Leadership styles-T3-W4-P1

Leadership
Characteristics and Styles.

Unit 2

✓ Describe characteristics of a good leader
✓ Activity1
✓ Discuss the benefits of a good leader.
✓ Activity2
✓ Understand different types of leadership
✓ Activity 3
✓ Recommend an appropriate leadership

style.

✓ Activity4

Activities: LMS

Learning objectives

Key terms

• delegate

• autocratic

• democratic

• Laissez-faire

Starter

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What does this picture reveal?

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Who is a leader?

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Can you think of any famous leaders?

Definition of leadership

A leader is a person who controls a

group of people by influencing and

inspiring them.

Multiple Choice

How do effective leaders inspire others?

• Lead by example and see how great are the employees

• Stay in their office with little interaction with their teams.

• Micro-manage their teams which creates low morale.

• Do not believe in the potential of their groups.

Characteristics of a good leader

Strong vision

Honesty

Team building

Problem-
solving

Ability to
mentor

Communication

skills

Delegation

Multiple Choice

A leader has all these characteristics except....

• visionary

• disciplined

• respectful

• dishonest

Characteristics of a leader

Vision: a mental image of what the future could be like

Delegation: passing authority to a subordinate to do specific tasks.

Mentor: to advise, teach or train a less experienced one.

Multiple Choice

A hotel manager who asks a r to manage the hotel for a few hours with authority to make decisions regarding customer requests and complaints.

This is an example of........

• leadership

• delegation

• management

• training

Benefits of a good leadership

Staff

productivity

Staff

retention

Strong
teams

Positive
example

Business
success

Multiple Choice

Good leadership affects employees and the organization in all the followings except....

• employees will stay longer in the organization.

• employees are motivated

• productivity will increase

• employees will be often absent.

Leadership Styles

is a person who controls a group of people by influencing and inspiring them.

Leadership style is the way in which people and resources are used to achieve

goals and objectives.

Leadership styles

Autocratic leadership

➢ He takes all decisions alone.

➢ He gives orders (dictator).

➢ One way communication.

➢ He does not share information, decisions with

employees

Which organizations adopt autocratic leadership?

Poll

One of the following is not a feature of an autocratic management style.

• The manager makes all decisions.

• The manager has total control.

• The manager encourages team work.

• The manager closely supervises employees.

Poll

Leaders who do not listen to others and make all the decisions themselves.

• democratic

• autocratic

• laissez-faire

Democratic leadership

➢ Managers and staff take decisions.

➢ He listens to employees' opinions.

➢ Two-way communication.

➢ He shares information, decisions with employees

When is it ideal to adopt democratic leadership?

➢ Staff are skilled.

➢ Plenty of time to accomplish the task.

➢ Number of employees

Multiple Choice

This leader encourages group members to participate, but retains the final say over the decision-making process.

• autocratic

• laissez-faire

• democratic

Laissez-faire leadership

➢ Hands-off leadership

➢ Allows employees to take own decisions and work pace.

➢ Takes control when needed!

➢ Delegates work

When is it ideal to adopt laissez-faire leadership?

➢ Staff are highly skilled and motivated.

➢ Innovation required.

Which companies adopt this type of leadership?

Poll

Highly skilled, motivated and innovative employees should be managed by a..........leader

• democratic

• laissez-faire

• autocratic

Key Terms

To mentor means to help or give advice to a less experienced person.

To delegate means to give a task to another employee to complete.

Autocratic leadership is a way to manage resources without having to ask
anyone for their opinion.

Democratic leadership is a way to manage resources by having employees
share their ideas.

Laissez-faire leadership is a way to manage resources by having employees
make their own decisions.

Poll

Did you understand the lesson today?

• Yes

• No

• A little

Poll

Was the lesson ........?

• Fun

• Boring

Poll

Do you feel confident to explain the 3 types of leadership?

• Yes

• No

• a little