Archive for July, 2010

Leadership Styles

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

One of the most consistent things to come out of research on why employees leave a business is that they don’t leave organisations they leave leaders.

Developing a leadership style that can get the best out of your people is vital for any leader along with the flexibility to vary your leadership style as the external situation demands.

According to Daniel Goleman in his book “Primal Leadership” there are six leadership styles.

Visionary
Coaching
Affiliative
Democratic
Pacesetting
Commanding

What’s your leadership style? Read more