A Leader 's Leadership Style

Leadership goes beyond management, for some, leadership is instinctual and pours over into your personal life. This paper will discuss a leader I admire in my personal life, and analyze their leadership style. I will discuss how that leader has influenced my leadership style, as well as how things like environment and the economy affect my leadership approach.

According to Harold Koontz, “leadership is defined as an art or process of influencing people so that they strive willingly and enthusiastically towards attainment of group goals”.

A leadership philosophy helps to define and let others know what you expect, what things you value, and how you act as a leader. Different styles of leadership are needed for different situations. Every leader needs to know when and how to display a particular approach of leadership within a group. Leadership strategies define every leader’s personal leadership style. Three leadership styles of a counselor are the following: authoritarian style leaders, democratic style leaders, and laissez-faire style leaders.

Urban Meyer is the head coach for The Ohio State Buckeyes football team. He is 49 years old and was born in Toledo Ohio. He attended University of Cincinnati where he played football. Coach Meyer is married and has three children. Prior to coaching Ohio State he retired from coaching was working as a sports analyst for ESPN. Before retiring and working for ESPN, Coach Meyer was the head coach for the University of Florida. He led the Gators to two BCS championship wins and he held the highest percentages of wins for any active college football coach. (www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com).

A leader is assumed to be an individual who is always involved in the right activities at the right time to ensure everybody in their circle are benefiting. Leaders must maintain confidential appearances to accomplish obligatory aims. A leader must be professionally responsible and self-restraint as everyone will follow you. When someone follows the leadership line, he/she will possess weaknesses and strengths. The writer will talk regarding the weaknesses and strengths that she own as a leader in individual and professional accountability, career planning, personal journey, personal journey discipline, and reflective practice reference behaviors.

One of the most important tasks any business leader must undertake is a personal assessment. An honest inventory of skills, strengths and weaknesses of a business leader can give insight into those areas that need improvement as well as those that can be accepted and learned to work around. A personal inventory also give the business leader the power of information, which a business leader can then use to create situations that emphasize strengths for more consistently positive outcomes. As a business

Leadership according to Andy is far beyond simply being a person who is responsible for an organisation. Employees working in the Organisation should be able to follow in the right direction. The style of leadership he uses is reliant on the current situation. He describes himself as a team leader and uses a participative type of leadership (McCrea, 2002, p.11). He relates with all of the employees while in the meantime placing emphasis on the tasks. He leads through examples.

What is leadership? Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines leadership as “the power or ability to lead other people”. Although this is simply put, it is also correct. But leadership is much more than the ability to lead. The ability is one piece of the puzzle. Other pieces to consider in leadership are education, attributes, and style, just to name a few. In this assignment, I will focus on leadership style. Specifically, I will discuss my style according to the assessment developed by The University of Kent in the UK.

Leadership is literally defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, as “the power or ability to lead other people.” While that definition is accurate, it does not define what makes a good leader and/or leadership style due to the fact that successful leadership, in my opinion, is subjective. My personal definition of leadership is “a person’s ability to accurately assess their team members’ needs and adapt their direction style in order to effectively influence them to enthusiastically accomplish a task or goal.”

Madison Perez is a front desk manager at the Breck Inn in Breckenridge, Colorado. She currently writes the front desk schedule and makes sure that everything is in order while she is gone. She has set up numerous check lists that each employee is responsible for following and making sure that everything gets done in a day. Each task list spread out throughout the day so not only one employee is doing everything but so that every employee is working together like one unit. She is very knowledgeable about every position that is currently at her hotel, so in case of emergencies she can help out and be effective. I know this leader from a previous work opportunity where she was also a front desk manager.

Leadership is a concept most people feel informed enough to discuss, but that few are truly educated sufficiently to comment on. Therefore, it is instructive to consider the leadership styles of people with very different approaches both to better understand the diversity underlying leadership, as well as to appreciate the effective and less effective strategies that underlie different leadership outcomes. For that reason, this essay will consider the styles of two leaders who are less visible in this highly contentious presidential election season: Jill Stein (the Green Party nominee) and Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate. The leadership styles of both are very different, yet they are aligned in the sense that both are outsider candidates struggling to gain momentum from a disaffected electorate. This essay begins with a theoretical discussion of leadership more generally and then turns to the two leaders as case studies, comparing and contrasting them and drawing conclusions about how they both work within the same public sphere and for putatively similar ends (i.e., gaining votes).

A great leader is defined as one who has the ability to use all different styles of leadership styles intermittently depending on the circumstances. There is no one style of leading that can be used as a cure all for every circumstance. There are many different ways of being a leader, as well as many different varieties of leaders. There isn’t necessarily a right and a wrong style of leading. However, there are circumstances that may benefit more from a specific style of leadership. When it comes to law enforcement in general, leadership could have both negative and positive impacts on employees that you work with daily. Officers that have been bestowed with the responsibility to train others have clearly demonstrated an above average ability to do the job, each one in their own way and with their style. There are many different styles of leadership, some of which I have decided to discuss. These styles include bureaucratic, participative, autocratic, diplomatic, and free rain style of leadership.

Leadership has been around for many years yet, still unable to contain it in a particular definition everyone agree on. There are numerous effective leadership styles used in the organization to achieve their goals. “Leadership is becoming increasingly recognized as a crucial issue for organizations facing change in a complex and volatile environment.”(Higgs 2009, p. 165) The leader is the person who can guide and inspire others to do things according to their needs with the success of the group as a goal. “Leadership may be considered as the process of influencing the activities of an organized group in its efforts toward goal setting and goal achievement.” (Stogdill 1950, p. 3) If the team led by powerful leader, it is most likely that the team will be able to meet the goals as well as their purpose and success.

According to Harold Koontz, “leadership is defined as an art or process of influencing people so that they strive willingly and enthusiastically towards attainment of group goals”.

As the name suggests, situational theory recommends that leaders change their style according to situation and temperament of the follower. There is something different about this theory. It doesn't only focus on the leader characteristics but also takes into account the characteristics of the one being led and that is why it is a better approach for Stephen than Bureaucratic approach used by the local authority.