Top Leadership Speakers In 2021 | Motivational Speakers

Being in the Armed Forces is about becoming a great leader. In today's world, we need more people who are willing to stand up and be a great leader. Someone who is willing to lead by example, exude self discipline, and be willing to make tough decisions. This is what our Armed Forces is designed for: to teach our young men and women these values and traits as they represent our country abroad.

We are going to talk the second style of Leadership that is commonly called Participative (democratic) Leadership Style. In this style, the leaders generally say ‘Let's work together to solve this. . .’ in which it means that the leaders involve or the leaders include one or more employees in the decision making process (to determine what to do and how to do it). Nevertheless, the leaders are still supposed to maintain the authority of final decision making. Using this style is actually not a sign of weaknesses; it is rather as a sign of strength that will influence to your employees to respect you more.The style is normally used when you don’t have complete parts of the information, and your employees have other parts. In this case, the leaders and the employees are to gather the whole information as complete. It is needed to be noted that a leader is not required to know everything -- this is why the leaders employ skillful and knowledgeable employees. Using this style is as a matter of fact rather to mutual benefit -- it allows every segment to become part of the team and allows the leaders to make better conclusion which will end up in the best decision to make.

Apparently, this style is normally used when leaders tell their employees or followers what the leaders want to be done and how they want it to be accomplished, without getting any advices or comments from their followers which sometimes could probably be helpful. These leaders usually say, “I want you all to. . . “Some of the appropriate conditions when leaders use this style are when they have already gained all related and necessary information to solve the problem, you are in short on time, and your followers or workers are well motivated.However, there are some people that tend to think of this style as a vehicle for yelling, shouting, direct instructing, for using demeaning language, and for leading by threats and abusing their power. These people consider that this is not the authoritarian style; rather it is an abusive, unprofessional style which is commonly called bossing people around. The leaders in this situation act as bosses and it has absolutely no place in a leader's repertoire.In this modern era, authoritarian style should normally only be used on rare occasions; some moments that require direct instruction to accomplish or cover a problem. Hence, if you still have plenty of time and want to gain more commitment and motivation from your followers or employees, then you are not supposed to use this style.