...http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_84.htm Leadership Styles From Mahatma Gandhi, Kung Fu Tzu, Nelson Mandela to Martin Luther King and Steve Jobs, there can seem to be as many ways to lead people as there are leaders. Fortunately, businesspeople and psychologists have developed useful, simple ways to describe the main styles of leadership. By understanding these styles and their impact, you can develop your own approach to leadership and become a more effective leader. Adapting Your Approach to Leadership In business, a leadership style called "transformational leadership" is often the most effective approach to use. Transformational leaders have integrity, they inspire people with a shared vision of the future, they set clear goals and motivate people towards them, they manage delivery, and they communicate well with their teams. (You can find out more about transformational leadership at the end of this article.) However, leadership is not "one size fits all" thing; often, you must adapt your style to fit a situation or a specific group. This is why it's useful to gain a thorough understanding of other leadership styles; after all, the more approaches you're familiar with, the more tools you'll be able to use to lead effectively. Let's take a deeper look at some of the leadership styles that you can use. 1. Transactional Leadership This leadership style starts with the idea that team members agree to obey their leader when they accept a...
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...SAT2 Leadership Task 1 A1.) I am a Participative/Consultative leader. My style on the Leadership Grid is Sound Leader. I believe in empowering my team to participate in the decision making process both as a team and as individuals. My team members are experts in their particular functions, and as such have valuable skills and experience to add to the decision making process. In order not to slip into the Human Relations leadership style, I maintain control of the final decision after getting input from the team, and manage the insignificant day-to-day decisions with an understanding of the needs of the team and the requirements of the project. I set incremental and final goals for the team after we have discussed a project and determined the appropriate path to successful completion. I am aware of personal goals of my team members, and support them while keeping in mind the organizational objectives. a.) One strength of the Participative/Consultative leadership style is that the team members feel heard and are invested in the outcome as they have contributed to the project development and structural process. This means that there is less complaining, more focus on the goals of a project, and generally more willingness to cooperate with other team members in order to reach objectives. Another is that in utilizing my subject matter experts in a given area, I do not myself have to become an expert in each area. I trust my subject matter experts to know their area of expertise...
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...into Team Players? Discuss each. Let’s begin with the definition of team: A team is two or more people who combine their talents and abilities to achieve a specific goal or strings of goals. Also, a team, by definition, is made up people who are different only in their areas of skill and who are equal when they sit down together as a work group, although all teams are groups, not all groups are teams. Team players can make a difference to the effectiveness of an organization. A team is formed to take advantage of the power of synergy. Synergy means that the total is greater than the addition of its components. For example, let’s say that a group of four will individually produce for units, the four individuals may produce six or seven or even more units of work when they work as a team (American Management Association, 2006). Moreover, an organization can be kept running and maximize profits if there is team work. A team is a group whose individual efforts result in a performance that is greater than the sum of the individual inputs. A team player is an individual that can be relied on to do his or her part of the work and be relied on to complete tasks and work cooperatively with others. Team players must possess complementary competence, committed to a common purpose to work together and accountable for doing any work that contribute to achieving organizational goals. These are considered as characteristics of team players. Any manager in turning individual to team players...
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...Table of Contents Introduction 2 Definition of Leadership and Management 2 1.1 Traits of a successful leader 3 1.2 Theories of leadership and Management 5 The Great man theory 5 Trait theory 6 Behavioural theory 6 Role theory 6 Leadership grid 7 Situational leadership theory 7 Path goal theory 7 Transformational leadership 7 Collective leadership 8 1.3 Challenges of leadership and management practice 8 Definition of Motivation 9 2.1 Theories of Motivation 9 Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs 9 Frederick Herzberg's Two Factors Theory 11 Douglas McGregor’s theory X and theory Y 11 The expectancy theory 12 The goal setting theory 12 The equity theory 12 2.2 Roles of Leadership and Management in Motivation 12 2.3 Contribution of Performance Management systems 15 Definition of Group 16 Definition of Team 16 Difference between Groups and Teams 16 3.1 How to develop a team 16 3.2 Different models of team leadership 17 Tuckman’s team development model 18 3.3 Importance of Teams within Organisation 19 Conclusion 19 References 20 Leadership Management Introduction Leadership is important for an organization to run its management system successfully. It is necessary for an organization to run properly and manage the employee in such a way the organization can get maximum output from them. A good leader of an organization can operate the activities of the business including set the purpose and organizational objectives, define...
