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Leadership styles

Leadership Styles:

Directing - Telling others what to do


Facilitating – coordinating
Coaching – instructing
Supporting – helping or providing assistance
Autocratic – making/taking decisions without inputs
Consultative – seeks ideas of others
Consensus – decision made on the agreement of the group

When the style What the leader


Leadership style Aims for Impact
is effective might say
To heal rifts,
Promotes friendly 'It's important
strengthen bonds
interaction and that we get along
Affiliative Harmony or encourage
links people and see this
people to ride out
together through together.'
tough times
To lead change
'This is where we
Clear direction Moves people and establish
are going and
Authoritative/Visionary and shared towards shared vision and a
why.'
standards goals sense of common
'Come with me.'
purpose
To help
Makes the
individual team
connections 'How can I
members make
Development of between personal support your
Coaching an effective
staff and team learning?'
contribution and
development and 'Try this.'
perform at their
goals
best
To deal with a
Tight control 'You must do this
crisis or to kick-
Immediate reliant on now.'
Coercive start a
compliance negative 'Do what I tell
fundamental
feedback you.'
turnaround
Build Values individual To build
'What do you
Democratic commitment and input and gains consensus and
think?'
elicit ideas commitment shared ownership
To get even
Sets challenging
better results 'This is the way
goals and models
Pacesetting High standards from a motivated to do it.'
high performance
and competent 'Do what I do.'
behavior
team

Not all of the leadership styles (listed on the previous screen) have a positive impact on the
organizational climate: coercive and pacesetting styles generally don't and are only useful in special
circumstances.

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