Personal Profile: Leadership Style: Democratic Leadership

Personal profile

Leadership style

Leadership has been defined as mobilizing the workforce towards training organizational goals (Yukl, 1998). The style of the leader is considered to be important in achieving organizational goals and therefore it is important to know your own leadership style as the leadership style will impact on the performance among subordinates (Berson et al., 2001). However this does not mean the leadership style alone will be responsible for all the performance of workers and attainment of goals.

Democratic leadership

Based on my characteristics, values and beliefs, my leadership style would be close to the democratic leadership. According to Akapala (1990), this form of leadership is said to be the earliest among

As a volunteer manger, I need to organize volunteers by coming into contact, monitor, evaluate and assign them. Most and foremost, I am required to produce volunteer policies and procedures, including risk assessments. It is important to do so, in order to work systematically for both the leader and the subordinates. I will have to generate suitable role description according to the needs of the organization and provide appropriate support and training of volunteers. I need to be in contact and going through interviews to ensure that they are the ideal person for the position. As soon I have picked the volunteers, I need to provide them with guide and information, always have them in contact, in order to be up to date with regulation and policies related to volunteering and notify them with any modification in order to facilitate

This may be a high risk in the approach of volunteer management and therefore it is important on how the leader overcomes it. The leader needs to find out why they couldn’t turn up-they may have a good reason for it. Carry on with work as schedules and explain the situation to the team and contribute even tasks to each of the members. The leader must carry on with confidence and intelligence providing the subordinates with an efficient leadership. Being indecisive and fail to command will cause the team to fall apart and lead to indiscipline. An excellent communication is therefore essential, as lack in communication will limit the team effectiveness. If one the team member is not certain of what the goals and responsibilities are, there can be a confusion of what is to be done. This will lead to inefficiencies such as duplicated work or having tasks incomplete. Leader must be aware and always ensure that the team members are on the right track and support their understanding of their responsibilities. Risk management is always important during the teamwork. This is a prominent issue as there is lot of demanding, complex work in the voluntary sector as volunteers are directly involved to the work. Volunteers need to consider the risk and be handled in the same way that paid staff positions do.