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...Clinton Richardson Servant Leadership vs. Traditional Leadership CA 233 Introduction to Leadership Professor Caroline Heckman Leadership has been thought to be a trait, ability, a skill, a behavior, a relationship and an influenced process. There are general descriptions of leadership that can be broken down into many forms. While the traditional style of leadership still exist and is very prevalent, there are several modern leadership styles that have been created throughout the years. One modern style of leadership is servant leadership. This may actually sound like an oxymoron because how can you be a servant and leader at the same time. However, this leadership has been found to very effective in some settings. There has been a rise in new forms of leadership style due to people feeling that the traditional style of leadership just doesn’t work anymore. Traditional leadership has evolved to so many different forms of leadership one that will be discussed specifically is servant leadership. First, I will compare the basis of each type of leadership. I will then compare how both styles of leaders interact to their team and how their team respects them. Lastly, I will also explore the pros can cons of each leadership style. Leadership has evolved throughout the years and it is important to recognize the effectiveness of new forms of leadership. This paper will compare and contrast the values, attributes, interaction and team moral of traditional and servant...
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...following: Based on your reading, who do you see as having a successful leadership style, and why do you consider him or her a successful leader? Provide an example of a historical figure or someone you know. Review the results of your Leadership and Team Self-Management Assessment. How does your leadership style compare to the successful leader you identified? What traits does the successful leader have that you think you need to develop? What strengths do you have from which your example leader could benefit? Name Course Instructor Topic: Leadership style Introduction Leadership refers to the individual who has an ability to think creatively and out of the boxes, which possess great ideas and has a potential to accomplish these ideas. A leader has an ability to see beyond the obstacles and come up with solutions. Different types of leaderships work in different kinds of situations. Different theories have proposed different types of leadership styles. Some of them are related to each other in one way or another. According to the Behavioral theories, the most common types of leadership are as follows (Sullivan & Decker, 2009); * Autocratic leadership: it’s an extreme kind of leadership in which leader exerts authoritative control over the employees or team members, giving them very little room for making suggestions. * Democratic leadership: democratic leader give an opportunity to the team members to participate in the decision making process before taking...
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...WGU SAT2 Leadership Task 2 A. Leadership Style There are certainly several types of leaders, and both good qualities and bad qualities to every type. While I think most leaders cannot be pinned completely into any one label, my own personal leadership style most closely matches the participative style. The participative style of leadership lends itself toward collaboration within the group rather than dictatorship or authoritarian style leadership that makes firm decisions based on their own personal judgment. Generally, the authoritarian leadership style is considered to be the more traditional type. In the past most businesses operated under the assumption that there were not effective reasons to discuss decisions with staff before making significant changes. This rather militant style of operating businesses can be visualized as a top-down approach; decisions come from above and trickle to those below. This is mostly effective, but leaves the people on the bottom, oftentimes the ones actually doing the labor, with no voice about how to perform their daily work activities. Over time management concepts have evolved into modern techniques that rely more on listening to and understanding the needs of employees as more businesses realize how much more productive employees can be when they have some control in their team or work environment. I do feel that some leadership decisions can and should be made directly by the leader or manager in charge, as there is not always...
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...Different leadership styles used in the public services - P1 Abbie Wood In this assignment I will be writing about all the different leadership styles which are used in the public services and everyday life: Authoritarian – This is a direct leadership style where the leader gives clear instructions for what needs to be completed. It is a style where the leader maintains power/order. The leader makes decisions on their own (independently) and no one in the rest of the group has a say or has an opinion. This leadership style would normally be used by an officer in the army, like Hitler, this is because they normally generally are loud and bossy also, this leadership style helps to motivate teams. They think that they are always right (which in most cases they normally are) and that they’re way is the best way. This type of leadership style could be used in a situation where the/a team needs to do something fast and successfully (For example – on the battlefield, if a team is under fire the leader shouts instructions and the team (unit) must respond quickly because everyone in that groups life’s are on the line). This style however wouldn’t work effectively in a situation where a group needs to plan something because only the leader (‘boss’) has a say and therefore some members of the group might not listen and do their own thing or they wouldn’t pay attention and maybe won’t have a clue what they need to do. This leadership style is similar to the ‘task orientated’ style because...
