Are you like a commander or a steward? More like John D. Rockefeller or Gandhi? Is your leadership style creative or rigid? Check out this presentation and find out the leadership style best describes you.
2. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the
raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the
building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
—Peter Drucker
3. The Icon: John D. Rockefeller
1. Autocractic Leadership - The Commander
4. Little or no input from group members
Leaders make the decisions
Group leaders dictate all the work methods and processes
Group members are rarely trusted with decisions or
important tasks
Take full credit for the work
Adopts one-way communication
Characterstics
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6. Getting things done quickly
Improving communication and logistics
Better response to changes in the external environment
Keeps groups and indiviuals on task
Anticipating problems in advance, and better realization of
consequences of an action by one section on other
sections
Pros
7. Allows abuse of power
Discourage creativity and new ideas
Harms long-term morale compared to other styles
This leadership style is unsuited to build trusting
relationships
Forced to work at full capacity, leading to stress and other
health problems
Cons
8. The Icon: Pope Francis
2. Bureaucractic Leadership - The Adminstrator
9. Combines a top-down management style with strict
adherence to policies and procedures within an
organization
Leaders are empowered by the offices they hold and are
held accountable to the next level in the hierarchy
The organizational structure is rigid and often has strict
delineation of tasks and authority
Characterstics
10. The structure is highly repeatable
Operates according to clear objectives, metrics and
measurability
Establishes processes that consistently get results
It is a perfect management style for large companies,
military organizations and government departments, who
count on reliable results
Pros
11. It is not a management style for those who are are
expected to be free thinkers and think outside the box
This is not the management style for companies that are
heart-based
Disreagrds individual workers
Foundations that serve others would want to choose a
leadership style that is more people-oriented
Cons
12. The Icon: Oprah Winfrey
3. Charismatic Leadership - The Charmer
13. Sensitivity to their environment and the needs of their
employees or followers
Articulate and visionary
Inclined toward personal risk taking
Adept at using unconventional behavior
Acts energetically, motivating others to move forward
Inspires passion
Characterstics
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15. Inspire people to work together for a common cause
Organizations are committed to a central mission
Management prioritizes learning from mistakes in an effort
to succeed in their mission
Charismatic-led companies tend to be cohesive because
their workers have a clear purpose
Spurs others to action
Pros
16. Leaders may develop tunnel vision or arrogance, undoing
their previous good deeds
Charismatic leaders sometimes become unresponsive to
their subordinates or constituents
These leaders may not learn from their mistakes,
compounding them
Idealizes or romanticizes the leader
Cons
17. The Icon: Indra Nooyi
4. Democratic Leadership - The Motivator
18. Group members are encouraged to share ideas and
opinions, even though the leader retains the final say over
decisions
Members of the group feel more engaged in the process
Creativity is encouraged and rewarded
Encourage collaboration and cooperation
Establishes all team members as equals
Characterstics
19. Inspire people to work together for a common cause
Organizations are committed to a central mission
Management prioritizes learning from mistakes in an effort
to succeed in their mission
Charismatic-led companies tend to be cohesive because
their workers have a clear purpose
Spurs others to action
Pros
20. Overly dependent on the expertise and experience of
subordinates
Fast, incisive decisions may be difficult or even impossible,
resulting in missed deadlines
Promotes unclear or overlapping worker roles
Operates less efficiently than other styles
Cons
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22. The Icon: Warren Buffett
5. Laissez-Faire Leadership - The Delegator
23. Complete freedom for followers to make decisions
Leaders provide the tools and resources needed
Group members are expected to solve problems on their
own
Power is handed over to followers, yet leaders still take
responsibility for the groups decisions and actions
Characterstics
24. No work for the leader
Encourages creativity and new ideas
Yields high job satisfaction through employee self rule
Provides occupational frredom to workers
Promotes trust in workers
Pros
25. Poorer quality of work
Lacks accountability
Doesn't mentor "rising start" in staff
Workers may lack knowledge so as to make effective
decisions
Team members may get off track and may not prioritize
correctly
Cons
27. Puts service to others before self-interest
Includes the whole team in decision making
Provides tools to get the job done
Actively listen to their followers
Conceptualize their vision and goals into strategies and
objects that serve the organization and its members.
Stays out of limelight, lets team accept credit for results
Characterstics
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29. Builds strong, close-knit and focused teams
Focused on the big picture and permanent change
Inspires worker and managerial loyalty
Create a positive culture and lead to high morale
Pros
30. Depends heavily on loyalty and trust
Does not define or structure role
Requires an existing system to change or fix
Cons
31. The Icon: Alan Sugar
7. Transactional Leadership - The Standardizer
32. Do not seek to transform things, they tend to be highly
resistant to change.
Promotes rule compliance through incentives and
punishments
This leadership style is quite passive because the focus is
on maintaining status quo
Places a lot of importance on hierarchy, and the corporate
structure and culture.
Characterstics
33. Achieve short-term goals quickly
Define rewards and punishments clearly for workers
Effective when it comes to increase in production and
cutting down costs
Transactional leadership is also composed of a structure
that is clear and concise
Pros
34. Oposses change
Limits creativity through strictly defined goals
Punishes outside-the-box thinker
This leadership style is rigid
Do not encourage employees to act creatively or think for
themselves
Cons
35. The Icon: Nelson Mandela
8. Transformational Leadership - The Inspirer
36. Explores and attempts new ideas
Serves as a role model for all involved
Acts as coach of the team. He or she provides training and
motivation to reach the desired goals
Maximizing their teams’ capability and capacity
Solving challenges by finding experiences that show that
old patterns do not fit or work
Characterstics
37. Excellent at communicating new ideas
Good at balancing short-term vision and long-term goals
Experience building strong coalitions and establishing
mutual trust
Accept new ideas
They have integrity and high emotional intelligence
(empathy with others)
Pros
38. Ineffective in initial stage or ad-hoc situations
Require an existing structure to fix
Bad fit in bureaucratic structures
Cons
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