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Drazen, Australia
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Adjusting, Altering and Varying the Leadership Style
After reading briefly on the leadership styles as per Goleman it had me thinking, are leaders aware that they are using particular leadership styles? And do leaders think before they act as to what leadership style they will use? And would there be a difference if they thought about this rather than simply acting? Are they able to change their style if needed?
I think theoretically it could make a difference as they would be more in line with what is required for the situation. Maybe they would also consider things that weren't considered otherwise?
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Jose Luis Roces
Professor, Argentina
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Flexible Leadership Styles In our center for developing leadership (CDL) of ITBA (private university), we have done a lot of training and experience with executive groups using Goleman-Boyatzis model. The most frequent issue is that managers react using their own temperament & traits and they forget the need of flexibility and awareness according to the situation. Our solution is training them on the basis of a tutoring program in their own context. They don't need a lot of theory, they react better when somebody shows them their mistakes and the way to be more effective.
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Peeters, Belgium
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Changing Leadership Styles Maybe that's the difference between a born or well trained leader and a starter. To immediately feel and act intuitively instead of thinking how to act first.
I compare it with learning to drive a car. After training and especially lots of driving you create automatism. Still these leaders probably reflect afterwards and evaluate to learn for next time.
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Jose Luis Roces
Professor, Argentina
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Learning Leadership Styles Effectively we can learn to be a better leader by training in the Goleman-Boyatzis model, but we need assistance of somebody (also trained) in a role of tutoring. Frequently that is a person who knows the context and the situations where the leader makes decisions, but he doesn't occupy a formal position in the organizational structure. His role is to develop interpersonal skills and competences.
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Gabriel Dirlau
Manager, Romania
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Utilising Leadership Styles Dear all, I believe that most leaders are passing through different styles, being influenced by the context.
For sure there also exists a dominant style behaviour. Kind regards.
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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Behavior Patterns Not that the word "style" in leadership style is already suggesting there is a pattern in the behavior of the leader.
This behavior pattern is normally caused by a natural inclination from a person to certain task behavior, relationship behavior or change behavior (irrespective of the circumstances or the follower).
Jose Luis Roces' experience that not many executives are capable of adapting their behavior according to the situation supports this view.
However it is possible for leaders to adapt their behavioral pattern according to the situation or to the follower. Such adaptation can be either intuitive (natural, automatic) or conscious (learned, managed).
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Bruno Perboni
Consultant, Italy
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Applying Our Own Leadeship Style I found very few leaders able to adapt their leadership style to the situation. In a company, usually every leader is automatically focused on his own style. The market pressure also doesn't give him much time to consider the style.
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Joscelin Trouwborst
Management Consultant, Curacao
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Leadership Styles and Context Only those who thoroughly understand the context can lead in that context. This is where there is a flaw in appointed leadership in power positions. Many in power positions have too much ego to allow others to lead in cases where others are more knowledgeable and/or skilled.
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Roy Fitzgerald
Teacher, Australia
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Skill to Apply Leadership Styles Can be Learnt The experience I have is that most people discussing or participating in a course for leaders are unaware of leadership styles.
Many appointed leaders do not understand that another person in the group (non-appointed) may be the leader of the group. Despite the fact that one person is given a leadership / management position (in an employment situation) people may still refer to another for leadership / guidance.
It is essential there is no confusion to the styles. The skill to apply various characteristics from the different styles in leadership can be learnt but practice is essential. Knowing the different characteristics can only assist in the application.
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Sylvia Grant
Consultant, Australia
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Leadership Styles Drazen has raised a very interesting question.
Also, before anyone can effectively implement any leadership style, that person must first of all be a leader. It begs the question: should those in a position of authority first of all determine whether or not he/she is a leader before selecting which leadership style to adopt?
There are many managers, but only very few real leaders...
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Dr Ray Chatwin, United Kingdom
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Leadership Styles Not Easy to Change Leadership 'styles' are related to personality characteristics that change little over one's lifetime, so they can't be picked of the supermarket shelf. Though there is room for some sensitivity training and some 360 degree feedback to modify behaviours.