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...Issues in Business, Management and Education 2013 Virtual teams: opportunities and challenges for e-leaders Snellman Carita Liliana* a Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Business, Leiritie 1, Vantaa 01600, Finland Abstract In the globalized world with crucial technological changes, leaders are facing unforeseen opportunities as well as challenges while striving to reach their objectives. Such changes have led to organizational restructurings and implied rethinking of leadership functions and practices. Changing organizational structures, from traditional hierarchical towards lower and more flexible ones, have made leaders organize work in new ways. Teams account for one new way of organizing work and reaching organizational goals. Likewise, globalized markets have made leaders search for new solutions to meet the needs of customers. In consequence, organizations strive for competitive advantages through downsizing, subcontracting, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and other collaborative and network-based alternatives which are typically facilitated by virtual teams. Virtual teams are geographically and organizationally dispersed teams that function over time zones. Due to such dispersion, physical contact in virtual teams is reduced or lacking altogether which means that collaboration is enabled by IT-solutions such as computerbased communication. This kind of electronically facilitated team work is known to imply opportunities as well as challenges for ...
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...Leadership Integration Project Assignment Team Leadership Competency Pulkit Jaiswal MA in Leadership (Health) Trinity Western University Date February 15, 2014 Without going deep into the literature, we can deduce that team-leadership is the ability of an individual to lead a team by making the team members perform to raise the overall productivity of the team. But team leadership is much more than this; here I would like to give an example of the person for whom I have a great respect in my heart. He was very swayed by the issue of female feticide in the country. This issue emerged due to the poor standards of health care in India. Female feticide is the “the selective abortion of female fetuses” (Ahmad, 2010, p. 13). Though, in-human activities are taking all over the world, but it is the cruelest kind of human activity seen over the globe. Himself being a doctor, he was very discomfited by the menace of illegal abortions of the fetuses. Realizing that he alone cannot do much to eradicate this anti-social activity, he went out for the support of the common public. He explained his vision to the public and raised the attention of the public towards the issue. He made them to work like a team, he described the roles to them and the importance which it carries in accomplishing the vision. This eventually developed confidence in them and provoked the leadership ability in each of them. All of them got aligned to work for a common cause and assumed a leadership...
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...do see advertisements for head of function, general manager, senior manager, corporate executive, managing director, chief executive officer, shop floor supervisor, and finance manager. Is it purely semantics? Just words, or is there a meaning behind the words? I think that there is meaning. And I think that there is a different meaning to leader and manager. And that there is a need for different types of leadership in different types of change. This means that there are actually fewer common threads in this chapter. So unlike other chapters, this assignment will separately address the different ways of leading the four main types of change. The aim of this unit is to develop the skills and knowledge needed for working with and leading others, through understanding the importance of recruiting the right people for the job. What is the difference between management and leadership? It is a question that has been asked more than once and also answered in different ways. The biggest difference between managers and leaders is the way they motivate the people who work or follow them, and this sets the tone for most other aspects of what they do. Many people, by the way, are both. They have management...
