Leadership Styles

• The six most common leadership styles are:

  1. Transformational leadership
  2. Delegative leadership
  3. Authoritative leadership
  4. Transactional leadership
  5. Participative leadership
  6. Servant leadership
• leadership style refers to a leader’s methods, characteristics, and behaviors when directing, motivating, and managing their teams.
• Transformational leadership is a leadership style that emphasizes change and transformation.
• Transformational leadership. Leaders who adopt this approach strive to inspire their followers to achieve more than they ever thought possible by tapping into their potential. This type of leadership can be highly effective in organizations looking to make significant changes or transformations.
• Transformational Leadership. Always look ahead and think about what needs to be done to achieve the organization’s goals.
• Transformational Leadership. Comfortable with change and understand it is necessary for organizational success. They work to ensure their followers are comfortable with change and can adapt to it.
• Transformational Leadership. See the potential in every one of their followers. They strive to develop their followers’ individual strengths and abilities so that they can reach their full potential
• Delegative Leadership Often referred to as “laissez-faire,”
• Delegative leadership style focuses on delegating initiative to team members. This is generally known as one of the least intrusive forms of leadership; this translates to “let them do.
• Authoritative leaders are often referred to as visionary.
• Leaders who adopt this style consider themselves mentors to their followers. Authoritative leadership
• tend to motivate and inspire those around them. They provide overall direction and provide their teams with guidance, feedback, and motivation. This promotes a sense of accomplishment or achievement. Authoritative Leadership
• Authoritative leadership is very hands-on, but leaders must be cautious not to micromanage. This is a tendency with this style, which can be overbearing for team members and create negative sentiments
• Transactional Leadership- often referred to as managerial leadership, is a leadership style that relies on rewards and punishments. 
• This “give and take” leadership style is more concerned with efficiently following established routines and procedures than making transformational organizational changes. Transactional Leadership
• Participative Leadership - Sometimes referred to as democratic leadership
• participative leadership is a leadership style that encourages leaders to listen to their employees and involve them in the decision-making process.
• Servant Leadership. leadership style that puts the needs of others first.
• Servant leadership is a leadership style that prioritizes the growth, well-being, and empowerment of employees. It aims to foster an inclusive environment that enables everyone in the organization to thrive as their authentic self.
• The theory of servant leadership was started by Robert K. Greenleaf, who popularized the term in a 1970s essay titled "The Servant as Leader"
• Greenleaf initially proposed an "I serve" mentality for servant leadership and based it on the two main premises of "I serve because I am the leader," and "I am the leader because I serve."
• Listening. Effective servant leaders don’t just speak but listen to what their team has to say.
• Healing. Effective servant leaders understand the importance of fixing problems before moving on to new goals and projects.
• Empathy. Effective servant leaders care about their team on a personal level.
• Self-awareness. Effective servant leaders are aware of themselves and their teams
• Persuasion. Effective servant leaders guide and persuade team members.
• Conceptualization. Effective servant leaders can think beyond small tasks and communicate larger goals and why they are important to their teams.
• Foresight. Effective servant leaders understand the importance of learning from past mistakes and successes and using lessons learned to productively evaluate present decisions.
• Stewardship. Effective servant leaders acknowledge and understand the importance of their responsibilities. 
• Commitment to growth.  Effective servant leaders motivate their teams to grow
• Building community. Effective servant leaders encourage collaboration and engagement within their organizations.
• Servant leadership focuses on the responsibilities and connections that exist between parents and children, teachers and students, staff members and clients, and shareholders and investors.
• traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise of power by one at the “top of the pyramid,” servant leadership is different. The servant-leader shares power, puts the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible
• Robert K. Greenleaf - servant leaders are “natural” servants who make conscious choices to lead – in other words, that servant leadership is a matter of nature.
• Example of servant leaders

  1. Jesus Christ
  2. Mother Teresa
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Dr. Martin Luther King
  5. Albert Schweitzer