Effective Leadership Styles in the 21st Century: A Report

This report delves into the concept of effective leadership, examining its role in organizations, particularly in the 21st century. It explores the importance of leadership in enhancing employee skills and achieving organizational goals. The report discusses the traits and characteristics of effective leaders, highlighting communication, teamwork, and decision-making skills. It uses Bill Gates as an example of a modern leader. Furthermore, it analyzes different leadership styles, including autocratic, democratic, and free rein, and discusses how they influence organizational outcomes. The report concludes by summarizing the key aspects of effective leadership and its impact on personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of leadership for organizational success. This report is a valuable resource for students seeking to understand leadership principles and their practical applications.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
1. Elaborate the role of Effective Leadership in organisation along with traits:.........................1
2. Discuss the different form of leadership style along with a business leader..........................2
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................3
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REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The term leadership is derives about influencing, inspiring or motivate to individual and
group to enhance their skills and knowledge for regarding to accomplish objectives. The role of
leadership in organisation is to enhancing the employees mobility in their work attributes where
they could handle the entire organisation as a team or individual which support them to attain
overall purpose that leads them to success (Bolman and Deal, 2017). As in this essay writing the
topic would highlight and discuss about the effective leadership work process in 21st century
along with importance of good business leader.
Main Body
1. Elaborate the role of Effective Leadership in organisation along with traits:
An effective leadership is encompasses to provides the optimum direction, motivate or
influence towards to achieve gaols and objectives. The role of effective leader is to measure the
need or requirement for better leadership skills provide to the employees or identifying the
lacking part through which a leader could address and improve through enhancing their skills
and knowledge. By determining the leadership the skills to that individual who is having traits
and attitude of being as successful leadership who leads his/her employees or team in positive
direction. For Example: Bill Gates is an business entrepreneur as well as he is good business
leader who handle and owns Microsoft Corporation venture.
Effective leadership which influence the organisation success in 21st Century:
In the 21st Century, the business is fastest growing and dynamic in nature by changing of
every single aspect of regulations of government, competitions increases and workforce are hire
as per measuring competency traits for individual. Having a role of a modern leader and their
working process in 21st century as leadership to depicts the errors and lacking in managerial
skills is need to improve by providing the guidance as per the market trends and business culture.
Organisation hire expertise leaders who are having years of experience and having good decision
making to encourage teamwork (Fiaz and Saqib, 2017). The kind of effective leaders are
generally facilitates their members through different types of managerial activities which
improvise their skills and knowledge for better performance as well as it improves the personal
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and professional development. As Bills Gates is one of the modern leader of 21st Century who
having suitable attributes that counted him a effective and professional leadership quality.
Traits and Characteristics of a good or effective leader which helps to develop the personal and
professional attributes.
The concept of a good leader is represent on the basis of their field experiences and
having the role to motivate and influence the people towards positive direction to individual or
team to attain their objectives. There are some of the traits and abilities of effective leader which
encourage to the employees for increase their employability such as: Communication skills: To being a good leader, they need a better communication skills
attributes in professional aspect or any job role, it enhance the appropriate coordination
between peers along with it also helps to better understanding of conversation between
employees and superiors. Bill Gates, is having good vocal skills where he is able to make
understand his thoughts to his employees or team members. Teamwork skills: As per today leadership qualities is totally different as some of the
organisation's leadership management allows to division the work individually, but it
been necessary to allocate the work in group where it increase the better relationship with
other office employees as well as better coordination which is also generates the better
productivity (Gandolfi and Stone, 2018). To making engage and influence by Bill Gates
to employees for pursuing their task in team work aspect that will enhance their work
mobility as well as it helps to learn many other managerial skills that makes healthy
relationship with them. Good Decision Making skills: For being an effective leader, a leader must having a
better decision making skills which helps to making their personality stronger and also it
makes effective understanding to the others issues and problem which sorted and provide
quick solution to the employees. Being a good leader a individual should having skills of
better forming decision in aspect to every situation, where Bill Gates is having better
sense of decision making that makes him proficient and successful leader.
Qualities or Characteristics:
 An effective leaders should have high motivating capacity which helps to influence the
employees for their objective or goals also it improves their professional and personal
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development. Bill Gates having a skills and other extrovert competencies which reflects
his good quality of leadership attributes.
 By having enough knowledge about the topic or agenda to the leader, on which the
discussion to be conduct and provide some of sort of information to them to increase the
efficiency and knowledge power of an individual. As Bill Gates is very knowledgable
person as well as he always shows his interest to learn new creative concept of business.
 A good leader enhance to implies the more critical thinking to instruct their people where
they can utilise some logical sense to measure the aspect beyond to their imagination. By
having better decision making that emphasis Bill Gates analyse every decision in overall
situation to measures its pros and cons.
2. Discuss the different form of leadership style along with a business leader.
Leadership having a different style which provides the directions for attaining the
objectives, enhance to motivating people towards their desirable goals. The process of
encouraging and support others to work professionally towards their objectives. As there are
three main leadership styles on the basis of leader behaviour and role (Hoch and et . al., 2018).
The styles of leadership:
 Autocratic Leadership style: According to this style, all decision making powers are
undertaken by one leader who holds the decision power as per his/her responsibility as
well as they do not accept any other suggestion, thoughts from their under executives.
They are kind of quick decision maker leader. Similarly, Bill Gates skills of leadership
qualities highlight towards the Autocratic where he is responsible and having authority
to making decisions for company betterment.
 Democratic Leadership style: In this leadership style, leader insists to other for
showing participation to other subordinate in decision making process, these leaders are
very cooperative in nature and enhance to effectively motivate to employees. By
determining Bill Gates is suitable for Democratic Leadership Style where he insists to
share and allows his subordinate to contribute their suggestions in every decision
making aspect.
 Free Rein Leadership Style: In this leadership style, a leader not hold any role in
decision making, in fact, they give full authority to employees or subordinates for
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deciding the further goals and project related decisions by their own (Robertson, 2016).
This kind of leadership style generates new creative ideas from employees in business,
subordinate can make a better control in their working aspect. Sometimes, Bill gates
allows his employees for taking the internal decisions by their own that enhance their
presence of mind which improves by discussions among themselves.
About a Business leader: On the basis of leadership style by opting a effective business leader.
Bill Gates is one of the good example of effective leadership as he is been always in self
motivating, a good decision maker that helps to leads to the employees for influence to their
professional and personal objectives that allows the positivity and increase the job satisfaction.
He is been considered as Democratic kind of Leadership style, where he allows to his
subordinates and junior executives for contributing their suggestion and ideas at the time of
making of making decision (Yahaya and Ebrahim., 2016). This practise improves individual's
personal and professional development in context of better learning practises.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above report the conclusion is been made as per the covered all the task
objectives as there is full fledged explanation about the leadership and its role in 21st century
about how the leader approach to influence people for their objectives. After that the
characteristics and skills elaborates of the good leader along with describes about the three
different styles of leadership with their major key roles and at last phrase, by selecting a good
business leader Bill Gates who is famous business entrepreneur as well as a good business leader
and explains its leadership style which makes him a successful business man and business leader.
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REFERENCES
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Gandolfi, F. and Stone, S., 2018. Leadership, leadership styles, and servant leadership. Journal
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Hoch, and et . al., 2018. Do ethical, authentic, and servant leadership explain variance above and
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Robertson, J., 2016. Coaching leadership: Building educational leadership capacity through
partnership. New Zealand Council for Educational Research. PO Box 3237, Wellington
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Yahaya, R. and Ebrahim, F., 2016. Leadership styles and organizational commitment: literature
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