Exploring Different Leadership Styles

This assignment delves into various leadership styles, including charismatic, transformational, contingency, and situational. The author analyzes each style, highlighting its key characteristics and providing personal reflections on their own leadership approach. Drawing on DuBrin's (2015) research findings, the document emphasizes the importance of adapting leadership strategies based on team needs and external factors.

Leadership a Critical Perspective
Charismatic leadership: a leader’s ability to inspire their team motivates their team to achieve
high performance (DuBrin, 2015). Inspirations involved the leader involving them and placing
full dedication towards their work to wind them member confidence. Charismatic leaders do not
shy away from working or setting an example and will quickly step in and get involved in a
process which may not be flowing correction and assist the team member to understand the
process and how to do the work. This is one of my strongest skills as I always prepared to share
my knowledge and understanding related to a topic. This helps me attract follower who are
inspired to learn from my experience and knowledge which helps makes them simplify the
career.
Transformational leadership: a transformational leader is one who involves the team towards
decision making and change implementation. These leaders understand the importance of their
team members and understand how change can affect the business negatively. This is another
trait I have since I also tend to consult my team and colleagues regarding different points which
help me gain a wider perspective regarding the decision. I usually proposals ideas and consult
with the team for their feedback and review before finalizing my decision. Colleague feedback
and insight is very important towards team development and I always involve the team before
making any major decision
Contingency Leadership: this form of leadership does not influence decision making or review
staff recommendations and focuses on allowing the business to operate based on internal and
external factors. This makes the internal and external factors a major factor which influences the
businesses operations and all stake holders are dependent on these factors. Internal and external
factors do have a direct effect on the business or decision thus evolution the internal and external
forces is something which I also do while evaluating team spirit and setting performance goals
Situational leadership: situational leadership involved leaders adjusting their leadership skills
based on the follower's needs. In most scenarios today new managers on a team will adopt the
situational leadership approach which would allow them to flow along with the team’s trends. I
do no belief a good leader should exploit their team and instead should begin expressing their
knowledge and approaches from the first day. This may not be taken well by the team at first but

gradually the team will begin understanding the approaches and begin adopting them. Adopting a
situation approach then imposing alternatives approaches later can result in losing team interest
and confidence.
Bibliography
DuBrin, A. J. (2015). Leadership: Research Findings, Practice, and Skills (8th ed.). Boston: Cengage
Learning.