LEADERSHIP STYLES

AND SKILLS
 WHAT IS LEADERSHIP STYLE?
• A Good Leader is one who can use a different Styles
and Quality depending on Situation and who has
Mastered the necessary Interpersonal Skills that need
to be applied.- Melissa Contreras
• Leaders’ styles encompass how they Relate to others
within and outside the Organization, how they View
themselves and their Position, and—to a large
extent—whether or not they are Successful as Leaders.
 WHY PAY ATTENTION TO
LEADERSHIP STYLE?

Because the style of an Organization’s

leadership is reflected in both the Nature of
that Organization and its Relationship with
the Community.
 CONCEPTIONS OF LEADERSHIP:
• Exercising power.
• Gaining and exercising the privileges of high
status.
• Being the boss.
• Task orientation.
• Taking care of people.
• Empowerment.
• Providing moral leadership.
• Providing and working toward a vision.
 METHODS OF LEADERSHIP:
• Pure exercise of power.
• Political scheming.
• Using relationships.
• Setting an example.
• Persuasion.
• Sharing power.
• Charisma.
• Involving followers in the goal.
• Various combinations of these and other methods.
 6 LEADERSHIP STYLES
ACCORDING TO MELISSA CONTRERAS
1. The Coaching Leader – Works with Individuals, taking
them aside and showing them how they can Improve
themselves.
2. The Affiliative Leader – Strive for Harmony within the
Group and Effective Build Networks in Organization.
It will be useful when there is an Issue of Low Morale or
Lack of Trust in the Organization.
3. The Democratic Leader – Use Input from the Team’s
Individual and Collective Skill Set and Acumen to Work
Out the Best Decisions going forward.
4. The Pacesetting Leader – Who has High Standards for
Himself or Herself and Expects the Same from Others in
Organization.
5. The Visionary Leader – The Perfect Leader for a Drastic
Organizational Change, and know how to Inspire and Not
be Quick to Give Up on the Vision.
6. The Commanding Leader – This Styles Involves Hardly
any Positive Feedback at all, Low Morale is Almost Certain.
It can be apply in Extreme Situation.
 3 MAIN TYPES OF
LEADERSHIP STYLES
- KURT LEWIS -
 THE AUTOCRATIC OR AUTHORITARIAN
LEADER
• Given the Power to make
Decisions alone, having
total Authority.

• Closely Supervises and

Controls People when they
Perform Certain Tasks.
 THE DEMOCRATIC OR
PARTICIPATIVE LEADER
• Includes one or more
People in the Decision
Making Process of
Determining what to do
and how to do it.
• Maintains the Final
Decision Making
Authority.
THE LAISSEZ-FAIRE OR DELEGATIVE LEADER
• Allows People to make their own Laissez-faire is a
Decisions. French phrase
meaning “let do”
• Leader is still Responsible for the
Decisions that are made.
• This Style allows Greater Freedom
and Responsibility for People.
• However, you need Competent
People around you or Nothing will
Get done.
OTHER STYLES OF LEADER
 THE CHARISMATIC LEADER

• Leads by Creating
Energy and Eagerness in
People.
• Leader is Well Liked and
Inspires People.
• Appeals to People’s
Emotional Side.
 THE SERVANT LEADER

• The Highest Priority of this

Leader is to Encourage,
Support and Enable People
to fulfill their full Potential
and Abilities.
• Helps People Achieve their
Goals.
• Works for the People.
 THE TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER
• Translating Strategy into
Actions.
• Building Strategic
Relationships.
• Leveraging Your Emotional
Intelligence
• Leading through Change.
• Developing Employee
Capability.
• Transformational leadership: It sees a true leader as one who can
distill the values and hopes and needs of followers into a vision.
 THE TRANSACTIONAL LEADER
• Reward Performance
• Short Term
• Practical
• Corporate Structure
• Less Flexible
• External Motivation
• Transactional leadership: Views leadership as based on
transactions between leader and followers.
HOW DO YOU DETERMINE WHAT
IS AN APPROPRIATE STYLE?
• Good leaders usually have a style that they
consciously use most of the time, but they're not
rigid. They change as necessary to deal with
whatever comes up.
• Be consistent with what people in the organization
expect.
• Your style needs to be consistent with the goals,
mission, and philosophy of your organization.
 HOW DO YOU CHOOSE AND
DEVELOP A LEADERSHIP STYLE?

• Start with yourself.

• Think about the Needs of the Organization
or Initiative.
• Observe and Learn from other leaders.
• Use the Research on Leadership.
• Believe in what You’re Doing.
• Be Prepared to Change.
 QUALITIES OF A LEADER
❖ Honesty
❖ Communication
❖ Education
❖ Flexibility
❖ Delegation
❖ Organization
❖ Confidence
❖ Inspirational
❖ Humor
❖ Commitment
 THE TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE
LEADER
❖ Emotional Stability
❖ Dominance
❖ Enthusiasm
❖ Conscientiousness
❖ Social Boldness
❖ Tough – Mindedness
❖ Self – Assurance
 THE TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE
LEADER
❖ Compulsiveness
❖ High Energy
❖ Intuitiveness
❖ Maturity
❖ Team Orientation
❖ Empathy
❖ Charisma
 7 OBSTACLE TO EFFECTIVE
LEADERSHIP
❖ Old Mindsets
❖ Personal Rather than Corporate Agenda
❖ Vagueness about Direction
❖ Micromanaging Everything
❖ Failure to Act
❖ Having to be Right
❖ Failing to Adapt
COMBINATIONS OF STYLES
• A leader can also be a
Combination of
Styles…
• What Leadership
Styles do you think
Adolf Hitler used?
• Authoritative
• Autocratic
What Leadership Styles do you think
Martin Luther King, Jr. used?

Transformational
Charismatic