Leadership Styles: Make the Right Choice

Emerging leadership styles adapted to involved, dispersed, and diverse workforces include the following:

Charismatic

Charismatic leadership styles focus on emotional influence with followers. This style is distinguished from transformational in that the charismatic leader is focused on the vision or cause and enlists and engages follower for the cause.

Transformational

Transformational and Charismatic Leaders share some characteristics. Transformational leadership adds to the charismatic style in that the successful transformational leader changes and shapes the values, beliefs and attitudes of followers. Followers are often motivated to perform beyond expecations.Transformational leadership increases employee performance, particularly in times of volatile conditions.

Contextual

Contextual leaders are those that are able to bring order out of chaos. They are able to create patterns of attention and develop networks.

Contexual leaders may compliment transformational leaders by

• Using knowledge and information to guide actions
• Developing internal and external networks
• Fostering innovative performance

Hard and Soft

Harvard Business Review has recently published articles referring to this style of leadership which combines effective leadership in both relationships and tough-minded data driven decision making.

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