Leadership Styles You Should Know!
Leadership styles are behavioral adaption to specific market situation. The more you’re able to execute leadership styles to specific situations the more valuable you’re for industries and companies.
[emaillocker id=”62228″]| Style | Characteristics | When Useful | Weaknesses |
| Coercive | Leader gives orders and expects to be obeyed | Turnaround Situations Disasters Dealing with problem employees | Inhibits organisation flexibility Weakens employeed motivation |
| Authoritative | Leader establishes goal and pushes people to follow | Business is adrift and needs direction Business is in a downturn | Leader’s goal may not be the best one. Experts may disagree with the leader |
| Affiliative | Leader assumes a “people comes first attitude”. | Need to build team cohesion Need to raise low morale | May allow poor employee performance unchecked Employee may not have sense of direction |
| Democractic | Leader gives employees role in decision-making. | Need to build organisational flexibility and responsibility | May result in indecision and a sense of confusion |
| Pacesetting | Leader sets high performance standards | Highly motivated employees can work on their own. | May feel overwhelming for employees who cannot attain the standards |
| Coaching | Leader focuses on personal development | Employees want to change and improve personally | Not successful when employees are resistant to change |