Personal and Professional Development: Effective Leadership Report

This report delves into the realm of effective leadership, analyzing its core characteristics and diverse styles. It begins by defining leadership and its importance in modern organizations, emphasizing the shift from solely achieving objectives to fostering employee satisfaction and well-being. The report explores various leadership styles, including autocratic, democratic, transformational, and transactional, highlighting how these styles impact team dynamics and organizational success. A significant portion is dedicated to examining Bill Gates' transformational leadership approach at Microsoft, illustrating how his emphasis on innovation, creativity, and employee empowerment contributed to the company's success. The report also discusses the roles of effective leadership in achieving organizational goals. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, underscoring the importance of leaders adapting to evolving market conditions and promoting continuous development to ensure organizational success. The report also provides a list of references.

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Table of Content
• Introduction
• Introduction to effective leadership and its characteristics
• Roles of effective leadership in success of organisation
• Types of effective leadership styles
• Leadership styles of Bill Gates
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
21st century an ear of revolution and development, bringing
changes which are necessary for betterment and
productivity in separate aspects. Business organisations
in today's ear is changing and adapting to the
environment (Bennett-Levy, 2019) . This era has raised
the level of effectiveness of leadership styles and
practices undertaken by leaders for running the
operations of organisation and smooth functioning of
human resource. The aim of leadership have changed
from earlier which was to attain the end objectives
whereas now the aim of an effective business manager
and effective leadership is to accomplish all goals and
keeping the workforce satisfied and happy with potential
practices.

Introduction to effective leadership and its
characteristics
Leadership is a concept that is unique for everyone and
described in a unique sense by the leaders as they their
perspectives to it. Generally, leadership is defined as a
direction or guidance provided by leader to their team
member or employees of the organisation towards the
path of working productively and attaining all objectives
in the respective time frame and with utmost potentials
(Carpenter and et. al., 2019).

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A Leader is the person who manages their human resource in
collaborative manner for achieving the particular
objectives and reach to the end as efficiently as possible.
A leader is known to be a good manager and effective
leader if they are able to perform all the roles and
responsibilities properly and keep their practices
balanced every day and year after year by making
necessary updates and development (Choy and Chua,
2019).

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The leaders effective characteristics play major role in taking
the organisation towards success and productivity.
Leadership phenomena make sure to make people
willingly follow the path showed by the leader and
embrace the qualities for future use and personal
development. Most common characteristics and skills of
a good leaders are goal oriented, ethical behaviours,
passionate, empowering, team worker, confident, self
motivated and others (Howard and Eddy‐Imishue,
2020).

Roles of effective leadership in success of
organization
The role of effective leader is to keep staff motivated and
engaged in the operations of the organisation. On the
similar parameter the role of effective leadership is to
accomplish all the respective goals of the team in the
given time frame and contribute to end aim of the
company (Noonan, 2019). The leadership and leaders is
at vital position playing related roles for achieving all
goals and lead the organisation towards success and
growth. Bill Gates is a founder of a leading technology
company known Microsoft, founded by him and another
partner Paul Allen.

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The role effective leaders and their leadership styles play in
success of their respective company is very discreet and
important. Bill Gates started Microsoft from scratch with
Paul Allen and now the firm is on the top five
technology companies in the world with Apple, Google,
Amazon and Facebook. Bill Gates led the organisation
on different positions till 2000 and still engaged with the
firm on part time basis for guiding the current Chief
Executive Satya Nadella (Powell and et. al., 2019).

Types of effective leadership styles/skills
Effective Leadership styles, that are best and works in the
most productive manner for the leaders or managers and
for the team as well. Every team is different, holding
separate objectives, with their respective duties and
responsibilities and with unique skills and expertise.
This implies that one particular style of leader is not
appropriate for all. This brings in several different
leadership styles which good managers adopts and
practice according to the characteristic of their team
member and according to the tasks assigned to them
(Prestridge, 2019).

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Some of the major leadership styles are Autocratic
leadership, Democratic leadership, Transformational
leadership, Transactional leadership, Liassez-Faire
leadership and many others. The Autocratic
Leadership is where leader make their decisions on
their own without engaging their team members. On the
other hand, Democratic Leadership is a phenomena in
which leaders make their decisions on the basis of the
contribution made by all the team members and by
listening to their opinions (Steinert, O’Sullivan and Irby,
2019).

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Transformational Leadership, is a leadership style by which
leader motivate and encourages the employee to perform
the seam tasks by new ways every time they do it for
brining innovation and making them more productive.
On the other hand, Transactional Leadership, is a
phenomena through which the leaders keep rewarding
staff on their performances and for those tasks which
they performed (Crotty, Farren and Kilboy, 2019).

Leadership style of Bill Gates
Leadership style of Bill Gates as mentioned is
Transformational Leadership, a way of being a
motivator and inspiration for others rather than making
them work with one or two specific ways and
phenomena's. Creativity and innovation are the basis
features of the leadership and of a leader who is known
to be Transformational Leader (McChesney and
Aldridge, 2019).