Strategic Leadership: Role, Components, and Leadership Style

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
Strategic Leadership....................................................................................................................................2
Components of Strategic Leadership.......................................................................................................4
Role played by strategic leader................................................................................................................5
Leadership style.......................................................................................................................................5
Actions taken to lead the team...............................................................................................................7
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................9
References.................................................................................................................................................10
Appendix...................................................................................................................................................12
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Appendix 2.............................................................................................................................................12
Appendix 3.............................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
Strategic leadership is defined as the process of motivating the employees with the use
of strategy in order to achieve the organization goals. It is a practice in which leaders use
different styles of leadership to lead the team or group towards the vision of the organization
so that organization can compete in the changing environment. The main aim of the strategic
leadership is to boost up the productivity of the employees and push them towards achieving
the standard. Furthermore, strategic leadership promotes innovation and creativity in the
organization through cultivating an environment that brings positivity (Finkelstein, Hambrick, &
Cannella, 2009).
The role of a strategic leader is to lead the organization in a common direction, to take
difficult decisions, to engage employees in the organization, to adapt and identify the
opportunities in the market and to balance the overall organization through strategy
formulation and implementation (Bergh, Aguinis, & Heavey, 2016).
The essay is based on the leadership styles that are used by a strategic leader in order to
lead the group or team towards a common goal. The essay describes the role of a strategic
leader in an organization and how all this impact on the strategic management process. The
essay includes the information on a leadership style used to lead 57 employees in an
organization so that they can contribute best to their ability under the leadership of a strategic
leader. The style that can be used by the strategic leader is transformational leadership style
and this is discussed below in brief.
Strategic Leadership
Strategic leadership is related to the potential of a leader or manager to express the
strategic vision of the organization and to influence others to work towards achieving that
vision. The term strategic means the ability to do long term planning to achieve the goals or
systematic efforts of the team to achieve common objective (Heracleous & Papachroni, 2016).
Strategic leadership is all about planning, assisting and make them realize others their goals and

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objectives. In order to be an effective strategic leader following traits are needed; Loyalty of
leader towards the organization vision is an essential trait, judicious use of power in order to
complete the work from others, readiness of leader to delegate the responsibilities to others,
strategic leader also possess the ability to control disturbing element and situation (Marshall,
2019). Furthermore, a strategic leader should have the potential to deal with the difficult
situation and to make others motivate towards achieving goal with enthusiasm and
determination (Schoemaker, Krupp, & Howland, 2013).
The concept of strategic leadership is based on several principles that are distribution of
responsibility, systematic sharing of information, transparency, developing and presenting
ideas, acceptance of failure, provide access to other strategists, tackle the most demanding
situations and problems, innovative solutions and cultivating opportunities for others. These
principles help in developing the ability of a strategic leader to follow the strategic leadership in
an organization. The benefits related to the concept of strategic leadership include utilizing
carefully constructed ideas to move forward and focusing on the short term vision as well as
the long-term actions to achieve the strategic goals (Taylor & Storey, 2016).
The strategic leadership framework provides more clarity in taking the decision because
it helps in setting of the benchmarks of which actions are measured. The subordinates have a
roadmap in front of them which guides them in taking the necessary actions. Furthermore,
strategic leadership focuses on the whole organization as the entire organization will move
towards in the same goal rather than a narrow focus on specific sections. Overall, strategic
leadership add more value and clarity to the operations in the organization and having clear
vision will make it easier for employees to understand the things (Carnall & Roebuck, 2015).
Strategic leadership just not only focuses on the decision making aspect and operational
structure of the organization but focus also on values and organizational culture. Moreover, the
strategic leadership creates an action plan that includes a set of goals and objectives which are
well defined. All this develop a scenario where each of these goals can be measured and
through that the organization can create a stronger understanding in leader and employees of