Leadership Report: Approaches, Styles, and Effectiveness

This report delves into the multifaceted concept of leadership, emphasizing its significance in managing tasks and activities within an organization. It explores various leadership styles, including transformational leadership, and their impact on team dynamics and achieving organizational goals...Read More

Leadership

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Part 1................................................................................................................................................3
Part 2................................................................................................................................................3
Reflection.........................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
This presentation includes the discussion about leadership and it’s importance for managing
tasks and activities.
Part 1
(covered in ppt)
Part 2
Summary
A leader is involved in inspiring other people to act simultaneously and direct ways to attain
goals. It is essential to have creative thinking in order to know the best way for managing the
organisational resources properly. Leadership skills help in maintaining and developing new
ways for enhancing the work. Leadership approaches are different for each and every person but
generally there are five leadership approaches. From five common leadership styles, the
transformational style of leadership is one in which a leader who inspires other persons in a
difficult situation and motivate them to think positive and some innovative to solve the problem
these kind of leadership known as transformational leadership. Leadership is known as the
concept of developing proper planning for handling several activities and tasks assigned to team
members. It is analysed that leadership approaches are there which can be used by leaders to
manage different tasks and activities. It is evaluated that adopting one type of leadership style is
not enough as business scenarios are different and accordingly actions are taken for completing
the goals. The different leadership styles are used by managers and leaders while taking
decisions of business include autocratic, democratic and laissez faire. There is need to gravitate
towards one type of leadership style in order to manage the working efficiency. There are several
important steps which a good leader can achieve for building own personal brand. A good leader
has to market himself and there is need to be a good storyteller for influencing other people.
Different ways to manage and lead people are considered by leaders. Some of the ways include
modelling the way, inspiring shared vision, challenging the process and enabling others to act. It
has been concluded that for becoming an effective leader, there is need for managing own
actions properly. There is need for understanding opinions of others. There are various effective
leaders present in business scenario who have been working for attaining organisational goals
and objectives. The most essential competency is emotional intelligence and empathy. These are

involved in managing the strong value for handling different team individuals. Leaders have to
be stoic if they are infallible. Leadership is a challenging concept and there is need for every
individual who is managing teams to develop new ways to handle situations. An effective
leadership provides help in managing and handling various business situations and problems.
Transformational leadership is one in which employees are stimulated and inspired for attaining
extra ordinary outcomes. In the process of development, they are involved in developing own
leadership capacity. Such kind of leaders help the followers in growing and developing leaders
by providing response to individual followers. In context of transformational leadership, leaders
have to encourage and motivate their employees to work hard. They are more into creating
innovation and creativity within organisation. As per the views given by Bass, it is clear that
transformational leaders are those who encourages and motivates positive development of
individuals. This is helpful in building company culture by encouraging employees towards a
self-interest attribute. There is need to provide coaching and mentoring for allowing employees
to make effective decisions and take ownership of different tasks. The transformational leaders
support agile environments in cases where failure carries less risk. There is need of development
and maintenance of present product or service in the organisation then this leadership will be
used.
Reflection
I have completed this project on the topic leadership and its approaches. These have helped me
to manage the work efficiently and complete goals in less time. I have evaluated from this study
that for becoming a good and strong leader, it is essential to be agile. There is need to practise
various leadership styles in order to It is essential to know what can make a person to shine in
business world. For becoming a good leader, it is essential to know that work must be done
properly and team members should be provided proper guidance for completing assigned
projects. There is need of managing personal due diligence. I think it is necessary for knowing
what are the various ways that can be used for effective leadership. I have grabbed information
about importance of leadership and motivation. There are various ways to manage leadership
skills in order to conduct business tasks and scenarios properly. I have enhanced information
regarding new leaders who have created useful applications that are used by people. CEO of
LinkedIn naming Jeff Weiner said that there is lack of compassion as young professional. There
is need to realise what changes can be done for managing the work accordingly. When I think

about, what is value based leadership the first vision which came in my mind is, my class
monitor who always encouraged other classmates to work hard, try to maintain the discipline of
class, the main purpose behind this is to focus on the goals which helps us to become successful.
This leadership known as value based leadership which related with our life positively, this kind
of leaders play a best role in others life at their level. To read about this I completely connected
with my school days’ memories, with my friends who always support each other. In this aspect
they played a role of value based leader in other life style. To continue with this interesting topic
of leadership I think about a person who works in an organisation with 100% of capacity level
and after all that he faces some issues, at this point another person who takes responsibility to
correct or solve this issues in a positive manner, support and helps the person who is actually
responsible for that, this is called participatory leadership. When I start reading on this I found
many things related with our practical lifestyle. Somewhere, we guide someone on specific topic
or gave advice on the basis of experience it is a kind of leadership. To relate with this, it is
concluded that found many persons as a role model of my life, they inspired and motivate me in
a beautiful way. I think this leadership is little bit difficult for practical lifestyle but some persons
are able to handle these situations with peaceful mind. The other kind of leadership which called
situational leadership related with a particular situation where we have to understand first that
what is actual situation and to think that how to deal with it. In this I thought everyone is a leader
in their life because everyone faces many situations and deal in proper manner. Firstly, we all
keep our mind cool and calm then started thinking that what should do to come out from the
situation. In this case everyone plays a role of situational leader in their own life. It can be said
that situational leadership is completely based on practical life. When I started this project I don't
know about the approaches of leadership properly and have no idea that how these work in our
life style but with the flow of this exciting topic I understood many concept of leadership, along
with reading I enjoyed and connect this interesting topic with real life.

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