leader uses supportive behaviors to bring
out employees’ skills
Leader gives subordinates control for day-
to-day decisions but is still available to
solve problems
High supportive-low directive
Delegating
Subordinates take responsibility for getting
job done the way they see fit
Leader gives control to subordinates and
does not interfere with unnecessary social
support
Low supportive-low directive
Leadership Styles
High Supportive Low Supportive