Title: (Optional) Compare the effectiveness of several leadership styles.
Course: Leadership Development Infusion Unit > Section: Developing Leadership Skills

Comparison includes

- styles such as
  - authoritarian or autocratic—leader dictates all policies and procedures and decides all goals and activities without input from others
  - democratic or participatory—leader collaborates with others (leaders and team members) and team members take on more responsibility
  - delegative (laissez faire)—leader is more hands-off and allows team members to make more decisions
  - transformational—leader causes valuable and positive change in individuals and social systems; leader fosters development of followers into leaders
  - strategic—leader expresses a strategic vision and motivates and persuades others to adopt that vision
  - transactional—leader focuses on supervision, organization, and performance; leader promotes compliance by followers through both rewards and punishments
  - situational—leader must adjust leadership style to fit the development level of the followers he or she is trying to influence
- features of each style
- examples of leaders who represent each style
- application of each style in the real world.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How does a person's leadership style reflect his or her personality? Work ethic? Creativity?
- What are some advantages and disadvantages of each style of leadership?
- How would a situation dictate the style a leader uses?
- Who exemplifies each style of leadership?
- How is each style of leadership applied in the real world?

Teacher Resources:

- Followership: What it is and Why it’s Essential for Leaders to Understand, Bethel University
- Lessons in Followership: Good Leaders Aren’t Always Out Front, Association of the United States Army
- What Every Leader Needs to Know About Followers, Harvard Business Review