Leadership Skills and Styles

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Leadership Skills and Styles

• For Success in the Business World

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Objectives

• Evaluate the skills of an effective leader
• Evaluate the behavior styles of leaders
• Evaluate the leadership styles based on different
  behaviors

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Skills of An Effective Leader

• Understanding the needs and characteristics of
  the job
• Includes understanding your own needs and the
  needs of others

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Skills of An Effective Leader

• Knowing and using the resources of the group
• Resources include all things necessary to do a
  job, including people, knowledge, skills, and
  attitude

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Skills of An Effective Leader

• Communicating
• Includes being a good listener and a good
  speaker. Should be able to explain to others and
  help them understand.

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Skills of An Effective Leader

• Planning
• Includes considering task at hand, examining
  resources, considering alternatives, evaluating
  your decisions, carrying out the plan, and
  evaluating the plan

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Skills of An Effective Leader

• Controlling group performance
• Control must be maintained for job to be
  completed. Setting the example is most effective
  way of controlling.

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Skills of An Effective Leader

• Evaluating.
• Includes measuring the groups performance to
  see how well the job was done and how well the
  group worked together

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Skills of An Effective Leader

• Setting the example
• Most important leadership skill. Best way to
  show others how to conduct themselves.

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Skills of An Effective Leader

• Sharing leadership
• Includes offering others in group the
  opportunity to be the leader and teaching them
  the leadership skills they need

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Skills of An Effective Leader

• Counseling
• Includes helping people with their problems and
  encouraging or reassuring them

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Skills of An Effective Leader

• Representing the group
• Leader should represent ideas and opinions of
  the group as a whole

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Skills of An Effective Leader

• Effective teaching
• Includes increasing the knowledge, skills, and
  attitudes of the group and its members

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Leadership Behaviors

• Divided into 2 behavior styles
• Directive Behaviors
• Supportive Behaviors

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Directive Behaviors

• Task-oriented behaviors
• Accomplish goals by
• Giving directions
• Establishing goals and methods of evaluation
• Setting time lines
• Defining roles
• Showing how goals are to be achieved
• One-way communication

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Supportive Behaviors

• Relationship-oriented behaviors
• Leaders help group members feel more comfortable
  about themselves, their co-workers, and the
  situation
• Two-way communication

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Leadership Styles

• Directing
• Coaching
• Supporting
• Delegating

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Directing

• Focuses on goal achievement
• Spends little time using supportive behaviors
• Leader gives instruction and supervises
  subordinates carefully
• High directive-low supportive style

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Coaching

• Focuses on both goal achievement and maintenance
  of groups emotional needs
• Leader gives encouragement and solicits the input
  of subordinates
• High directive-high supportive style

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Supporting

• Does not focus exclusively on goals
• Leader uses supportive behaviors to bring out
  employees skills
• Leader gives subordinates control for day-to-day
  decisions but is still available to solve
  problems
• High supportive-low directive

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Delegating

• Subordinates take responsibility for getting job
  done the way they see fit
• Leader gives control to subordinates and does not
  interfere with unnecessary social support
• Low supportive-low directive

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Leadership Styles