I suggest that the venerable work of Blake and Mouton is probably correct - most managers most of the time try to balance a concern for getting the job done with a concern to keep everyone onside. Workplaces aren't country clubs, but neither are they punitive institutions.
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isaiah
Accountant, Kenya
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Not Thinking about Appropriate Leadership Style Many a times people re/act to a situation apparently without thinking about the situation, level of skill, motivation or willingness -to cooperate -of the subjects.
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CHIEDU UDE, Nigeria
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Molding of a Leadership Style Leadership style? Pattern? Experience, mentors, learned behaviour, bottom line and operating environment all combine to mold style.
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jorge anibal hoyos hoyos
Manager, Colombia
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Resonance is Mandatory in any Style Depending on the cases to be faced up, the challenges to tackle the effects of the styles will be different if you take a particular style as a template.
Hence from my experience creating resonance as mentioned in the summary above is mandatory for any style to succeed but not the style in itself is the rule.
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desu rama mohan
Professor, India
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Leadership Style Practice First an understanding of the nature of different styles is needed, as well as the range one can vary within the situation. It then depends on the personality. Trying to practice further in the day to day work will definitely enhance your skills.
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narelle kelvin
Australia
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Wise Leadership is Rare My reaction to this is to contemplate the various types of leadership I have worked under over the years and also consider how I have been as a leader myself. The commanding style was definitely the m...
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Roy Fitzgerald
Teacher, Australia
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The Skills to Apply Leadership Styles Both management and leadership can be learned, either by training, knowledge and experience... These tend to be the factors of competence. To be a competent manager a person needs to experience differ...
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kvssiyer
Consultant, India
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Interactive Leadership Training When leaders lead they do not think in terms of style they were taught and trained. It is a natural phenomenon. No doubt trained leaders are more effective than others when they merge into the subject...
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Mahmoud Al-Fayyad, Jordan
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Leadership Variables Many of the writers indicated worthy points of view. Leader's practices reveal that - in addition to situation - morale, experience, intuition, training, and/or consciousness are all intervening varia...
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Bezeck Kwanisayi, Zimbabwe
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Utilising Leadership Styles Personally, I think leaders/managers don't restrict themselves to certain leadership styles. My opinion is that they use the contingent or situational approach (managing matters as they arise dependin...
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alberto ardila
Student (University), Colombia
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Leaders Create Resonance In the communitary work I know, leadership is always any combination of visionary, coaching and affiliative and democratic styles. I do not think leadership depends exclusively on leader person's pers...
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Benjamin Ocansey, Ghana
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Blending Leadership Styles I don't think that most leaders consciously follow any of the six leadership styles. They tend to blend all in varying degrees to suit the situation. It is the proportion of each in the blend that det...
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Barrett W. Horne
Consultant, Canada
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Self-awareness of Leader A range of helpful points have been made. I would add the critical importance of a high level of self-awareness needed to reflect on what are appropriate leadership 'styles' in various contexts.
Only...
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David Esko
Management Consultant, United States
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Situational Awareness / Leadership and Natural Abilities The leadership "style" used, should always depend on the nature of the project you're managing, situational factors on that project, your experience, the politics, culture, chemistry (personalities of...
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Melnyk, Canada
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I in Now - Presencing Leadership style definitely must relate to self-awareness and the inner and outer dialogue of the leader. A leader should be attuned to what she is seeing in the system, and what others are experienci...
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robert trowhill
Consultant, Canada
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Formation and Removing Pathways in our Brain As we gain experience in managing, our basic responses are shaped by our ego. Over time our previous responses form pathways in our brain that I refer to as a matrix. These responses eventually become...
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David Esko
Management Consultant, United States
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Situational Awareness and Leadership In the process of both becoming and being a leader, there are factors that are very difficult to learn to handle and many people put in leadership positions never learn them! They consist partly of: o...
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Chau Hansotia, India
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Leadership Styles & Effective Leaders In reality, we can not tell exactly what style a particular leader adopts. A leader may have 2 or more leadership styles in which one is dominant. In normal conditions, leaders usually use their domin...
