Leadership is the relationship in which one person influence others to work together willingly on related tasks to attain that which the leader desires.
The key elements of leadership are communication & ability to influence. Every leader has his own style to lead or influence people, hence leadership styles adopted by leaders have been classified in traditional & modern context.
Traditional
1. Autocratic-An autocratic is one who takes all decisions by himself & expects to be obeyed by subordinates without being questioned.
2. Consultative or participative-Leader involves people, takes their opinion & makes a decision.
3. Bureaucratic-This style is more often used in government departments. The leader insists on following the organization’s rules & formalities.
4. Manipulative-The leader believes that followers should be manipulated for attaining the goal. Here, subordinates needs are viewed as tool to extract performance.
Modern
1. Directing-The leader provides specific instructions & closely supervises task accomplishment.
2. Coaching-The leader continues to direct but also explains things, suggest & support progress.
3. Supporting-The leader facilitates & supports efforts towards task accomplishments and shares responsibilities for decision making with them.
4. Delegating-The leaders turns over responsibility for decision making & problem solving to subordinates.
Friends, there is no best style of leadership. The leader must constantly change to meet the new situations & needs of new people.
Flexibility is the key today. Thus the ideal form of leadership today is Situation Adaptable Leadership (SAL).
deepak
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Some Leaders love to see their associates’ blossom and flourish, that is why they empower them, in the process every one evolves, grows and gains as a TEAM. Actually they have learnt and believe in this thought (me too):
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
Also, I believe in what Great ‘Lao Tzu’ said centuries ago:
"The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence,
Not so good when people praise his government,
Less good when people stand in fear,
Worst, when people are contemptuous
Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you,
But of a good leader, who speaks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves"
- Lao Tzu
Still at times/situational, I remember good old sayings: ‘there are different courses for different horses’ or ‘different strokes for different folks’, I think some what similar to what you mention here as SAL [Situation Adaptable Leadership- I really don’t know some of these hard core management jargons, but love to read these days :-) ], this really works.
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