Giving the team a voice, allowing them to illustrate their strength, and initiating the best results a leader can achieve, all stem from Participative leadership. Seeking involvement from employees boosts their moral and motivates the employees to be more committed to the project. Participative leaders utilize all the resources available by implementing a decision based on all gathered information. Changing minds (2015) states participative leadership is empowering, democratic, and power-sharing giving each person involved the opportunity to make a difference.
Style of Leadership: Participative Leader
According to the style of leadership I scored highest in participative leadership. As a participative leader I allow employees, …show more content…
Now over the years I have come to value many opinions and suggestions, it makes for a stronger outcome. I am not surprised by the outcome of the assessment and feel it fits the way I orchestrate a team. As a leader I strive to have a team that takes risk, thinks hard, and participate, this gives them a sense of being needed, appreciated, and valued. Being a participative leader comes easy for me, I value input from others it make for a stronger task outcome; more minds better results.
Effective communication. It is important in any style of leadership to employee effective communication; however, with participative it opens a whole door for communicating with teams members in the workplace and personal life. Putting a task on the table and instructing all team members to give three suggestions on how to successfully complete the task is a way to get everyone involved in communicating; however, letting everyone voice their suggestions may lead to indecisiveness and possible …show more content…
Motivational model gives more opportunities for participation with grater reward from the work performed. Exchanged based model asserts behavior sends a message of confidence and respect from subordinates. Xu, Joyce, Aili, & Yaping (2009) believe that both of these models foster4 higher levels of trust in the leader; as a result the subordinated is more likely to reciprocate the leader’s ideas and directions of a task. As a participated leader one influence the team into a specific thought or idea, having full trust is essential in persuading the team to follow in that thought.
Conclusion
There are several different leadership styles participative leadership opens up many doors for teammate involvement. It allows, empowering and establishes trust; giving the leader the opportunity to recognize opportunity and talent, establish set roles, and strength effective communication. It is extremely pertinent that participative leaders are fully committed to this style, in hope of maintaining ultimate performance from their subordinates. Present a task, get feedback, and make a final decision are main goals to participative