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Originally written by Susan Crane, and published on www.linkedin.com
Over the years I have read many articles & textbooks describing leadership & management styles also defining the difference between leadership and management.
The reason I bring this topic up is I find it quite annoying and contradictive, in my opinion, if you lead a team of people then you are a leader, all managers are leaders and should see themselves and behave like leaders as that is what they are physically doing, or should be doing. So, let’s delete the management vs. leadership theories and definitions from our memory banks and our social feeds, all they do is just confuse the hell out of everybody.
Secondly, you would have noticed the hundreds of articles & blogs out in the market, through your feeds with the heading “6 Styles of management/leadership, which one are you” and you’ve heard people and educators describing their leadership style, training up and coming leaders to take on this mindset. I have listed them below in case you do not know what I am referring too:
1. Directive – If you use the directive style, you are the sort of leader who expects compliance from their employees. It is your way or the highway!
2. Authoritative – This style you tend to motivate through persuasion and feedback, not taking into consideration their experience.
3. Affiliative – You are trying to create harmony, you want to be everyone’s friend, you are always at drinks down the pub.
4. Participative – This type leads by consensus and rewards; you are led by your team not the other way around.
5. Pacesetting – has high standards and expects staff to adhere to them, to follow your example.
6. Coaching – This style focuses on the long-term development of employees.
As a coach, I teach people true leadership, a true leader possesses all the above skills and can adapt the approach (style) suitable for the situation, person, or team they are dealing with to get to the outcome needed. It’s not confusing, it’s a fact, if you understand your business’s vision, mission, the task at hand & outcome, your audience (your team), break down their personas (including skillset) then you will find you will use all ” 6 styles”.
Now if you have pigeon-holed yourself with one of the 6 styles, then I would love to hear from you and provide you the tools to adapt all 6 styles and get you to focus on emotional intelligence (EI), it is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of the people around you. People with a high degree of emotional intelligence know what they are feeling, what their emotions mean, how these emotions can affect other people, and are also able to put themselves in the other person’s shoes. Adopting this thought pattern will enable you to look at each task/outcome holistically and adapt accordingly!
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