Leadership Styles and Qualities: Situational, Transactional, Transformational, Servant, and Competencies within an Organisation

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Situational leadership...................................................................................................................3
Transactional and transformational leadership............................................................................3
Reference.....................................................................................................................................4
Importance of transformational leadership..................................................................................4
Behaviour of transformational leadership....................................................................................4
Self efficacy.................................................................................................................................5
Increasing personal effectiveness as leader................................................................................5
Qualities of servant leadership ....................................................................................................6
Competencies within an organisation..........................................................................................6
Ways to strengthen and cultivate the work relations...................................................................9
Description of leadership style from a personal perspective.......................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is the capability of an individual to influence and guide the group of people.
They help in generating efficient level work. It includes making tough decisions and creating a
clear vision to attain the desired goals and objectives. This report deals with the different types of
leaders and the qualities and skills required to become one.
MAIN BODY
Situational leadership
Situational leadership is a style of leadership where the leader will adapt to the ways of
leading which will suit the current work place and its employees. This leadership is not
dependent on the skills posses by a leader but is based on its capabilities to adjust according to
the needs and requirements of the organisation, in order to become a much more effective leader.
Leader have to adapt to different styles of leadership with regard to the given task, people and
the ongoing project. Leader following the situational leadership will evaluate the organisation
and adjust according to the ways of leading to meet the needs and requirements of team as well
as the organisation (Thompson and Glasø, 2018). They will implement more adaptability and
flexibility into their leadership during the time of assessing the situation. This marks for a
leadership which is most appropriate and successful. Some characteristics of situational
leadership are, being flexible by constantly adjusting to a different leadership style to suit the
current situation. They encourage the employees and team members to be more self reliant while
promoting their participation in the decision making process. Situational leadership is about
delegating the tasks to different team members and become better under guidance of leader.
References
Thompson, G. and Glasø, L., 2018. Situational leadership theory: a test from a leader-follower
congruence approach. Leadership & Organization Development Journal.
Transactional and transformational leadership
Transactional leadership style is the one in which employees are rewarded as well as
punished in order to motivate the team members (Wright, 2017). Whereas transformational
leadership is where the leader is looking for charisma and enthusiasm which will help in
inspiring the members of the team. In transactional style of leadership, leader puts more focus on

its relation with all the team members. These leaders are reactive in nature and are best suited in
a more settled work place. Transformational leaders give more importance to the values, ideas
and morals along with the needs and requirements of the individuals of the team. They are more
proactive and are thus, best for turbulent work environment.
Reference
Wright, E.S., 2017. Dialogic development in the situational leadership style. Performance
Improvement. 56(9). pp.27-31.
Importance of transformational leadership
Transformational leadership is the best way to encourage, inspire and motivate the
employees in order to make them perform effectively and moving forward by creating some
meaningful change. This leadership style results in producing a much more engaged workforce
which is important in empowering others to innovate and shape the organisation with a better
future success (Lewis, Boston and Peterson, 2017). They transform the individuals of the team to
experience self actualisation and personal interests with the sake of the organisation. Such
leaders will nurture the team while developing values and principles.
References
Lewis, E., Boston, D. and Peterson, S., 2017. A global perspective of transformational
leadership and organizational development. Journal of Research Initiatives. 2(3). p.5.
Behaviour of transformational leadership
Transformational leaders exhibit many behaviours such as idealised influence as they
serve as a role model for the team members and are admired for the same. Transformational
leader will built in qualities which they desire to offered by the team. They built in values which
are followed by the team members with the help of learning and internalising. They are
consistent in vision and values. Inspirational motivation where the leader challenges the team to
get out of their comfort zone and maintain the optimism in the future goals and provide meaning
in the task (Provenzano‐Hass, 2017). They inspire employees to improve their outcomes and
foster sense of purpose in employees. They are intellectual stimulation where they will
encourage more creativity from the employees and challenge them to reach new limits. They aim
for consistent innovation. Last is individual consideration where leader will attend the needs of