Situational Leadership Theory

The workers will perform their best once they realize the management understands them which enhance their morale to perform the best. This results to the success of the whole organization. Emotional intelligence is a wide area which involves various components such as: Self-awareness which a basic element in emotional intelligence as it enables one to have a deeper understanding of his strengths, emotions, needs, drives and weaknesses. People with an understanding of self-awareness know how their feelings may affect them, other people as well as their job performance. Such people understand customer’s impact on their moods and deeper reasons for their frustrations.

Those can give the followers greater ownership, responsibilities, formulation of collective vision that will serve both the followers and organization stakeholders. Establishing the methodologies to have measurable indicators will help to learn the complexities of transformational leadership.(SURESH & Rajini,

However, there are strengths and limitations of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, some strengths are that it emphasises choice such as free will and responsibility

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.

These people need to have good external experiences to combat any negative feelings and thoughts that they have [7]. A key factor for an individual is to have a good self-esteem level that even current studies admit that this can be a sign of being able to resist the pressure from their social environment such as facing and resisting the use of substances of abuse

the management successfully in his organization. Good leaders build a system that provide their employees to produce quality product and other services in a most efficient way. They always develop their mission statement very clear and give the clear direction and vision in the organization. Managing changes in any organization means that include people for work differently and give them motivation to change their behavior. The effective leaders utilizing different leadership’s theories to change the style of organization.

It is concluded that strategic lenses are essential in strategic development. Managers may choose a suitable lens to approach problems faced in an organization. The design lens is a more rational and logical approach rather than intuitive. The experience lens is view base on a collective of experience in an organization and strongly maintain organizational culture. In comparison to experience lens, the idea lens is the collective of innovative ideas from managers, periphery and top down of the organization.

Specific ways in which the build theory can be advantageous include, an increase in innovative learning and greater cognitive flexibility (Garland, Frederickson, Kring, Johnson, Meyer, & Penn, 2010). Cognitive flexibility, in particular, is extremely important because it serves as a catalyst for improving skills such as accurate problem solving and improved creativity or brainstorming. Applying the broaden and build theory into my own experience completing the intervention was unequivocally that most valuable part. More specifically, the act of physically writing to someone and expressing my gratitude and thanks allowed me to connect with others and even embark upon new challenges, two quintessential aspects of the broaden theory. For example, during the third intervention I wrote an e-mail to a man by the name of Christian LeBlanc.

Nevertheless, Participative/ democratic leadership is, in my opinion, a great form of leadership. It not only includes workers with their opinions and gives importance to workers and the feeling of being of value to the company. It still provides structure and clarity based on the clear separation in final decisions by management. I believe that management and employees need to work as a team to be successful. As such manager should include employees in updates, information flow, even creation of workflow and goal setting.

Good Leaders admit their mistakes to be able to improve. I must admit that as leader is not easy to make a mistake, but if we accepted it in the right way, we can turn that experience into an opportunity of growth. “What’s Your Leadership Orientation?” With this exercise I got the opportunity to discover the type of leadership orientation that best fitted my personality, which is Task-Oriented leadership. I learned that Task-Oriented leaders are focused mainly in getting the job done and can be a bit autocratic.

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts” ~ John Wooden. Considered to be one of the greatest coaches of all time, guiding the UCLA men’s basketball team to 10 NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including a record seven in a row; Wooden and others have attributed his success, in large part, to his abilities as a leader. His adaptive and situational leadership philosophy largely focuses on how to respond in the face of adversity, and how to prepare for success overtime. Additionally, the wisdom of Wooden’s words are not limited to the basketball court; they can be applied to all areas of life – especially business.