Leadership Styles Overview Lecture

Presenter Introduction

• Speaker: Jen, Career Coach at Indeed
• Experience: Over 10 years in career services
• Audience: Job seekers, roles ranging from individual contributors to CEOs

Purpose of the Lecture

• Discuss eight common leadership styles
• Explore benefits, challenges, and signs of natural leadership styles
• Provide strategy to choose best-suited leadership style for various situations

Leadership Styles

1. Coach Leadership Style

• Characteristics:
  • Recognizes strengths, weaknesses, and motivations
  • Assists in setting goals and providing feedback
  • Sets clear expectations and creates motivating environments
• Benefits:
  • Promotes development, empowerment, and confidence
  • Fosters positive company culture
• Challenges:
  • Time-intensive, requiring one-on-one time
• Indicators:
  • Supportive, offers guidance, values learning

2. Visionary Leadership Style

• Characteristics:
  • Drives progress and change, inspires and earns trust
  • Establishes organizational bonds, fosters confidence
• Benefits:
  • Helpful in fast-growing or transforming organizations
• Challenges:
  • Future-oriented, may overlook present-day issues
• Indicators:
  • Persistent, strategic, optimistic

3. Servant Leadership Style

• Characteristics:
  • Puts team first, focuses on fulfillment and satisfaction
  • Encourages collaboration and engagement
• Benefits:
  • Boosts morale, productivity, and loyalty
• Challenges:
  • Risk of burnout, difficulty in being authoritative
• Indicators:
  • Motivational, excellent communicator, team-oriented

4. Autocratic Leadership Style

• Characteristics:
  • Decision-maker, focused on results and efficiency
  • Little input from others, expects compliance
• Benefits:
  • Efficient in strict guideline environments
• Challenges:
  • Stifles creativity, causes stress
• Indicators:
  • Confident, rule-following, structured

5. Laissez-faire Leadership Style

• Characteristics:
  • Delegates tasks, provides autonomy
  • Little supervision, focuses on delegation
• Benefits:
  • Encourages accountability and creativity
• Challenges:
  • Requires experienced and self-motivated team
• Indicators:
  • Values freedom and autonomy, good at delegating

6. Democratic Leadership Style

• Characteristics:
  • Combines autocratic and laissez-faire styles
  • Seeks input and feedback from team
• Benefits:
  • Fosters engagement and satisfaction
• Challenges:
  • Time-consuming, costly
• Indicators:
  • Values discussion, flexible

7. Pacesetter Leadership Style

• Characteristics:
  • Focuses on performance and high standards
  • Holds team accountable for goals
• Benefits:
  • Drives fast results, energetic environment
• Challenges:
  • Stressful, not ideal for those needing mentorship
• Indicators:
  • Goal-oriented, high-performing, competent

8. Bureaucratic Leadership Style

• Characteristics:
  • Follows hierarchy and fixed duties
  • Values rules and procedures
• Benefits:
  • Efficient in regulated industries
• Challenges:
  • Restricts creativity, slow to change
• Indicators:
  • Detail-oriented, task-focused, disciplined

Choosing and Developing Leadership Style

• Leadership is not limited to managers
• Choose a style that feels authentic or aligns with strengths
• Reflect on decision-making, goals focus, motivation source, team dynamic
• Strategies:
  • Gain insights from experienced leaders
  • Experiment with different approaches
  • Seek feedback from peers and managers

Conclusion

• Recap of the eight leadership styles
• Encourage exploration of styles for career growth
• Recommended resources: Career guide articles

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