What’s your business leadership style?

Have you wondered about your leadership style and how it affects your business? As a business owner, it is a good idea to understand your leadership style and to cultivate it continuously. So I will share a few common leadership styles along with how they function.

Below is a short list of common leadership styles:

• Servant leader: is someone whose role is to lead as a steward or keeper of business resources whether they are human, financial or otherwise. The whole focus of a servant leader is to serve others while continuing to stay focused on accomplishing the goals of the business with integrity.
• Collaborative leader: a person who leads with the thought that critical business relationships cannot be managed through the use of formal systems but requires the presence of connecting and collaborative interpersonal communication. This type of leader has the need to safeguard their business processes, while facilitating interactions with others and patiently dealing with all business decisions.
• Transformational leader: is a leadership style that challenges themselves and others to achieve higher levels of motivation and morality. A transformational leader concentrate on “transforming” or “encouraging” others to assist each other, to take care of each other through encouragement, synergy, and looking out for the business as a whole.

Personally, my leadership style is a combination of Servant and Collaborative leadership as I manage my business. What is your leadership style? Do you have other leadership styles you would like to share? Please feel free to leave a comment.

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