Leadership Flashcards
(20 cards)
Adaptive Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who is able to adjust their approach to match the needs of their environment. Such leaders challenge people, pushing them out of their comfort zones, letting people feel external pressure and conflict in order to effect change.
Affiliative Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who focuses on building strong relationships and leveraging those relationships to get things done. Affiliative leaders tend to have highly developed social skills and are very good at building networks across the organization.
Assertive Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who is active, direct, specific, and honest. Assertive leaders respect themselves, require respect from others, and respect everyone they work with at all levels.
Authentic Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who knows who they are, what they believe in, what their values are, and what their priorities are. Authentic leaders ensure that their words align with their actions in order to build trust.
Autocratic Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who retains most of the authority, gives orders to subordinates, and expects that subordinates should give complete obedience to the orders issued. In this type of leadership, the decisions are taken by the leader without consulting others. Autocratic leadership is characterized by the control of an individual over the decisions that impact a group with little to no input from group members.
Change Agent Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who is able to set a direction for change and lead change. This type of leader is aware of the psychology of people and how to engage stakeholders and staff in order to gain buy-in and overall momentum toward significant change.
Charismatic Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who is motivating, has high energy, and inspires the team through strong convictions about what’s possible and what the team can achieve. Positive thinking and a can-do mentality are characteristics of a charismatic leader.
Consensus Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who makes a decision only after consulting the group members. A decision is not made final until all the members agree to support the decision.
Democratic Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who encourages each team member to participate in decision-making by sharing their opinions. A democratic leader encourages open conversation, helps their project team members to set goals and evaluate their own performance, and motivates them to grow. Also called shared leadership or participative leadership.
Directive Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who guides the team’s work goals and establishes the path by which they can achieve those goals. Directive leadership sets clearly defined objectives and rules for team members.
Dispersed Leadership
Leadership style of an organization in which leadership is embraced by everyone in the organization. Successful leadership in an organization cannot reside solely in the top of the organization. Today’s world is a complex, fluid, dynamic environment. Organizations need leaders at every level of the organization from the bottom to the top.
Interactional Leadership
Leadership style that is a hybrid of transactional, transformational, and charismatic leadership. The interactional leader wants the team to act, is excited and inspired about the project work, yet still holds the team accountable for their results.
Laissez-Faire Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who takes a hands-off approach to the project. This means the project team makes decisions, takes initiative in the actions, and creates goals. While this approach can provide autonomy, it can make the leader appear absent when it comes to project decisions.
Servant Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who puts others first and focuses on the needs of the people they serve. Servant leaders provide opportunity for growth, education, autonomy within the project, and the well-being of others. The primary focus of servant leadership is service to others.
Situational Leadership
Leadership style that is based on the idea that there is no single leadership style that is effective in all situations and that the best leaders are able to adapt their style to suit the specific needs and development level of the people they are leading.
Soul-Based Leadership
Leadership style based on the old concept that every living being on board a ship, or a plane is considered a soul rather than an inanimate object. Every soul is important and treated with value. As a leadership style, this requires the incorporation of concepts like inclusiveness, equality, and autonomy. Everyone that works for you is a unique individual with something of value to offer. In the current state of the smart machine age, this also differentiates people from machines.
Supportive Leadership
Leadership style of a project manager who does not simply delegate tasks and receive results but instead supports a team member until the task’s completion. A major upside to supportive leadership is that the manager will work with the employee until they are empowered and skilled enough to handle tasks with minimal supervision in the future.
Transactional Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who emphasizes the goals of the project and offers rewards and disincentives to the project team. This is sometimes called management by exception because it’s the exception that is rewarded or punished.
Transformational Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who inspires and motivates the project team to achieve the project goals. Transformational leaders aim to empower the project team to act, be innovative in the project work, and accomplish through ambition.
Visionary Leadership
Leadership style of a leader who has a clear idea of what they want to do and how they plan to accomplish it, along with the strength to pursue it.
