Leadership Style

Knowing the characteristics of different leadership styles can help business leaders adapt and lead effectively in any situation. As human beings, we are all different and so we all have different leadership styles. It is advantageous to understand these and how we interact together so we can create a homogenous team.

Ian will cover the most common types of leadership and how they can affect you and how you develop and recognise different styles.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Strong leadership is central to any business success including property. Achieving this requires the flexibility to switch between different relevant leadership styles.
• Coaching leaders view their teams as reservoirs of talent to be developed. Individuals' strengths are nurtured and motivated.
• Servant leaders consider their job to be empowering their teams to succeed. In a team setting, they set clear targets and discuss and provide the circumstances to meet that goals. If the team falls behind, the leader pitches in.
• Autocratic leaders establish a clear vision and end goal and how to achieve it. They have clear expectations on what, when and how tasks should be done. They expect people to act on their instructions immediately.
• Laissez-faire leaders trust employees to meet their own goals with their methods and creativity.
• Democratic leaders tend to seek employees input before making a decision and work from within the team.
• The Pacesetter coaches team members to run hard and fast. They work with the team to set examples and high expectations.
• The Visionary Leader is strongly committed to purpose and big-picture end goals. They set objectives with the finish line in mind and set a future vision to engage and energise employees.
• Transactional leaders are about efficiency and sustainability. Employees are rewarded for positive performance and punished for negative. It presumes the worker is motivated only by compensation.
• Bureaucratic leaders are rule-keepers and serve a secure operating framework. They oversee the function and rarely express creativity.
• Facilitative leaders put employees first. They focus on creating harmonious and peaceful collaboration. They are effective morale raisers and conflict resolution specialists.

BEST MOMENTS        

‘To motivate teams and harness talent, leaders must effectively communicate with, delegate to, and mentor employees while inspiring them to pursue the company’s business purpose and mission.’

‘Coaching leadership is most effective when leaders have the time to devote to individual employees.’

‘The pros to a servant leader is they create independent teams and positive company culture.’

‘The phrase you’re most likely to hear from a bureaucratic leader is ‘that’s not the way we do things around here, it's always been this way and that’s how we get on with it.’’

‘Exclusively positive feedback can stifle an employee's learning and growth.’

‘Leadership style is usually rooted in personal preferences which can be difficult to change. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying.’

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ABOUT THE HOST

Ian Rogers is an entrepreneur running businesses in the Real Estate, Construction and Facilities Management arena. Ian has over 40 years’ industry experience, as he was effectively born into construction with his father having his own building company and Ian spending time working on sites from the age of 11!. As a result Ian has seen the industry from a trades person perspective, as a chartered quantity surveyor working on large commercial projects, as a project manager and then working on structured project finance through PFI/PPP deals. This has given