Leadership Styles

There are 7 most common Leadership styles and each one of them has its own time and place. The best of leaders knows how and when to flex from one style to another depending on the situation they face.  Autocratic The autocratic leader makes all the decisions without any input from team members or explanations. It’s also known as the command and control approach. This leadership style is becoming less and less used in the modern leadership world Authoritative Authoritative leaders maps the way, sets the followers expectation, whilst engaging and energising followers along the way. Pacesetter Pacesetters are driven who sets high standards, leading by example, and expects everyone to up their game to at least achieve the same high standards Democratic Democratic leaders engage all team members and…

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Leadership and Trust

To trust someone is to have a firm belief in their reliability, truthfulness and their ability. It is a dynamic interpersonal link between people with unique implications for organisations and its employees. It is the belief where one can rely on another person’s actions, words and that they have good intentions of sticking to their given promises. Trust is most meaningful when one party is vulnerable or at risk to another party, which makes it critical for relationships between a leader and a follower, whom have different roles, levels of status and power. Because trust is a relational concept which occurs between different people, both the leader and follower play a crucial role in creating and sustaining a trusting relationship. Trust, between leaders and followers, is developed through a dynamic…

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Leadership and Purpose

Purpose is the most crucial aspect of leadership as it starts with leading oneself before leading others. Purpose is a foundational aspect thereby. There are five qualities in finding your purpose, all interrelated, awareness, respect, morality, vision, and understanding. Whilst awareness enhances the quality of your decisions, respect ensures proper treatment of others, morality enables you to consider and deal with consequences of your decisions, your vision guides your path and attracts others to it and an understanding to help us adjust our directions if you find it’s becoming unfulfilling. Purposeless living is an aimless drift with no satisfactory landing over time When discussing leadership, the theme of the conversation is usually around profits, stakeholders, strategy, operations or expansion growth plans. We discuss the purpose of developing a new product,…

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