Here are some common leadership styles....
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
Leader is a person in a group who is genuinely interested in motivating other group members to achieve a certain goal. If we look into various sector of our life, leadership exists everywhere. Here are some common leadership styles:
Effective leadership
Effective leadership influences their followers for numerous organizational objectives in order to bring change. Transformational leadership is responding to the new form of society in which leaders have shifted their responsibilities to the lower level. And members are more independent and are involved in the decision-making processes. But still the leadership style that is practiced varies from situation to situation. We cannot apply a single kind of leadership style to all the situations.
Affiliative leadership
Workplace stress hinders the progress of the employee so it is very important to have a leader to guide in a specific situation. This style can be used in an organization for boosting the organizational performance.
Coaching style
This style of leadership is in favor of unlocking the hidden capabilities within the subordinates by making judgments and imposing agendas. It is suitable for the environments like a cricket ground and consumes a lot of energy.
Autocratic style
It was practiced by ancient Rome. Various politicians and army officers have adopted such kind of leadership style.
Authoritative style
There is no compromise on the quality of work. Strict and severe style of leadership is used to get work done. The main responsibility lies on the shoulder of a leader. He is responsible for performing various tasks for increasing productivity.
Democratic style
Group members are the decision makers but the final decision is made by the leader. Leader in that case must consider opinions of team members. Members in that case must be capable enough to decide and give useful opinions.
Leadership requires a very keen selection of individuals. Nearly in every kind of leadership style it is specified that a particular leadership style is good for some kind of subordinates. But Jim Collins describes this beautifully, “First get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats-and then they figured out where to drive it”. If people are wrong, cunning and inconsistent, it is a time to change subordinates.
