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Leaderships Styles
Leaderships Styles
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3 MAIN TYPES OF LEADERSHIP STYLES
2 OTHER LEADERSHIP STYLES
THE AUTOCRATIC OR AUTHORITARIAN
LEADER
Given the power to make decision
alone, having total authority.
Develop a vision – people want to follow someone who knows where he or she is going
Keep your cool – the best leaders show their mettle under fire
Encourage risk – nothing demoralizes the troops like knowing the slightest failure could
jeopardize their entire career
Be an expert – from boardroom to mailroom, everyone had better
understand that you know what you’re talking about
Invite dissent – your people aren’t giving you their best … if they are
afraid to speak up
Simplify – you need to see the big picture in order to set a course,
communicate it, and maintain it
Charisma
Evaluate and supervise
Innovate, inspire
Negotiate, budget
Vision, communicate it
Reality check, sets time limits, copes
Ability to change things, set direction,
with complexity
look at larger picture, align people, look
at competition and do better and
different, willing to listen and learn,
Bring order and consistency
sensitive to concerns
Two approaches
Compare traits who emerged as leaders with those who did not emerge
Behavior can be learned, thus if supported we could train people to be leaders and
teach leadership
Several studies were done to examine leader behavior and focused on two aspects of
Leadership behavior
Charismatic Democratic
Laissez-Faire Authoritarian
(Low)
Position-power (strong-weak)
attainable goals)
Willingness to accept responsibility