The Importance Of Being A Participative Leader

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What is a leader? When thinking of this question I feel like you have to really know what it means to be a leader. Becoming the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. –Brian Tracy. No one is born a leader, leaderships skills come from life experiences, education and employment. Everyone grows into a leader and then afterwards grow into a leadership style that will eventually begin to shape and inspire other leaders. Having a title or high above power does not make you a leader. Inspiring and providing great communication, confidence, advice, laughs, knowledge, honesty and reality. Those great skills help you become a great leader. Even with these great leadership skills, there are …show more content…

Participative leaders or better known as democratic leaders include team members and others, but making the final decision is up to the participative leader. Participative leaders build confidence and knowledge within team members because their inputs matter within decision making. It helps team members think their opinions help with decisions. If there is change that needs to be implemented a participative leader helps team members understand the change in positive way. I would definitely consider myself a participative leader because I love gathering as many opinions from people just in case I don’t see the situation from another point. It helps me put everything in a good perspective.
“When you help others to win, you win to0”-John C. Maxwell
Are you a transactional leader? Transactional leaders are more of give and take leader. Transactional leaders teach team members a task and then review their performance of the task, then either coach or reward the team member based upon results. There is kind of no wiggle room being a transactional leader due to the fact either the team member has accomplished the task or failed. It can become a boring style because you are constantly giving the team member a task to complete and them depending on the result you can take away the opportunity of developing more.
“A Boss says go, a leader says let’s go”- E.M

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