Unit 19
Task 3
Understand leadership atriibtes and skills
Definition
Leadership Leadership have specifc skills that need to be in every leader. The leaders will do the most important part of the
task and they can make change happen. It is a straightorward thing that leader gives directon to team
individuals and make sure that they are following a partcular path to meet team’s objectves. It is important to
diferentate between management and leadership. nanagement is when the task are completed well and with
using the available resources efciently, however, leadership is taking responsibility further more as it involve
making sure that things and task are done well in a new and a diferent ways ,and make sure that other team
members following your directon.
Leadership style A leadership style is the manner by which a man tries to lead others over period tme. Their style is their picked
approach and will decide the way others see them and respond to them. There are four kinds of leadership style:
Autocratc leaders- this type of leadership is happen when a team leader gives instructons and want
others to follow these instructons. This can work in place where the staf wanted to have clear
instructons, as the leaders must have a good knowledge of what they do. The weakness in this type of
leadership is most of the team member do not like other people to order them to do something. This is
because there are many individuals who had good ideas that wanted to share with their leader if they had
the right chance.
Democratc leaders- this is the opposite of the autocratc style; this is where the leader is listening to
other individuals and taking their advice more seriously. nost of the team member plays roles where they
feels they are taking important roles in the team decision making.
Perspectve leaders- This where leaders take responsibility to encourage other that they are working with
to make sure they are taking part in decision-making. These type of leader they gives responsibilites to
individuals for a specifc tasks and try to encourage them to share their suggestons for making change
and take part in decision making.
Laissez faire leaders-This is where the leader leave all the responsibilites of making decisions to other