Effective Leadership: Styles, Skills, Attributes, and Motivation

This essay explores the style and impact of leadership, focusing on essential leadership skills such as motivational, communication, listening, social, initiative, and decision-making abilities. It highlights the attributes of a good leader, including self-confidence, responsibility, honesty, integrity, and an approachable demeanor. The essay differentiates between management and leadership, emphasizing that management is about achieving organizational goals through coordinated resource utilization, while leadership involves influencing employees towards a common objective. It also discusses leadership styles during crises and change, methods to motivate staff through monetary and non-monetary means, and the importance of adapting leadership styles at various organizational stages to enhance employee skills and outcomes.

Style and impact of
leadership

Leadership skills
• Motivational skills
• Communication skills
• Listening skills
• Social skills
• Initiative skills
• Decision making skills

Attributes of a good leader
• A good leader must process self
confidence and should have sense of
responsibility
• A good leader must have high level of
honesty an integrity and should be ethical.
• A team leader approach his team in a
friendly manner
• A team leader must see the position from
others point of view also

Management
• Management is the process of getting
things done by others with main motto
directed towards achievement of goals
and objective of organisation and co-
ordination of all the resources, utilising
them in most effective and efficient
manner

Leadership
• Leadership is the process of influencing
the employees for the common objective
and achievement of group goal
• It shows personal relationship between
leader and its employees
• It is a continuous process

Difference between
Management & Leadership
Basis Management Leadership
Definition Management is the process of
getting things done by others with
main motto directed towards
achievement of goals and
objective of organisation
It is the process of
influencing the
employees for the
common objective and
achievement of group
goal
Existence Exists in both formal & informal
organisation
Generally exist in formal
organisation only
Goal Main motto is toward achievement
of common goal of the
organisation
Objective is to influence
the behaviour of each
and every member of the
group towards a
common direction

Leadership styles during crisis
• Great motivational influencing power
• Short strategy maker for common goal
• Forecasting
• Opportunistic, not loosing any opportunity
from external market
• Decisiveness

Leadership styles during
change
• Motivating employees for a healthy
change
• Leadership with handling of unexpected
outcomes
• Self initiator for change

Methods to motivate staff
• Motivation is inspiring and inducing the
team to perform to their best of their
capacity
• It is more of psychological term
• It cannot be forceful on the team.
• It is toward the achievement of common
goal

Methods to motivate staff
• There can be two major ways of
motivating the team
- Fulfilling monetary or financial need of
employees
- fulfilling non-monetary or non financial
needs of the team

Monetary or financial motivation
• Salary increment
• Bonus
• Commission
• Incentive
• Profit sharing & stock options
• Other fringe & monetary perks

Non Monetary or Non financial
motivation
• Job security
• Promotion
• Giving challenging job
• Asking employee participation
• Delegation of authority
• Employee recognition