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Introduction
The debate over whether leaders are born or made is never ending. Many people believe that leaders
are born with characters that qualifies them to lead. On the other hand, many people believe that leaders are
made by the environment and the vision that drives them to work hard and emerge as a leader in their society.
The world has known many great leaders who have changed and influenced the world in one way or another.
Having a clear vision and being a visionary leader can be one of the way for a person to emerge as a leader. A
leader is defined as a person who is in charge of a company or an organization or even a country (Davies et
al., 2005). The difference between one leader and the other might be the style of leadership that they use. This
paper will focus on three styles of leaderships, and it will discuss their definition, the characteristics of each
style and the difference between them.
what guides the members of this leadership style. Finally, they always try to stimulate intellectual and offer it to
their followers to get the best possible results (Bush, 2003).
In the school setting, the role of the administrators is to focus their attention on facilitative power to help the
teachers in the school to reach their possible potential. The teachers and the administrators lead by example in
the school to achieve the highest result possible. In an educational setting this type of leadership helps the
teachers growth and development and it is very effective in problem solving (Bush, 2003).
Comparing characteristics
All of the leadership styles tend to be normative ( what is accepted as normal) and can be applied in
any school setting (Bush, 2003). The leadership theories tend to be selective which means that every theory
focuses on an element at the expense of other elements for example; the Bureaucratic focuses on rules at the
expense of personal relations. Another point that all of the leadership styles have in common is that they all are
based on observations, and then they are developed into concepts.
All of the leadership styles have their strength, but they also have their weaknesses. The bureaucratic
leadership style follows the rules strictly which could ensure that there is an equality in opportunities. The rules
and regulations in the leadership style ensure that everyone is efficient and capable of the task at hand. The
Bureaucratic style is less effective in teams and unlike the collegial and the transformational style cannot be
flexible and therefore it leaves no room for creativity or innovation The bureaucratic style makes it hard for
schools to change their rules and adapt to the needs of society (Bush, 2003).
On the other hand, the collegial style is based on sharing and democracy that leads to less conflict in
the working space which increase the productivity of the employees. The main focus of the collegial model is
the decision-making process that only works when the group consists of experts. Furthermore, the
transformational leadership is based on the vision and the motivation of the leader that challenge the members
and make them work harder which improve the productivity in the workplace. The leaders inspire their team
members and always expect them to be the best at what they do. Nevertheless, the followers may find it hard
to follow the leaders vision if they didnt believe in it. Administrators can struggle and find challenges in all of
the three leadership style (Davies et al., C,2005).
Reflection
In conclusion, each one of the leadership style has it strength and it weaknesses and in my opinion it is
very important to understand each style in order to determine which style works best in different work settings.
As a future teacher and possibly an administrator, I think that it is not possible to have a perfect leadership
style because there is a flaw in all of them. However, understanding them all in detail make me think of what
kind of a leader I want to be in the future. As a teacher, I want to offer my students a support system so that
they can reach and achieve what they are capable of. I also want to offer them structures and rules to follow
because everyone needs structure. I want to be the kind of teacher who listen to my colleagues and learn from
their experiences and share my experience with them. In the end, I want to combine all of the leadership styles
and create a leadership style based on the strength of the three leadership styles that are mentioned in this
paper.
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