Authentic Leadership: Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis

Authentic Leadership

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
‘What are the leadership lessons that we can learn from the current Coved-19 crisis?...............1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Authentic Leadership is considered as an approach to leadership which highlights
developing legitimacy of leaders by honest relation with followers that value its input as well as
are develop upon an ethical foundation (Leroy and et. al., 2020). Usually, this kind of leaders is
optimistic individuals with faithful self concepts who promote openness. Moreover, it often
provides its overall minds as well as hearts of the specific cause. For instance, team spirit and
loyalty may spread across entity, that outcomes into higher morale as well as gaining extra
ordinary outcomes. Authentic Leadership starts with the leader’s awareness that allows him to
build positive relationships and inspire and encourage employees in the right ways. An
atmosphere of openness is key. According to George, one of the core qualities of a leadership
role is authenticity. Without actually being authentic, a leader will never be able to appear as if
he is. It requires a leader to be self-aware and have the ability to recognise and acknowledge his
own strengths and weaknesses. Also, this motivates trust into its groups. The aim of this report to
analyse the issue that organisation should response to the crisis. The topics which are going to be
discussed in this report is effective leadership model that are use as mind map.
MAIN BODY
‘What are the leadership lessons that we can learn from the current Coved-19 crisis?
Leadership is important in a company for effective people management in an orgaistaion. It
helps in forming and maintaining organisational behaviour which helps in increasing
performance and overall productivity. There are various leadership styles which helps in
managing people as per the requirement of situation. These styles are autocratic, democratic,
laissez faire which helps leader in authorising and delegating work in teams and organisation.
Leaders exercises control in decision making and directs behaviour of people with the help of
influencing and motivating. This helps company in driving and implementing change in an
orgaistaion. Thus, leadership is an important skill for managing people of a company with
diversity of talent. It involves various traits for managing and leading people such as integrity,
respect, honesty, decisiveness and other essential traits. Communication plays an important role
in leading and channelising group of people in right direction to ascertain team goals in a
company. It helps in developing values and motivating people of an organisation. Leadership is
important for a company to achieve team goals and ascertain require change in work culture. It
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helps in shaping right behaviours for accomplishing of work and coordinating efforts. This leads
to enhance performance and commitment towards company. Leadership is considered as both
research area as well as practical competencies that encompass the capability of person, team and
firm for leading, influencing or guiding and other group, individuals or whole entity. Moreover,
authentic leadership is defined as management style in which individuals act in real as well as
sincere manner through being true to itself. Also, these type of leaders are undertaken to be
effective in respect of motivating the faith and loyalty among followers which outcomes in
efficient staff performance (Wenger and Herne, 2020). This is also being believed that leaders
which are authentic bring efficacious longer standing thoughts that are being document as part of
modern leadership. Along with this, the global pandemic as well as related economical crisis
have thrown world off course, considering them into uncharted territory. Within these crisis
circumstances, individuals are operating firms often revert to type. Also, they have to undertake
narrow view as well as try to be in comfort zones within extreme uncertainty faces. The COVID-
19 crisis has developed various complexities to leadership. As crisis management have effective
scripts to obey as well as various leaders into huge firms are prepared should their application be
essential. It also understand the various unique risks for its operations, areas or market which
might pose as well as are ready for addressing cyber security breach or hurricane which might
interrupts enterprises as usual. In addition to this, the COVID-19 crisis also shows few essential
lessons in order to lead during crisis are credibility, team work, stamina and many more (CRISIS
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM COVID-19, 2020).
Therefore, for respective circumstances, situational leadership theory is applied as it does
not associate to specific kind of leader or claim that anyone style is effective. Also, this focus
upon effectiveness of situational variable as well as do not undertakes any other style of leaders
to be better in comparison to others. Additionally, this is regarded as a integration of two factors
leadership style as well as maturity levels of followers.
Crisis management is very important for the well developed script and it has to be followed
properly. There are several leaders within large organisations who are managing their work in
effective manner for controlling the business activities. It is essential to understand the risks
within market, location and operations. In context of COVID 19 scenario, it is concluded that
there is need to have a predetermined crisis team and development of relationships with experts.
This has helped in managing the work at the time of risk. It is also essential that while managing
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