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Innovative leadership
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Theory Definition/Characteristics Examples
Trait Leadership According to Nichols & Cottrell (2014), the trait
leadership theory is considered to be the first modern
theory on leadership. It is based on a notion that
leaders are born as leaders. It is because of this
notion possess the appropriate traits and qualities are
suited for better leadership. The theory addresses the
behavioral attributes that are found to be shared in
leaders.
In particular, Friedman (2017) states that the theory
is focused on the difference between followers and
leaders. With the specific assumption that in
leadership positions, people would display more
qualities as compared to those in subordinate
positions. Relatively, few traits create a difference
between them. Leaders are high on self-confidence,
height, extroversion while the differences would be
minor.
For instance, in case the leader is introverted, then he
would usually be timid, would exhibit terrible social
skills, and wouldn't have the ability to lead its
followers. Unlike this, he would be extroverted, them
he would be outgoing, will have a huge ego, and be
straight-forward. Smart leaders take responsibility for
things and never blame people around for anything.
They always stand by success and are accountable for
their mistakes.
Moreover, leaders who effectively pay great attention
Self-confidence,
Determination,
Integrity, Intelligence,
People skills, Task
competence, Creative,
motivate others,
Assertiveness, and
Decisiveness.

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to the members of their group, and they genuinely
care about helping them to succeed. In the group,
they want every person to manage and play a
significant role in moving the group forward. Also,
an influential leader has control over their emotions,
and neither do they overreact or get distracted easily.
Last but least, in the trait theory of leadership,
influential leaders have an urge to succeed and also
help the group achieve its goals. Such leaders stick
with the goals even at times when things tend to get
complicated or uncertain. They genuinely care about
the group's success and always are ready to help the
group reach these milestones. Nevertheless, best
leaders are goal-oriented and brave. Never do they
hid from the challenges.
Behavioral
Leadership
In the behavioral leadership approach, the focus is
on the actual action and behavior of the leaders and
not merely on their features or qualities. Verma
(2018) defines that this approach depicts that the
leaders use three skills for leading their followers.
Such skills are human, technical, and conceptual. The
technical skills refer to the knowledge of the process
of technique; the human is the ability to interact with
people, and last but not least conceptual is the idea of
the manager enabling him to set up a design plan and
model.
This approach has an assumption that the
manager's particular behavior makes him a good
leader, while its opposite could discard him as a
leader. Determination of goals, the motivation of
Motivating, Supporting
& Effective.

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employees for goal achievement, the ability of
effective communication for effective interaction and
building team spirit, etc. are the functional behavior
of a leader who is successful.
The behavioral theory of leadership emphasizes on
the fact that the leader's desirable behavior provides a
higher level of satisfaction to the followers, and they
address him as their leader. But there is a limitation
with this approach that a particular action or behavior
could be useful or relevant at a given point of time.
While at another, it must be ineffective or
irrelevant. In this approach, thus, the factor of 'time'
is a vital element that is not being considered. This
theory promotes the leadership style values
emphasizing concern for collaboration and people.
Further, it encourages team development and
decision making by supporting the needs of an
individual. Further, it helps managers in evaluation
and understanding of how their style of behavior
influences their relationship as a manager with the
team. Also, it promotes contribution to the goal of the
organization and commitment. Therefore, it can be
said that this theory helps managers in finding the
right balance between different leadership styles. In
addition to this, it helps them in deciding to behave
as a leader.
Now, the two most common theories of leadership
will come every time we talk about Theories of
Behavioural Leadership, Michigan Leadership