Leadership and Management: Skills, Styles, Influence, and Thinking

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of leadership and management, exploring key aspects such as leadership styles, including telling, coaching, participating, and delegating, and differentiating servant leadership from traditional approaches. It examines leadership skills as defined by James Kouzes, emphasizing the importance of modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging processes, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart. The report also distinguishes between the roles of managers and leaders, focusing on their respective approaches to team motivation, organization, and goal achievement. Furthermore, it explores various types of thinking processes and highlights the crucial role of influencing in leadership, including credibility, attraction, and commitment, to inspire and guide teams towards their objectives. References to relevant literature are also included, providing a comprehensive overview of the subject matter.

Leadership and Management

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Definition of leadership...............................................................................................................3
Servant leadership and their differentiation from others.............................................................3
Leadership skills as per the James Kouzes..................................................................................3
Difference between manager and leader......................................................................................3
Various types of thinking.............................................................................................................3
Importance of influencing for leadership.....................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

Definition of leadership
Leadership is a skill of motivating and inspiring a group of people, helping them to achieve
goal.
Telling: Situational leadership includes, telling, in this leaders have to tell people what to
do and how to do it.
Coaching: In this style, members have some required skill set and leaders helping them
improvise. Just like in a sport, a coach directs team members to make them best players.
Participating: Next is participating, Leaders allow team members to take up active role
and making decisions (Johnson and Hackman, 2018).
Delegating: Delegating, here the team has high level of confidence, resulting in less need
of a leader to hub on tasks.
Servant leadership and their differentiation from others
Here, an individual work to achieve authority over power, they intend to develop
leadership skills in others too. Main aim is to provide service to their people, focusing on people
below them rather than looking for whole company. Whereas, main direction of traditional
leadership is to improve business.
Leadership skills as per the James Kouzes
For being an exemplar leader, they should know how to model the way, inspire their
shared vision, challenge process, motivate others to act and lastly, encourage the heart.
Difference between manager and leader
Leader focus on inspiring, motivating and coach the team whereas mangers are there to
manage, organise and make plans, both working to achieve common goal for business (Kouzes,
2021).
Various types of thinking
Remembering, like a toddler learning numbers. Understanding, like reading and
interpreting the material. Applying those skills and then analysing, conceptually determining
parts. Lastly, Evaluating the data.

Importance of influencing for leadership
Influencing is key to successful leadership, by credibility, attraction, commitment and so
on , a leader can guide and inspire its team to achieve their goal.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Johnson, C.E. and Hackman, M.Z., 2018. Leadership: A communication perspective. Waveland
Press.
Kouzes, J.M., 2021. The leadership challenge: How to make extraordinary things happen in
organizations. Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint.