Leadership Styles And Evaluating An Enhanced Approach

Introduction In this essay I will be reflecting on leadership styles and evaluating an enhanced approach. Leadership consists of people, authority, influence, change, direction, purpose and unified achievement (Youki, 2013). Leadership is needed throughout many situations in life, and without this there would be little unity and sense of direction within teams. To get a task completed there needs to be a person with the confidence to clearly and concisely convey what to do and who should do it. Therefore, to make a good leader it is essential to have good leadership. To ensure there is good leadership there needs to be a leadership style. Leadership style is â€Å"the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans and motivating†¦show more content†¦The study showed that based on how leaders lead their teams, each obtained different results. While constructing this study, autocratic, democratic and Laissez-Faire were the three styles of leadership that were identified. F rom the three identified it was clear that the autocratic was a far more superior style compared to the other two, with Laissez-Faire being the least superior style. Although the Lewin leadership style is an old style it is currently used as it can help leaders to adapt their leadership styles based on these findings. The autocratic style is where the leader makes all the decisions without involving the group (Steinburg, 2008). The leader will not actively participate with the group, and will just give clear directions to group members. This type of leader will sort out the tasks for the team and will not notify members of any future plans. Solely having the knowledge is what gives the leader the confidence to make decisions. The leader when evaluating team members gives praise and criticism freely, but it is given based on their own personal standards rather than based on an objective/unbiased standard (Combe, 2014). This leadership style works best where there is a strict time limit, so group decisions cannot be made or when the leader is knowledgeable enough which produces the confidence to make the best decision (Dam, 2007). I feel that this would not cause misunderstandings within the group as they will