Leadership Styles and Managerial Skills

This presentation discusses various leadership styles, including democratic, autocratic, laissez-faire, strategic, transformational, and transactional leadership. It also highlights the essential managerial skills required for effective management.

Personal and professional
development

 A Leadership style is consider as a leader’s method that motivates the people and gives
direction and implementing plans.
 Mentions below are some of leadership styles
 Democratic Leadership- Here leaders makes the decisions that are relied on input of each
team members. Each and every staff member has an equal say regarding project direction. It is
one of the effective leadership styles as it enables lower level workers to exercise authority
that can be used wisely within future.
 Leaders boosts the creativity as employees are highly engaged within projects as well as
decisions. As an outcome, team members of firm have high productivity and high job
satisfaction.
 Within democratic style leaders trust as well as promote cooperation from employees as well
as team spirit. It enables for creativity as well as assists staff members grow as well as
develop.
Leadership styles

 Autocratic leadership- It is known as inverse of the democratic leadership as
within this style leaders of the firm makes decisions without taking any input from
other employees or they makes decisions without consulting their staff members.
 This style will be relevant when there is a need of the quick decision making. One
of the main advantage is that time spent on the vital decisions are decreased. Also
mistakes within implementation of plans can be decreased.
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 Laissez Fair Style- It is a type of the leadership style that can be known as the
opposite end of the autocratic style. This style includes the least amount of
oversight.
 Strategic leadership- Here leaders can sit at the interaction between firm’s growth
opportunities and main operations.
 It is known as the desirable style of leadership within several firms due to the
strategic thinking supports various types of staff members.
 Here leaders who operates within such ay can also set dangerous precedent as how
many people supports them as well as what are the best directions for the firm if
each and everyone is getting their way.
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 Transformational leadership- It is consider as always improving as well as
transferring upon the firm’s conventions.
 Here workers might have a basic sets of goals and task that they have to finish
every month or week but instead of that leaders regularly pushing them to leave
their comfort zone.
 It is considered as a highly boosting form of leadership among the firms that are
growth minded as it motivates staff members to see whatever they are capable of.
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 Transactional leadership- This style is one of the common style as here managers
can rewards their staff members for work they do.
 This leadership also assists establish responsibilities and roles for each worker but
at the same time it also boosts bare minimum work if worker know that how much
efforts is worth. Such leadership styles also utilize incentives programs so that it
can motivates the staff members.
 Also they must be regularly with the firm’s goals and objectives that aids the
growth of the firm also
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 Leadership- In order to becomes an effective manager there is a requirement to be
capable to lead workers within more efficient manner. There is a lot of
responsibility that comes with a manager as well as leads a team also. They also
follows the instructions which is given by leaders.
 Experience- If a manager do not have an experience as an working professional
and leads a team will surely hard for them to manage a team. So one of the great
way to gain experience within a management role is to do volunteer either within
field or another field. Every field provides some experiences.
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Managers skills and characteristics

 Knowledge- As a manager there is a need of the experience and also knowledge
also plays a vital role. As without the knowledge manager unable to deal with
several things that occurs within workplace. So knowledge is must as there are
several degrees in project management, ethics, Human Resource and many more.
 Time Management- There is another key factor within being successful manager
within time management. Time management is consider as important when it
comes prioritizing things as well as makes surest that meetings will be finished on
time, office came on time and focuses on those project first that are urgent and
important.
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 Delegation- If a person do not understands the meaning of delegate then it will be
very difficult to play as a role of manager. A manager will not afraid of their
workers to ask them for help regarding for competing task. As a manager it is
easier to do work through himself but if there is shortage of time and projects is
important then help is must from other workers within firm
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Books and journals
 Bratton, J. ed., 2020. Organizational leadership. SAGE Publications Limited.
 Shields, C.M., 2020. Transformative leadership. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia
of Education.
 Ladkin, D., 2020. Rethinking leadership: A new look at old questions. Edward
Elgar Publishing.
 Robbins, B. and Davidhizar, R., 2020. Transformational leadership in health care
today. The Health Care Manager, 39(3), pp.117-121.
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