6 #leadership styles and when you should use them? ✔️
Leadership can and should be situational, depending on the needs of the team.
Here is a thread 🧵 that brings you different aspects of leadership. #threadstorytime
#LeadershipDevelopment #curated
Leadership can and should be situational, depending on the needs of the team.
Here is a thread 🧵 that brings you different aspects of leadership. #threadstorytime
#LeadershipDevelopment #curated
The pacesetting leader
“Do as I do, now.”
Expects and models excellence and self-direction.
Works best: When the team is already motivated and skilled, and the leader needs quick results.
“Do as I do, now.”
Expects and models excellence and self-direction.
Works best: When the team is already motivated and skilled, and the leader needs quick results.
The authoritative leader
“Come with me.”
Mobilizes the team toward a common vision and focuses on end goals, leaving the means up to each individual.
“Come with me.”
Mobilizes the team toward a common vision and focuses on end goals, leaving the means up to each individual.
The affiliative leader
“People come first.”
Works to create emotional bonds that bring a feeling of bonding and belonging to the organization.
3/9
“People come first.”
Works to create emotional bonds that bring a feeling of bonding and belonging to the organization.
3/9
The coaching leader
“Try this.”
Develops people for the future.
Avoid when teammates are defiant and unwilling to change or learn, or if the leader lacks proficiency.
“Try this.”
Develops people for the future.
Avoid when teammates are defiant and unwilling to change or learn, or if the leader lacks proficiency.
The coercive leader
“Do what I tell you.”
Demands immediate compliance.
Downside: Can alienate people and stifle flexibility and inventiveness.
“Do what I tell you.”
Demands immediate compliance.
Downside: Can alienate people and stifle flexibility and inventiveness.
The democratic leader
“What do you think?”
Builds consensus through participation.
Avoid when it is not the best choice in an emergency situation.
“What do you think?”
Builds consensus through participation.
Avoid when it is not the best choice in an emergency situation.
What's the ideal mix?
➡️ Take two cups of authoritative leadership, one cup of democratic, coaching, and affiliative leadership, and a dash of pacesetting and coercive leadership “to taste” :)
➡️ Take two cups of authoritative leadership, one cup of democratic, coaching, and affiliative leadership, and a dash of pacesetting and coercive leadership “to taste” :)
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