Daniel Goleman (2002) created the Six Leadership Styles and found, in his research, that Leaders used one of these styles at any one time. Each of the Six Leadership styles comes from the use of Emotional Intelligence: Being acutely aware of the environment, his/her emotional needs and feelings and adjusting the style to suit the…
Managing Performance Through Effective Leadership Styles
Traditionally, effective Leadership Styles were thought of being a ‘one size fits all’ approach: that any Manager could pick the best off the shelf model and mirror this to create successful Leadership results. The accepted model, back a few decades ago, was that of the democratic Leadership style, and while this is generally more successful…
Emotional Intelligence Theory: Highlighting and Developing Leadership Skills
Leadership is Emotional, and Emotional intelligence theory and Leadership go hand in hand. – but first, some quotes: Emotional Intelligence – “is the ability to monitor one’s own and other’s emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one’s thinking and actions” (Salovey & Mayer 1990). “Emotional Intelligence is a way…
Trait Theory of Leadership and Its Key Characteristics
The trait theory of leadership is an early assumption that leaders are born and due to this belief, those that possess the correct qualities and traits are better suited to leadership. This theory often identifies behavioural characteristics that are common in leaders. Trait theory of leadership is one of the first academic theories of leadership…
The Leadership versus Management debate: What’s the difference?
Leadership versus management, isn’t it the same thing? Nope! Leaders set goals and direction, challenging the norm, and seeking new ways of working towards goals. Managers on the other hand maintain the status quo. They specialise on conformance to the standard. They manage their teams and individuals. And they organise, direct and control to achieve…
Successful Leadership Characteristics: A Learned Skill
Leadership Characteristics can be learned over the course of a career and the following page will show the most important characteristics of successful leaders, which have been demonstrated over time. Whilst not an exhaustive list, it represents the most important traits for a Leader to be successful and therefore a good benchmark for others to…
Leadership Definition – What are the Commonalities?
If you search for a Leadership definition…… here are some examples of what you’ll find: “Someone who exercises influence over other people.” (Huczynski et al 1993) “Creating a vision to which others aspire and energising them to work towards that vision” (Anita Roddick) “Without a Leader, nothing happens…” (Michael Hammer) “The capacity to create a…
How do you define Leadership?
There are many ways to define leadership, but in essence, it “is a process that influences other people to achieve an objective.” Now that’s out of the way, let’s see what that really means. It is about being forward looking, Inspirational to others, and orientated to achieve results, winning the hearts and minds of those…