As Napoleon Bonaparte had once expressed, 'a leader is a dealer of hopes'. The essence of leadership is the ability to have great analytical skills. A leader is necessarily is a great visionary. A good leader has the ability to choose the best people to accomplish difficult tasks and he also has the patience to guide his subordinates.
There are various approaches that can prove to be very helpful to achieve the goals by motivating people and implementing your plans. These various approaches are different styles of leadership. If you blend all these styles as per your needs you can emerge as a good leader.
The authoritarian or autocratic style of leadership is characterized by what is usually called as 'bossing the people around.' Without paying any heed to the advice given by the followers if you are pushing your way through then it is an example of authoritarian or autocratic leadership.
Authoritative style of leadership is quite helpful if you have all the necessary information or if you are running short of time. At such time one needs to delegate the task authoritatively. This style is not to be confused with the idea of yelling and threatening your followers with your power. It is certainly a malpractice to use your power and authority to abuse the team members.
This kind of leadership style should be used on rare occasions and that too with great care. You tend to loose your demeanor while applying this type of leadership.
The second and the most popular style of leadership is participative or democratic. As the name suggests this style of thinking allows the followers in the team to participate in decision making.
This style allows the participant to decide what to do and how it should be done. The decision making of course is done by the leader. Using this style of leadership is not at a sign of weakness but a strength.
This leadership style should be preferred when you do not have all the information needed to decide a plan. Your colleagues having the desired information can help you decide the best possible plan.
This style of leadership has twofold benefits it allows you work closely with your followers and at the same time helps maintain an amicable relationship with them.
This partial freedom is given in delegatory or free reign style of leadership. As a leader is unable to reach everywhere at all times this type of leadership becomes quite essential in some situations.
This style in no way allows you to blame your team for failure of a job. This style is to be used only when you have full confidence in your followers. Use it sparingly and wisely.
A good leader is one who uses all these styles with dexterity as situation demands.
While deciding which style should be applied a good leader takes into consideration points like how much time is on hand, the internal conflicts in group, the stress level, the type of work to be accomplished, how well informed the co-workers are and how much trust can be put into them.
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