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...Leadership Practice University of Wales Trinity Saint David In partnership with College Of Technology London 4/28/2011 Peddireddy Upender Kumar CTL Student ID: 096941-87 UWTSD ID: 29002354/1 Term: 3 Group: 2 Module Code: SBMG5006. Lecturer: Dele Amusan. Table of Contents Introduction 3 Leadership 3 Teams 3 Temporary teams 4 Permanent teams 4 Stages Team Development 4 Theories of leadership 6 Leadership styles 7 Leadership skills and approaches 8 Leaders Role in Communication: 9 My contribution in group team event 10 Conclusion 11 References: 12 Introduction Leadership The leader is the encouragement and principal of the accomplishment. Leader who is the individual in the group that holds a position of understanding of behaviour and skills that makes others feel like to pursue his or her path. According to drucker (2007) ‘Leadership’ is distinct process of influencing, motivating and coaching group of people in an organized way towards goal accomplishment. Coaching is frequently linked with leadership, to be a successful leader, firstly leaders necessity is to know themselves with their own strengths and weakness, and people around them. Leaders should create a group of people who recognize leader’s objectives and participate to achieving them; leaders have to help each individual person of a team to perform their incredibly paramount. Every organisation will call for teamwork at some time or another,...
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...Contents Page Introduction Articles to Inform & Stimulate The Five Learning Disciplines Conversation & Tacit Knowledge Communities of Practice Teams Is Your Team Really a Team? The Five Levels of Teamwork How Do You Build Team Performance? What Kind of Team Player Are You? The Four Stages of Team Development Turning People On To Teamwork Rethinking Teams Some Questions for Team Reflection Will that be Leadership or Management? Leadership & Learning Blogs-Websites Leadership & Management Books Videos: Leadership & Learning Social Media and Networking Books Social Media and Networking Blogs About the Author 1 2 3 11 15 17 17 19 22 24 27 28 30 34 35 41 42 44 45 47 48 Introduction The rapidity of change, stemming from technology, an ageing workforce and globalization, is growing, exerting pressure on organizations to adapt. Traditional workplace practices are being questioned by Generations X and Y. Issues such as employee engagement, leadership and management practices, virtual teams, distributed work and alliances with stakeholders are being viewed through a new lens. As an aid to help you in your work and learning journey, this resource guide contains a diverse selection of information sources on leadership, management, personal mastery, team learning and more. I’ve read most of the books that are mentioned and am familiar with the websiteblogs. The guide begins with a series of short articles I’ve written over the past few years. These are intended to assist you reflect...
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...and High Direction Style S2 leadership style consists of directions from managers based on ideas that are solicited from members of the managers’ team. S2 leaders actively seek team member’s involvement in the process by encouraging them to speak their concerns and creating an environment that members feel they are able to voice their concerns and opinions involving organizational problems and active participants in the solutions. S2 leaders like to share problems with team members, listen to their points of view regarding problems before deciding on a course of action to correct the issue. S2 leaders meet only with the individuals that need to be involved, run effective meetings when required and are excellent at using input acquired from members to make decisions that will speed up the decision making process. S2 leaders typically use a systematic approach that can include the following. * Identifying problems * Clarifying goals * Generating alternatives * Choosing the best solution * Building an action plan * Monitoring implementation Strengths of the S2 leadership style: The S2 leadership style can benefit team members and an organization in many ways such as a positive work environment, successful initiatives or projects, increased creative thinking, and can reduce friction and office politics within the group. * Positive work environment: S2 leaders create a positive work environment by allowing team members to share in responsibility...
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...To identify Leadership Style and its influence on Team Effectiveness | 11/15/2013 INTRODUCTION LEADERSHIP Leadership style is the manner and the approach of providing direction implementing plans and motivating people.Leadership is just more than science;it is an art as well. The art of leadership varies from leader to leader. Different situations call for different kind of leadership styles. Kurt Lewin led a group of researchers to identify three major styles of leadership. They are: * Authoritarian or Autocratic * Participative or Democratic * Delegative or Free Reign Although effective leaders use all three styles, with one of them normally dominant, most leaders tend to stick with a one style. Some leaders are very task- oriented; they simply want to get things done. Others are very people oriented; they want people to be happy. And others are a combination of two. If you prefer to lead by setting and enforcing tight schedules, you tend to be more production oriented(or task oriented). If you make people your priority and try to accommodate employee needs, then you are more people oriented. TEAM EFFECTIVENESS The other dimension to the study is team effectiveness. According to the team effectiveness model, the following are the factors that affect team effectiveness. Teams can continuously improve their effectiveness by focussing on improving their functioning in five key areas – goals, roles, procedures, relationships and leadership: * Goals:...
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