Cja 444 - Leadership Styles Paper

                                                    Leadership styles Paper

                                                             CJA/444

                                                           Anna Adams

                                                          July 13, 2018

                                                         Luis Martinez

Leadership Styles

      In this paper I will discuss the characteristics of charismatic, transactional, and transformative leadership and their similarities and differences, and the potential pitfalls of each. As well as discuss the significance each style places on vision and communication.

         To successfully define, enter, and grow the new market segment, combination of team and transformational leadership approaches are highly recommended. This is a cultural shift from the leaders motivates followers by setting goals and promising a reward when those goals were reached; described by Robbins and Coulter (2012) as transactional leadership. Successful penetration of the new market requires a transformational leader with high degree of emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill (Goleman, 2004). Transformational leader assesses the resources’ personalities, cultural contexts, and organizational behaviors.

        Since the team members are highly capable, leader should focus on providing an environment that inspire team members to achieve outcomes above and beyond the norm. Such environment is possible by providing team members the freedom of decision-makings and autonomous work ownership. Leader may assign the team members as owners to different tracks (such as market research, targeted brand analysis, product penetration strategy).  

       Each member will own the track and operate as self-contained unit.      The leader will act as facilitator to ensure the tracks provide deliverables in alignment to the overall program’s schedule, cost, and timeline. According to Robbins and Coulter (2012), transformational leadership is more effective and more promotable; therefore, tend to increase satisfaction and reduce turnover among high skill work forces. It is in the leader’s best interest to cultivate emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill to assess the situation and team members correctly prior apply different powers (legitimate, coercive, reward, expert, and referent) appropriately in the role.

     When it comes to charismatic leadership style it all comes down to the persons charm and persuasiveness. In order to be successful, they are very dedicated to their cause which makes them committed. Charismatic leaders can sometimes be called transformational leaders as well due to the fact of sharing a few similarities.  One main difference of the two is their primary focus and their audience. An example of a charismatic leader was Martin Luther King Jr, He had a very engaging personality when he spoke and was extremely committed to making positive change in people’s lives.