Understanding your Leadership Style

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If you are involved in managing processes and resources (including people), you will have leadership responsibilities.

The main priority of a good leader is to get the job done whatever the job is.

Leaders make things happen by:

• knowing their objectives and having a plan how to achieve them
• building a team committed to achieving the objectives
• helping each team member to give their best efforts

Leaders must know their strengths and weaknesses, so that they can build the best team around them.

Your leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people.

This class looks at the six styles of leadership reviewing the strengths and the limitations of each style.  Although good leaders use all of the styles according to the situation, one of them normally dominates.

Poor leaders tend to less flexible.

Which style is the one that you use most often?

• Introduction to Leadership Styles
• Objectives of the Class
• What Makes an Effective Leader
• The Importance of Self Awareness
• Some Perspectives on Leadership
• Emotional Intelligence at Work
• Leadership vs Management
• Modes of Leadership
• The Six Styles of Leadership
• The Commanding Leadership Style
• The Pacesetting Leadership Style
• The Democratic Leadership Style
• The Affiliative Leadership Style
• The Visionary Leadership Style
• The Coaching Leadeship Style
• Skills and Behaviours of the Leadership Styles
• Underpinning Skills of Each Leadership Style
• Demonstrated Behaviours of Each Leadership Style
• Fine Tuning the Leadership Styles
• Increasing the Use of the Commanding Leadership Style
• Increasing the Use of the Pacesetting Leadership Style
• Increasing the Use of the Democratic Leadership Style
• Increasing the Use of the Affiliative Leadership Style
• Increasing the Use of the Visionary Leadership Style
• Increasing the Use of the Coaching Leadership Style
• Toning Down the Use of the Commanding Leadership Style
• Toning Down the Use of the Pacesetting Leadership Style
• Toning Down the Use of the Democratic Leadership Style
• Toning Down the Use of the Affiliative Leadership Style
• Toning Down the Use of the Visionary Leadership StyleVideo
• Toning Down the Use of the Coaching Leadership Style
• Increasing and Toning Down the Styles
• Review of this Class on Leadership Styles