2. Contents
•What is Leadership ?
•Why leadership is important ?
•How can we improve leadership qualities?
•Leadership Styles
3. What is Leadership ?
Leader : “the person who leads or commands a group,
organization, or country” – oxford dictionary
Leadership : “the action of leading a group of people or an
organization, or the ability to do this” – oxford dictionary
4. Why leadership is important?
•Leaders provide vision
•Motive power to group efforts
•Leaders make hard decisions
•Leaders make sure that the given goals are achieved
•Leaders support/ improve skills
5. How Can We Improve Leadership
Qualities?
•Become a good listener
•Planning
•Motivating
•Discipline
•Take calculated risk
•Accept their mistakes
•Communicate frequently
6. Leadership Styles
Democratic / Participative
Encourages decision making from different perspectives – leadership
may be emphasized throughout the organization
- Consultative
- Persuasive
Helps to motivate and involve
workers feel ownership
Improves the sharing of ideas
But Very time consuming
7. Leadership Styles
Autocratic
Leader makes decisions without reference to anyone else
High degree of dependency on the leader
Can create de-motivation within the team
Maybe valuable in some types of business
where decision need to be made quickly
Helps for High level management
8. Leadership Styles
Free Rein Style
“Let it be” – the leadership responsibilities are shared by all
Can be very useful in business where creative ideas are important
Can be highly motivational as people have control over their working life
Can make coordination and decision making
time-consuming and lacking in overall direction.
Relies on good team work
Not suitable for less experience
9. Leadership Styles
Factors of choosing the correct leadership style
•Understand of the situation
•Objective
•Different people have different learning styles. (New employee)
•Depends on the situation
10. Conclusion
“Leadership style is the approach for providing the right to the team
members , implementing planning strategies and motivating people
by including all the three leadership styles”
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut
through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody
can understand.” —General Colin Powell
11. Reference
•Leadership Skills
• Improving Your Leadership Skills. 2013. Improving Your Leadership Skills. [ONLINE]
Available at: http://www.crfonline.org/orc/ca/ca-2.html. [Accessed 21 November 2013].
•Leadership Qualities
• How to Improve Leadership Quality. 2013. How to Improve Leadership Quality: 6 Steps
(with Pictures). [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.wikihow.com/Improve-Leadership-
Quality. [Accessed 21 November 2013].
•Benefits of leadership
• Brian Dodd on Leadership. 2013. The Top 10 Benefits Of Leadership. [ONLINE] Available
at: http://www.briandoddonleadership.com/2011/04/28/thetop-10-benefits-of-
leadership/. [Accessed 21 November 2013].
Editor's Notes
Good morning everyone, I think some of you are already leaders and others may take the position as leaders in the future, so I thought about talking Leadership , something important to everyone.
A leader is the one who inspires , motivates and leads people to accomplish goals
Leadership is all about influencing a group of people for achieving a common goal where one person leads the whole group
They give us direction and tell us where we are going.
Leader motivates the group member to achieve the task ,
Leader tracks every member of the group and check the progress to make sure that the member will achieve the targets on time
Leaders are busy and when sometimes when a member comes and tell something he remembers only half of the informaiton , that will make the member to de motivate, leader shuold be a good lisenter. You can look for the key words and it makes recalling easier.
Making plans is a key thing, leader should plan short term plans as well as long terms plans to achieve goals and through that to achieve objectives.
People in all levels must feel as if they needed, team member should be motivated to get the work done properly. As a leader you can motivate by keeping them inform, challenge a person , praising ,
Getting all the ideas from everyone before taking any decision , this is good when the team agree after the decision made. The team will be collectively responsible for the outcome .
Help the leader to get the knowledge and the skills of teams members.
Used when there need to be a quick decision . Or there is no need of others to take that decision .
This style is good for High level management
Emplyess have to follow irders and they have only a little opprtunity .
Maximum freedom to their team member. No one to check them , if its wrong
