The Four Leadership Theories

But first, you should have clarity of your own identity and knowledge. Once you have your own foundation with being a leader, I think that as a leader you can transition and understand the behavior of others that may be on your team. When acknowledging others on the team, I think that it is important to identify strengths and weaknesses of others and the team. As you can see, I have outlined what I believe makes a great and effective leader.

An orgainisation is based on the management’s philosophy, values, vision and goals. Theses objectives drive the orgainisation, the culture of the orgainisation has an impact on the type of leadership, communication and departmental dynamics. Staff should be aware of this and use it to base their work ethics and motivation on. The outcome should then be job satisfaction nad growth for the individual team members as well as the team as a whole. A leader needs to adapt to situations and use techniques that are inclusive in order to avoid conflict and aids decision-making.

In conclusion, we must have strong leaders to run a strong company. I portray a more participative style of leadership, tending to involve followers and decision-making. Leadership styles can change depending on the situation in these needs to be taken into consideration. Becoming a leader takes a strong individual who is able to gain the respect of its followers and point them in the right

The Philosophy of Transformational Leadership According to Grant (2012) transformational leadership is a philosophy that conveys a vision and creates action for change that focuses followers’ awareness on their contributions and mission accomplishment. Transformational leaders are known to be passionate and are able to articulate their vison to motivate followers. Roueche, Baker III, and Rose, (2014) suggest that a transformational leader is able to engage the follower in a manner that allows communication of needs to be reciprocal in nature. The process involved in the philosophy of transformational leadership, allows for the superior to coach or mentor followers.

ANALYSIS OF LEADERSHIP STYLES AND MUSKS’ LEADERSHIP STYLE 2.1 Introduction to leadership An effective leader is someone who knows how to inspire and relate to subordinates, knows how to increase the employees’ motivation and make employees loyal to the organization. (Alkahtani, 2015) Leadership style is the approach an individual use to steer people in the direction that they are going in. Analysis has identified a range of leadership styles based on the number of followers. the most applicable leadership style depends on the operate of the leader, the followers and also the situation.

Nevertheless, it is relevant to reinforce that team effectiveness is not entirely explained by team leadership. This being said, one can say that the pivotal assertion of functional leadership theory is that team conditions imply certain decisive leadership behaviours for success (Zaccaro et al., 2001). By saying that “leadership processes influence team effectiveness by their effects on four sets of team processes: cognitive, motivational, effective, and coordination” (Zaccaro et al., 2001:453), these researchers helped to break ground for processes calibration within the functional

Leadership Philosophy SGL SSG Apayo SGT Galdouf, Elsamani ALC Class 17-002 Personal Leadership Philosophy Leadership is a privilege that would come with tremendous responsibilities, and leadership is accountability to encourage and inspire others to lead and direct others to accomplish the duty and achieved the organization visions and goals. By empowering subordinates and other leaders to be able to implement decisions that are very crucial for leaders to develop and enhance future leaders in the organization. For me as a leader, I will always welcome any opportunity that would enable my team to work collaboratively with your peers and your subordinates throughout the organization. My current assignment as Command Language Program Manager, I have a duty and responsibilities of all aspects of development, implementing, and managing of the Command Language Program.

Transactional leadership. Transactional leadership is described as managerial leadership because it emphasizes the supervisory role, as well as the organization and group’s performance (Odumeru & Ifeanyi, 2013). Transactional leadership is also described as an exchange of the leader’s interest and followers’ expectations involving commitment, respect, and trust (Paracha, Qamar, Mirza, Hassan, & Waqas, 2012). Transactional leadership has been defined as a leader creating clear structures and rewards employees will receive for following orders (Ruggieri & Scaffidi Abbate, 2013). Transactional leadership, however, was described as persuading and influencing followers by setting targets and promising rewards for preferred performance (Stoffers & Mordant-Dols, 2015).

There are many different views and perceptions on leadership and what it exactly means. This is because there are many different types of leaders and many different views on them. But the basic meaning of leadership is an individual who can select the right group of followers and influence them through their distinct gifts, abilities, skills and knowledge. A leader focuses on the follower and puts out a roadmap to the overall mission and vision; hereby the follower is influenced to willingly and enthusiastically in achieving the mission and vision. The leader achieves this influence by humbly delivering a visionary perception of the future in clear terms that resonates with the follower in terms of their believes and values.

a) Leadership is a process, (b) leadership involves influence, (c) leadership occurs in groups, and (d) leadership involves common goals. Leadership is a process whereby an individual influence a group of individuals to achieve a common goal according to (Northouse,2013). Leadership is about inspiring people to a good cause rather than holding positions of formal authority. I will apply my servant leadership practice by striving to incorporate the open-door policy to communicate effectively with my team. Have awareness to the daily operations and follow up with my staff.

Week two talks about leadership qualities. Leadership is how an individual influences another individual or groups to achieve a common purpose. For a leader to achieve its set purpose or vision towards individual, organization, or a group, influence is the aim. Influence, therefore is the ability to direct or indirect manipulation to get others to act or respond in accordance to a leader’s want or desires. When a leader leads, the leader will often times have the people he or she is leading conform to his or her ways of doing things or at least agrees with the leader, which in this case regard as being obedience.

A true leader is capable of inspiring others and influencing them to work together to achieve a common goal. There are different ways to look at leadership and we have discussed multiple ways in class. There are different leadership theories the LEAD scholars class has discussed including leadership and power,

My advice to Laszlo Bock would be to know and understand what each member of the team has to offer. It is important for a leader to know what his or her team members are capable of doing and the resources and support they need to accomplish set goals. I feel that Bock should appoint team leaders to interact with each of the “thirds” and establish a common goal for each group to work towards. The group should also understand each other’s contributions and recognize each groups special skill sets and how they relate to the team goal. Leaders will be constantly working with groups to prepare them for projects, conflict resolution, reviewing their goals and achievements and also encouraging collaboration and team building activities.