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Whitehead, United Kingdom
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Adapting Leadership Styles The best leaders can recognize any given situation and easily adapt between all the styles of leadership. One size fits all does not make the grade. If you are a parent just think of how your children...
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Adapting your Leadership Style Each of the six leadership styles may exist but each one has both strengths and weaknesses. Also each style has its place in the leadership debate and every leader should show each style in the releva...
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Graham Williams
Management Consultant, South Africa
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Flexible Adaption of Styles to Suit Situations? Another side of the coin we are discussing here is the value of traits, characteristics, behaviours that reflect authenticity, reliability, discernment, openness, real presence (not the same as charis...
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Helen Strong
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Developing Leaders to Become Conscious of Their Leadership Styles In coaching I have found a useful way to make people conscious of leadership styles is to get them to bring the topic into their sphere of experience. Get them to link their feelings and reactions to ...
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Molokanova
Professor, Ukraine
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Scale of Leadership I would add the critical importance of the leadership scale. There may be a leader of a local team, a leader of an entire region or industry, or a leader on a global scale. Depending on the scale of l...
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Irene Lyimo
Manager, Tanzania
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Leaders Just React Rather than Think First My understanding towards leadership as being a leader and having had leaders leading me is that leaders react to actions and do not think of the leadership style they should select in the context of ...
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K R Sethuraman
Professor, Malaysia
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Default Leadership Style + Contextual Variations I have been in various academic leadership positions since 1981 (4 decades now). After trying out various models, I feel that for academic environment, my default style that is most effective for me t...
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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Default Leadership Style Like Cruise Control? Very good discussion…
@K R Sethuraman: Thank you for your analogy which I think is really helpful to understand this essential issue in managing and leading other people. Most members seem to agree t...
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Bjorn Smulders
Business Consultant, Norway
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Don´t Expect Others to Think or be Like You! @Jose Luis Roces: Hi, and thanks for your input! This is something I experience a lot myself and see in others.
We constantly have to remember not to (automatically) think that others are driven by t...
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Gregory Johnson
Coach, United States
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Discipline and Consciousness in Leadership Styles There are 2 words that come to mind; Discipline and Consciousness:
- As professionals, self-discipline is required to be as effective as we purport to be. That discipline begins with becoming an exce...
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Maurice Hogarth
Consultant, United Kingdom
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Pareto Principle in Applying Leadership and Management Styles Accepting that Goleman's depictions refer to 'leadership' but I consider that the focus on leadership is somewhat distorting. Leadership, for me, is an aspect of 'management' and the styles, as per Go...
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Tracey Caesar
Student (MBA)
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Knowing your Followers and Altering your Leadership Style All leaders have followers. They should, as quickly as possible, evaluate the demographics and traits of your followers by:
Having a cursory look at them.
Trying to break the ice by communicat...
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Dr. Alan Williams
Professor, Thailand
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Utilising and Altering / Varying Leadership Styles is not Difficult @Jose Luis Roces: I agree with this to some extent. I worked closely with Dr. Richard Boyatziz, Dr. Richard Golemans' research and the HayMcBer Leadership research center. I've also helped numerous or...
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Howard Jackson
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Adaptive Leadership Behaviour Traits I Utilise in my Leadership Styles for Varying Situations
I focus on ensuring the achievement of outcomes whilst ensuring the team understands their work contributes to these goals.
I learn by reflecting on my performance and that of the team.
I ma...
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Sunita Rani
Teacher, India
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Most of the Leaders Use a Mix of Styles I experienced that most leaders I have worked with use a mix of two or three styles. I found them lacking in using visionary and coaching styles. The remaining other styles are used as per the demand ...
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Trilok Sindhwani
Consultant, India
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Leadership - is a Dynamic Optimisation of the Given Situation, Cruise-destination and Team-spirit @Jaap de Jonge: Each leadership venture is unique in its situation, destination, and team composition. Leadership is the skill of analysing and optimising available resources to achieve the desired go...
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