My Leadership Style: My Personal Types Of Leadership

Leadership is defined as the action of leading a group of people or organization in order to accomplish certain goals. A leader must possess certain power or ability to hold a leadership position (Al-Sawai, 2013). There are several leadership styles identified over the years. Regardless of his leadership type, a leader must be able to influence his organization and be aware what motivates his team members, so that the goals can be accomplished. My personal type of leadership
When completing the Leadership assessment, I received the following results: Participatory: 14, Free rein: 13, Autocratic: 12. I mostly agree with the results of the assessment. I try to be flexible and act according to

Usually leaders display many different traits. I personally think that autocratic and free rein can be pretty much equally harmful for a good team work. It mainly depends on the business setting and the team needs whether a certain type would meet the organization’s needs. In the case of autocratic style, all decisions are made singlehandedly thus opening the door for many mistakes. Matters are viewed one-sided and many issues can be overlooked and misinterpreted. Such style seems to suppress the natural desire of many people for creativity and contribution to their work; it can feel very suffocating and making people believe that they cannot make a difference. The advantage of this style is displayed in crisis when the decisions must be made fast and enacted immediately (Amanchukwu, Stanley, Ololube, 2015). In the case of free rein too much liberty is given to the employees and sometimes the work place might look like anarchy. There are many situations when the person that manages the business must step in and offer guidance while enforcing the rules and regulations, and when that doesn’t happen, the people might feel lost. If too much liberty is given many due dates might be missed; the organization might start looking very “disorganized” and even unprofessional. Such leadership style might be beneficial in businesses that require their team members to possess flexibility, creativity, or innovative

That leader was making most of the decisions himself, despite the fact that he was sometimes pretending to ask others for feedback. All team members knew that regardless of their input, at the end that leader would do whatever he decides to do, often without regard to the immediate needs of the team. Needless to say, that fact did not make people happy, because they did not feel empowered to offer ideas and make a good difference in their work place. At the same time, depending on the situation that leader sometimes chose not to get involved in situations that clearly required immediate guidance to straighten matters and enforce policies. The result of such “mixed signals” and not consistent leadership was that many people started leaving the organization and services were not done according to the standards of good care. That leader did not display strong nursing leadership qualities to promote healthy work environment and the organization was managed