Leadership Style Coaching
Leadership excellence depends on both on personal characteristics such as charisma and the competencies of choosing and applying the most suitable leadership style in a given situation.
Leadership styles can be categorised as follows:
- Autocratic leadership
- Bureaucratic leadership
- Process-oriented leadership
- Transactional leadership
- Goal-oriented leadership
- People-oriented leadership
- Participative or Democratic leadership
- Charismatic leadership
- Transformational leadership
- Laissez-faire leadership
Depending on the corporate culture, the personality and character of staff members, the industry, the degree of specialisation of team members and other factors there is one particular leadership style that is likely to be most conducive to performance. Leadership style coaching facilites the process of choosing and applying the most suitable leadership style in a given situation.
Leadership Style Coaching amongst other things deals with:
- Assessing your team members character, behaviour patterns, organisational & team culture and other environmental variables that determine leadership style
- Analysing your own personality, skills, characteristics and leadership style
- Evaluating your current leadership style and defining steps to adapt your style to the current environment
- Planning for leadership development and strategies to leverage resources etc.
Your benefits include:
- Improvement in team performance
- Improvement in interpersonal relationships
- More clarity and insight about how your leadership style affects team or company performance
- More insight and knowledge about techniques to motivate staff members
- Better career prospects