Situational Leadership

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Introduction

Leadership is the ability of a person to influence others thoughts, actions and decisions. This influence is exerted by a leader over his followers through his personality, actions and interactions. This is why, leaders are persons with a charismatic personality, owners of effective communication ability and a trend setter in what they do.

Wherever, in society or in an organization, a group of people are involved, it becomes important to give

Therefore, we can contrive that a perfect leadership style is not a rigid one but a flexible combination of any of these leadership styles based on the situation. This new leadership style is named as situational leadership style.

The situational leadership style allows leaders to adopt a different leadership approach at different situations. A leader following this style goes through the following way:

? Setting up the

A leader following path-goal leadership style goes through the following way:

? Setting up the goals

? Assessing the prevailing conditions

? Assessing followers? traits

? Assessing capabilities of himself/herself

? Choose a leadership style or a combination of leadership styles best suitable in the available situation

? Accessing the process and outcome

? Rewarding followers when they meet or exceed the expectations

The reward given by leader here acts as a motivating factor for the followers. Thus, the path-goal leadership style is the motivation based version of situational leadership. I am applying the situational leadership theory and the path-goal leadership theory in my professional life by studying my local leadership Mrs. Kidd. In analyzing, her style I find that situational leadership is based on personality and experience of between the leader and the follower. My local leader Mrs. Kidd has an high-directive ?low supportive style(Northouse,2016,p.94). I must say that I would function in the coaching style with high-directive and high supportive behavior (Northouse,2016,p.94). The reason being for me function in coaching style because I have high expectations when I am leading people, but I give support for the expectations to meet. In addition, I understand that you must be able to change with different things arise in the work environment. Situational leadership