Leadership

Leadership

1. Transformational Leadership

   • Leadership Styles.
     • Autocratic leadership.
       • It´s an extreme form of transactional leadership, in which leaders have absolute power over workers
     • Democratic leadership.
       • It´s the one who makes the final decision, the leaders would participate and invite other people who make up the team to contribute during the decision-making process
     • Transactional leadership.
       • It focuses on the role of supervision, organization and the whole performance of the group. Transactional leadership is a style of leadership in which the leader promotes the compliance of his followers through rewards or punishments.
     • Laissez-faire leadership.
       • The expression “Laissez-faire” is French and means “let it be”, it is used to describe leaders who leave team members to work on their own.
     • Situational leadership.
       • The situational leader brings out the best in his team by creating a democratic work environment and promoting adaptability and flexibility.
   • Characteristics Of a Leader.
     • Self-knowledge:
     • Team-oriented results:
     • Trust and respect:
   • Characteristics of a boss:
     • Authority abuse:
     • Micromanagement:
     • Evaluation of results:
   • Empowerment
     • Empowerment consists of "a process of reducing vulnerability and increasing the capacities of the poor and marginalized sectors, which leads to promoting human and sustainable development among them."

2. Selfesteem

   • Self-esteem in leadership
     • Self-esteem is a set of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, feelings and behavioral tendencies directed towards oneself, towards our way of being, and towards our body and character traits. In short: it is the perceptual evaluation of ourselves.
   • Degrees of self-esteem
     • Having high self-esteem is equivalent to feeling confidently fit for life, or, using the terms of the initial definition, feeling capable and valuable; or feeling accepted as a person.
   • Importance of positive self-esteem
     • Self-esteem enables people to face life with greater confidence, benevolence and optimism, and therefore more easily achieve their goals and self-fulfillment.
   • Elements for self-esteem
     • Self-concept: refers to all the beliefs you have about yourself, it is what you think about yoursSelf-concept elf, about your essence, what you are, your characteristics, your capabilities, among other things. Therefore, self-concept is defined in terms of beliefs, paradigms, judgments and thoughts. Sometimes they have a real basis, but in other cases they do not. Self-concept is something very subjective, it depends on you and what you think you are.

3. Motivation and emotional intelligence

   • Emotional intelligence
     • is defined as a set of skills that a person acquires by birth or learns during his life, where empathy, self-motivation, self-control, enthusiasm and managing emotions stand out.
   • Motivate
     • Emotional intelligence can motivate us, gives us the ability to insist in the face of possible frustrations, have control of our own impulses, regulate our mood to facilitate coexistence with other people at the family and work level.
   • Emotional intelligence in the workplace
     • Knowing how to resolve conflicts, establish consensus, convince others, recognize the ideas of others, work as a team and know how to express what you think without disapproving what others think or do is of vital importance in the workplace.
   • What are emotions?
     • Emotions are psychophysiological impulses that allow us to act instantly in emergency situations to deal with life events, they produce psychophysiological reactions that prepare the body for a specific behavior.
   • Managing emotions
     • The ability to recognize our own feelings and those of others, to motivate ourselves and to adequately manage our emotions, in ourselves and in our relationships to manage feelings in such a way that they can be expressed adequately and with affectivity , allowing healthy coexistence and self-knowledge.
   • Motivation techniques
     • Job Enrichment is a job redesign technique that aims to improve job satisfaction by assigning tasks of greater responsibility to the worker. The employee is given greater autonomy, authority and control over his work in order to enhance his motivation and also his productivity.

4. TYPES OF LEADERSHIP

   • AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
     • AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP IS AN EXTREME FORM OF TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP, IN WHICH LEADERS HAVE ABSOLUTE POWER OVER WORKERS. STAFF MEMBERS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER THEIR SUGGESTIONS, INCLUDING WHETHER THEY ARE FOR THE GOOD OF THE TEAM OR THE COMPANY. MANY PEOPLE FEEL BAD ABOUT BEING TREATED THIS WAY.
   • BUREAUCRATIC LEADERSHIP
     • ALL BUREAUCRATIC LEADERS DO EVERYTHING AS PREDEFINED IN A BOOK. THEY FOLLOW ALL THE RULES RIGOROUSLY AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING THEIR FOLLOWERS DO IS ACCURATE. IT IS A VERY APPROPRIATE LEADERSHIP STYLE TO WORK WHEN THERE ARE MANY RISKS IN TERMS OF SECURITY OR WHEN HIGH AMOUNTS OF MONEY COME INTO PLAY.
   • CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP
     • CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP IS MUCH LIKE TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP, AS ALL LEADERS IN THE ORGANIZATION INSPIRE ENTHUSIASM IN TEAMS AND ARE OVERLY ENERGETIC IN LEADING ALL EMPLOYEES.
   • PARTICIPATORY OR DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
     • THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER IS THE ONE WHO MAKES THE LAST DECISION, THE LEADERS WOULD PARTICIPATE AND INVITE OTHER PEOPLE WHO MAKE UP THE TEAM TO CONTRIBUTE DURING THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS. THIS NOT ONLY INCREASES JOB SATISFACTION BUT ALSO FAVORS THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SKILLS. TEAM MEMBERS FEEL IN CONTROL OF THEIR OWN DESTINY SO THEY ARE MOTIVATED TO WORK HARD, RATHER THAN FOR A FINANCIAL REWARD.
   • LAISSEZ-FAIRE LEADERSHIP
     • THE EXPRESSION "LAISSEZ-FAIRE" IS FRENCH AND MEANS "LET IT BE", IT IS USED TO DESCRIBE LEADERS WHO LET THE MEMBERS WHO MAKE UP THE TEAM WORK ON THEIR OWN.