Leadership Vocabulary
to believe that someone is good and honest and will not harm you
a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person.
Trait
Leaders need to be smart enough to gather, synthesize, and interpret large amounts of information, and they need to be able to create visions, solve problems, and make correct decisions.
Intelligence
a leader who dictates work methods, makes unilateral decisions, and limits employee participation. The leader keeps absolute control over decision making. The leader outlines the task in specific detail to be followed exactly. The leader makes decision alone and communicates decisions to the team. The team members lack experience, motivation or skill. The team members need structure to follow day-to-day and rely on their leader heavily.
Autocratic style
Leaders who stimulate and inspire followers to achieve extraordinary change. The leader inspires, motivates and encourages team members to achieve extraordinary outcomes that are different than the past “status quo”.
Transformational leaders
the degree to which followers perceive someone as honest, competent, and trustworthy.
Credibility
Leaders exhibit a high effort level. They have a relatively high desire for achievement, they are ambitious, they have a lot of energy, they are tirelessly persistent.
Drive
Effective leaders have a high degree of knowledge about the company, industry, and technical matters. In-depth knowledge allows leaders to make well-informed decisions and to understand the implications of those decisions. For example, if you are a manager of a car mechanic shop, you yourself can fix cars and know almost everything about cars.
Job-relevant knowledge
a leader who involves employees in decision-making, delegates authority, and values the knowledge, opinions and ideas of his team. The leader allows members to participate in decision making. Decisions are sometimes based on consensus from the team. Leader permits some empowerment and autonomy in doing the job. The task is clear but can be changed depending on input from the team. Employees have some experience and skill to be able to participate.
Democratic style
an enthusiastic, self-confident, positive and energetic leader whose personality and actions influence people to behave in certain ways.
Charismatic leader:
someone who can influence others and that generally has managerial authority.
Leader
Leaders have a strong desire to influence and lead others. They demonstrate the willingness to take responsibility.
Desire to lead
Leaders are energetic, lively people. They are sociable, assertive, and rarely silent or withdrawn.
Extroversion
a leader with this style lets employees make decisions and complete their work in whatever way they see fit. The leader delegates tasks and responsibility to team members. The leader makes overall decisions but allows others to make a lot of decisions, specially if the decisions affect their tasks. The leader gives the team members a ton of freedom because the team members are experts, motivated and skilled.
Laissez-faire style
This leader leads by creating and expressing a realistic, credible, and attractive vision of the future.
Visionary leadership
a process of influencing a group to achieve goals
Leadership
Leaders build trusting relationships with followers by being truthful or non-deceitful and by showing high consistency between word and deed. (They do what they say they will do and keep their promises without ever making excuses).
Honesty and integrity
This trait is positively related to leadership effectiveness because it produces a strong sense of responsibility for others. When making decisions, leaders take others into account and consider how their decisions impact everyone.
Proneness to guilt
leaders who lead primarily by using exchanges (or transactions). The leader gives clear instructions and commands that team members must follow exactly. The leader conditions behaviour by offering rewards for good performance and punishment for poor performance. The leader monitors team members closely to ensure that expectations are met . (Sales Departments).
Transactional leaders
Leaders who know who they are, know what they believe in, and act on those values and beliefs openly and candidly. They value transparency. They are not a copy of anyone else and are truly themselves.
Authentic leadership
the process of giving a group of people more freedom or rights. This approach to management emphasizes giving authority and freedom to workers so they can make decisions. For example, an employee may be given the freedom to decide to give away free drinks to an unhappy customer without having to ask the manager.
Empowerment
An absence of self-doubt. Leaders need to show that they are self-assured, that they believe in their own skills, knowledge etc and their message.
Self-confidence
the fact of being likely to suffer from or have a particular characteristic.
proneness
The leader give autonomy and empowerment to let team members do their tasks their own way. The team members can accept ambiguity and some risk. The team members can be fully trusted to do their part. Hint: this is the "french" one.
Laissez-faire style
A leader with this style leads with their principles first. Martin Luther King is often describe as leading with this style as he led with his principles that "all men are created equal" and he fought for this belief.
Ethical leadership