2. Agenda
• Leader and leadership
• What is leadership style
• Leadership styles
3. Leader and Leadership
• Leader
• A leader is someone who can influence others and who has managerial
authority.
• Leadership
• Leadership is a process of leading a group and influencing that group to
achieve its goals.
• The key of leadership is -- Power
4. What is leadership style
•A leadership style is a leader's method of providing direction,
implementing plans, and motivating people.
• How to lead subordinated
• How to perform other management tasks
5. Leadership style - Autocratic Style - Do as I say
• Look like dictatorship.
• leader's word is "law."
• No involvement from the followers in decision-making.
Best For:
Crisis situations and unresponsive members.
6. Leadership style - Autocratic Style - Do as I say
Advantage:
• It allows fast decisions to be made.
• It improves overall communication.
• It improves productivity.
• It handles crisis situations effectively.
• It reduces employee stress.
Disadvantage:
• It often leads to micromanagement.
• It does not offer a sense of professional ownership.
• It creates a lack of trust.
7. Leadership style - Pacesetting Style - Do as I do
• leader leads from the front
• leader sets high standards for performance.
• doing things better and faster
Best For:
Motivated, competent and independent team.
8. Leadership style - Pacesetting Style - Do as I do
Advantage:
• Business goals are quickly achieved.
• Highlights the competencies of a highly-skilled and experienced team.
• Issues are swiftly addressed
Disadvantage:
• Employees can feel stressed, overwhelmed and unmotivated
• Work becomes repetitive and boring
• Employees receive little or no feedback
• Employee engagement is low
9. Leadership style - Democratic Style – What do you think
• leader sharing information with team member
• leader seek team member opinions before approving the final decision.
• doing things better and faster
Best For:
Getting buy-in, especially if there is no clear way forward.
10. Leadership style - Democratic Style – What do you think?
Advantage:
• It is a leadership style anyone can practice
• It helps to solve complex problems
• It builds team-based relationships
• It makes honesty a top priority
• It improves the relevant knowledge of the team
• It gives team members a look at the bigger picture.
Disadvantage:
• It can cause leaders to start fence-sitting
• It struggles to offer a clear definition of leadership
• It does not always offer a positive outcome
11. Leadership style - Coaching Style – Try this
• One-to-one style focused
• Helping to improve the performance to achieve goals
• employees should show initiative and want more professional development
Best For:
Building long-term capabilities.
12. Leadership style - Coaching Style – Try this
Advantage:
• People enjoy working with coaching leaders
• Coaching leads to clear expectations
• Coaching gives an organization a competitive advantage
• Coaching can identify weaknesses, and transform them into strengths
Disadvantage:
• Coaching requires a lot of time and patience
• Coaching is difficult
• Coaching is a two-way street
• Coaching without good chemistry can impact progress
13. Leadership style - Visionary Style – Come with me
• inspiring and motivating people to pursue a long term vision.
• Communication, transparency and goal setting is crucial.
Best For:
When new direction is needed.
14. Leadership style - Visionary Style – Come with me
Advantage:
• There is a clear idea of the overall goal that everyone is working towards
• focus the team’s energy on what ultimately matters to make that overarching goal a reality
• proactive and can often foresee challenges
• value innovation and creativity and help your team to thrive in these areas
• Place high value on acknowledging worker’s achievements and making them feel valuable
Disadvantage:
• There is less emphasis on the smaller details that impact the day-to-day operation of the
organization.
• The vision may be lost if its too intertwined with the personality of the leader.
• A visionary leader can easily get a team excited about a project but often loses this momentum
because there’s no follow-through.
15. Leadership style – Other types
• Directive Leadership
Providing the team members with all required guidance and coaching, discuss employee's roles and
responsibilities, give support to remove any obstacles that prevent achieving the goals and give awards when
appropriate.
• Charismatic Leadership
The leader encouraging behavior in others.
• Bureaucratic Leadership
Leader is restricted to the official duties under the hierarchy of organization, following rules for management
and decision making, best used in companies that don't require much creativity or innovation from employees
• Servant Leadership
individual interacts with others—either in a management or fellow employee capacity—with the aim of
achieving authority rather than power.
16. Leadership style – Other types
• Laissez-Faire Leadership
Do what you want as long as you get the job done right, the key to success is to
build a strong team.
• Transactional Leadership
• leader focus on supervision and performance, virtual contract between leader and
follower for a rewards after achievement.
• Transformational Leadership
• Leader discuss with the team the required changes and how to do it, execution of
the changes depend on the committed team members.