Leadership is a very important part of communication. Many of us look to others to guide us through decision-making. There are however different kinds of leaders that exhibit four different kinds of decision-making styles: laissez-faire, participative, consultative, and authoritarian. Authoritative leaders do not take others opinions into consideration when making a decision. This type of leader doesn’t take as much time to make a decision, but the group members tend to be less satisfied with the decisions. Consultative leaders use a pretty fair approach to making a decision. For instance they do take the opinions of those in their group and then make a final decision his or herself. Consultative leaders don’t always take the opinions of those in their groups seriously though, and that’s where problems arise. With participative leadership style involve others in their group to help decide. This type of leader basically just guides the group members, but overall has no more power than anyone else. The communication level is high in this type of decision-making style and generally works really well. The laissez-faire type of decision-making style involves almost no leadership, sometimes even none. This type of leader tends to be under the radar and is hard to find when there needs to be guiding and a problem needs to be solved. All of these leadership styles have their positives and negatives, but regardless leadership is necessary to run a cooperative society.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Types of Leadership
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I had to read “Leadership is a very important part of communication” twice. I saw it two ways.
ReplyDeleteOne, leadership is important in the sense that someone has to have the courage of a leader to reach out to others in communication.
Two, if you change the order of the statement to “Communication is a very important part of Leadership.” I think communication is an important aspect in leadership. In order to be a good leader, people must be able to express their thoughts and ideas and in some cases get other people to agree with them.
While creating my comment this made me think about how some leaders take lead in the background. Everyone follows under a different type of leader, but in my opinion it doesn’t always have to be out in the open. I know a lot of good leader who have worked behind the scenes in the planning of an event or a meeting. Some good leaders show modesty in their abilities of taking initiative, gathering data, or whatever task they need to complete or help with.