Leadership: Qualities, Styles and Areas of Improvement

This article discusses the qualities, styles and areas of improvement for effective leadership. It covers topics like transformational leadership, transactional leadership, participative leadership, and servant leadership.

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Leadership
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Introduction:
Leadership can be defined that the capacity of people to lead others towards achievement
of a predetermined targets. As per Putra (pg 85-96) mentions that leaders have certain qualities
like focus, self-confidence, motivation and management which enable them to lead their
subordinates towards attainment of goals. Williams mentions that decision making quality is one
of the most important qualities of leaders which enable them to lead their followers. The leaders
follow different styles of leadership depending upon situations to lead their subordinates like
participative leadership styles and transformative leadership styles. The leaders require to assess
their leadership skills and develop new skills to be able to lead their subordinates successfully.
Areas of leadership strengths and areas of improvements:
The leader’s survey shows that the leader under study follows several leadership styles
like transformational leadership style, transactional leadership style, management by exception
and laissez faire. However, his leadership style in general exhibits transformational leadership
styled. As far as leadership qualities are concerned, the leader under question exhibits four
qualities. The first quality is transparency in relationship with the team members. This can be
aligned with the transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style which are
followed in the team. The survey shows that the leader maintain strong relationship with the
team members which helps him to lead his team efficiently. The leader also exhibits high degree
of moral strength which means he is very strong ethically. The survey also shows that the
balanced processing and self-awareness are the two other qualities the leader possess. However,
as far as the survey is concerned, he shows a very low score on self-awareness
(Yahaya and Fawzy pg 190-126). The leader is required to improve his self-awareness by
attending self-awareness courses and reading articles, books and journals on the subject. The

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survey also shows that the leader under question exhibits a high degree of free style leadership.
This means that it would create lack of coordination in his team as he would lose control over the
team. This would ultimately hamper the performance of the team and lead of inefficient
operation. The leader must improve his leadership style and incorporate participative leadership
style which leading his followers (Putra pg 85-96). He should hold more meeting while forming
the target achievement strategies and encourage his team members to participate in the strategy
formation. This would help him to improve his control over his team and boost the performance
of the latter.
The third survey shows clearly that the leader enjoys strong relationship with his team
members and compensates them appropriate for their performances. The leader under question
holds the prestige and security of the team high. The leader exercises low degree of authority
over the team (Saleem pg 563-569). As far as areas of improvement are concerned, one can point
out that the leader needs to increase his authority over his team which would enable him to
control his team better. This would also improve the performance of his team. The leader can
seek guidance from the senior managers to improve his performances and control over his team.
The leader under question exhibits a high degree of stakeholder responsibility. The
survey shows that the leader holds qualities like emotional healing. The leader takes into
consideration benefits of the society and empowering of the communities while forming
strategies. He bestows due importance on empowering his subordinates which points out to
participative leadership. The leader under question exhibits high degree of skills and puts
subordinates first. He behaves ethically and supports subordinates (Putra pg 85-96). Thus, it can
be inferred from the discussion that his leadership style incorporates both participative and
servant leadership styles.

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Conclusion:
Thus, it can concluded that the leaders is a good leader and encourages high team team
performances. He motivates his team members to participate in forming strategies to achieve
targets and compensates appropriately for their efficiency. However, it can be also pointed out
that the leader is required to increase his control and authority over his team. This would boost
team performance. He must also plan to train his subordinates to improve their knowledge and
skills. These strategies would strengthen his motive of empowerment of his team members and
strengthen his team performance.

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569.
Williams, Raymond. "Leadership for school reform: Do principal decision-making styles reflect
a collaborative approach?." Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy 53
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Yahaya, Rusliza, and Fawzy Ebrahim. "Leadership styles and organizational commitment:
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