Leadership Presentation: Theories, Styles, and Improving Effectiveness

This presentation delves into the multifaceted realm of leadership, dissecting its core elements and practical applications. It begins by defining leadership and outlining the key factors that shape effective leadership, including the leader, the follower, communication, and the situational context. The presentation then explores various leadership styles, such as autocratic, democratic, and delegative approaches, highlighting their characteristics and implications. Furthermore, it examines different types of leadership power, including coercive, reward, legitimate, referent, informational, and expert power, and how they influence organizational dynamics. The presentation also includes insights from Stephen Covey's '7 Habits of Highly Effective People', providing a framework for personal and professional development in leadership. The presentation concludes by offering guidance on how to develop leadership skills, including understanding leadership styles, encouraging creativity, serving as a role model, and effective listening and communication. The presentation is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of leadership principles and practices.

Leadership
Name of the Student
Name of the University

Leadership
 The ability of an organisation for guiding individuals, entire
organisations for vision development.
 This process helps a person to help in influencing others and gain
control over other individuals (Yukl, 2013).
 This process helps in accomplishment of objectives of
organisations or individuals (Tannenbaum & Schmidt, 2017).

Factors of Leadership

Four Factors of Leadership
There are four primary factors of leadership, which would be helpful
for the development of efficient leaders. These factors include:
 Leader – This factor would be able to convince the followers and
not superiors (Wang et al., 2014).
 Follower – The follower should know the people. The follower
should be a good human being and should understand others.

Four Factors of Leadership
 Communication – This is a major factor for communicating
ideas with the tem members within an organisation. A good level
of communication helps in building of good relationship.
 Situation – With the help of proper judgement, the individuals
would be able to decide the course of actions based on different
situations (McCleskey, 2014).

Styles of Leadership

Styles of Leadership
The different styles of leadership are:
 Autocratic or Authoritarian
 Participative or Democratic
 Delegative or Free Reign

Styles of Leadership
Autocratic :
 The authoritarian would be responsible for making decisions
solely.
 They would help in guiding others and make vital decisions
(Mahdinezhad & Suandi, 2013).
 Various decisions are made by individuals to help others within
the workplace.

Styles of Leadership
Democratic :
 The main leader includes more than one employees within the
process of decision making.
 In this form of style of leadership, the flow of communication
is freely organised.
 Participation would encourage member commitment for final
decision making process.

Styles of Leadership
Delegative :
 This form of leadership provides power to subordinates for
making decisions.
 Leaders would be solely responsible for making of decisions
(Gonos & Gallo, 2013).
 This kind of leadership would be helpful for leaders for
analysing different situations.

Types of Leadership Power
 Coercive Power – This kind of leadership power is least
effective.
 Reward Power – This form of leadership power is primarily
used in businesses. This kind of leadership would be useful till
the reward would be perceived with value.
 Legitimate Power – This kind of leadership power is used
within every organisation. This is also defined as the power of
a certain role or position.

Types of Leadership Power
 Referent Power – This form of leadership power would be
beneficial for attracting others and thus build loyalty within the
organisation.
 Informational Power – This leadership power would mean the
power of gathering information (Blau, 2017). The distribution
of information would mean of bring changes.
 Expert Power – In this leadership power, an individual would
posses in-depth information or expertise in a particular area.

Learning to be a Good Leader
 Understanding of Leadership Styles
 Encouraging of Creativity
 Serving as a Role Model
 Listening and Communicating Effectively

Stephen Covey and Improving Effectiveness
 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was firstly published
in 1989. This book was written by Stephen Covey.
 The author presents an approach for leaders based on being
effective within an organisation (Covey, 2014).
 These kinds of approaches was based on attaining goals by
aligning to some principles.

7 habits Model
The seven habits includes:
 Proactive
 Begin with The End in Mind
 Put First Things First
 Think Win/Win
 Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

7 habits Model
The seven habits includes:
 Synergize
 Sharpening of the Saw

Questions
 What kinds of views that could be gained from the
presentation?
 Was the presentation well-provided and effective in covering of
ideas?
 Any other questions that you would like to present before me?

References
Blau, P. (2017). Exchange and power in social life. Routledge.
Covey, S. R. (2014). The 7 habits of highly effective families. St. Martin's Press.
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Mahdinezhad, M., & Suandi, B. (2013). Transformational, Transactional Leadership Styles
and Job Performance of Academic Leaders. International Education Studies, 6(11), 29-34.
McCleskey, J. A. (2014). Situational, transformational, and transactional leadership and
leadership development. Journal of Business Studies Quarterly, 5(4), 117.
Tannenbaum, R., & Schmidt, W. H. (2017). How to choose a leadership pattern. In
Leadership Perspectives (pp. 75-84). Routledge.
Wang, H., Sui, Y., Luthans, F., Wang, D., & Wu, Y. (2014). Impact of authentic leadership
on performance: Role of followers' positive psychological capital and relational processes.
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Yukl, G. A. (2013). Leadership in organizations. Pearson Education India.