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Leadership style
• Leadership style = how you relate to subordinates. ...
• But this style question is based on an old fashioned view of leadership.
• It deals with top-down, formal leadership only.
• Its more about how managers motivate subordinates to perform, not leadership.
• Leadership generates new directions - its not about managing people.
• See links on this site for more on how our concept of leadership must change.
Leadership approach and style
• Situational leadership is based on a top-down view of leaderhsip. ...
• Leadership style is not about how you make decisions for your team.
• It should refer to influencing style - to influence change not motivate high performance. ...
o Setting an example - vitally important but often overlooked style - the old adage actions speak louder than words is very true. We follow the example of others perhaps more than any other leadership style.
• Unlike conventional notions of leadership, using authority is not a leadership style.
• Using authority is not leadership - unless you equate leadership with being in power.
Situational management
• Management style as decision making style can be situational.
• What used to be called leadership style is really management style.
• Leadership is about advocating a change in direction, management is about executing existing directions as efficiently as possible.
• Being a manager means occupying a role of responsibility while leadership is about acting creatively to to bring about a change of direction regardless of your formal role. ... Obviously upward leadership has nothing to do with decision-making style because you cannot decide unilaterally for your superiors - a career limiting move if you dared try it! ...
• Situational management (or leadership) is really a red herring. It only arises if you see it as a problem that we cant define one universal style to apply in all situations.
• The real problem with the old concept of situational leadership is that it focuses too exclusively on what the person in charge does.
• We need to separate leadership from the person of the boss and redefine it as an initiative to get others to change direction regardless of the source of the leadership within the group - this is quite a mindshift away from our traditional way of thinking about leadership as something that a person is or a way of behaving for the person in charge. ... The whole style issue arose because of problems with these personality definitions - that is it was obvious that some leaders are dynamic while others were not.
• This whole issue can be avoided by simply defining leadership and management in functional terms - leaders serve the function of generating new directions, managers execute existing directions efficiently. This view then says that how you influence or motivate people is totally open, not part of the definition of leadership or management. ...
Situational leadership
• Situational leadership is old-fashioned and overly academic.
• The traditional idea is flawed because it presumes that leadership is about how the boss makes decisions. First of all, this conception fails to distinguish between leadership and management.
Approximate Word count = 2464
Approximate Pages = 9.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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