Leadership

UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP STYLES WITH THE PORPUSE OF BEING A MORE EFFECTIVE LEADER.

Leadership style impacts the motivations of employees, either positive or negative. Work group performance is a direct reflection of a leader's effort to understand employees and to match a leadership style to employee goals and needs. If the leader creates a positive working climate, it will increased productivity, at the same time how a leader acts can drive a climate to be productive or unproductive. There are factors that will influence the leadership styles of my group partners, and they are as following:

• The leader personal background: Personality, values, knowledge, ethics, and experience the leader has.

• Staff being supervised: Staff are individuals with different backgrounds and personalities. The leadership style used will depend upon the individual and how he/she will respond best to it.

• The organization: Traditions, philosophy, concerns and values of the organization will influence how the leader/manager will act.

Some of the ways of understanding my group partners leadership styles, are base in the decision making, the need for control, the willingness to reach goals, the assertiveness (speaking up), the working with others, the contribution, the risk-taking, the reporting, the energy level, the future planning, how to be more productive, developing others, responding to crisis, handling change. Many of these actions are demonstrated in all the of my group members, even knowing that they are two different leadership styles in our group, the director and the problem solver.

Trying to understand the director leadership style from two of my group members, shows me that they are fast paced, they take control, they are confident, strong willed, assertive, decisive, productive, they want results, they organized quickly, they see opportunities, they take action, they are natural leaders, and they will direct....