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What is Leadership?

Being a manager rarely qualifies you to be a leader, the primary difference being, Managers act as enablers to their team's success, by providing the resources and guidance, which may include imbibing them with the necessary training and also alleviating any impediments that they might have come across.

However, a leader is someone who does not necessarily possess any influence or authority over the team. A great leader can also be one amongst us, a fellow collaborator who inspires us to follow them through their originality and novelty of ideas. This creativity usually is fuelled by their specific experience of the problem at hand and can save valuable time and resources if their plan of action is implemented.

A leader, in a nutshell, is someone who garners followers under their inspiration and not through a hierarchy.

"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing." - Tom Peters ‍

Visionary Leadership

This style uses its expertise in the subject as the primary motivator to inspire their followers. Their inherent ability to come up with clear a trajectory and articulate a clear vision makes priorities clear to every team member. These style of leaders tend to leave much liberty to their followers to find their means to the task.

Pace-setting Leadership

This style places a strong emphasis on the quality of performance on the leader and expects its followers to emulate the same. Is handy in pushing a highly motivated team to across a challenging deadline.

Commanding Leadership

The coercive style of leadership uses authority and power as the primary motivation towards people as an influence. The leader here, demands compliance with the power of authority vested in them. It's often attributed to executives who tend to overuse their body and end up hurting the overall employee confidence, as they exert their will.

Democratic Leadership

This style revolves around consensus building and every collaborator having an equal say in the collective decision. The leader fosters team flexibility and ownership of the cause. This method is most useful in trying to find out fresh ideas while might elongate the decision making the timeline as the process tends to be time-consuming.

‍Affiliative Leadership

This is the type of leadership that is often followed by empathetic leaders; this kind of leaders tend to put people at the heart of success and are sensitive to their problems. They prioritize people over goals and creating a harmonious and balanced culture. These leaders are active relationship builders and influencing loyalty within team members.

Coaching Leadership

This style clearly defines the roles to be played by each member in the team along with the respective tasks to be focused on. The leadership may also seek suggestions from the task owners to ensure accountability of ownership. Though the leader decides on the quality of the outcome, the two-way communication makes it an excellent way for everyone to understand the big picture and where their contribution fits.