The Importance Of Leadership Style And Leadership Styles

LEADERSHIP STYLES BEFORE AND DURING EVENT:

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. (Eisenhower, 2015)

As it was rightly pointed out leadership is an art of getting things done in the right time and in the right way. It was fascinating to see people develop their skills and leadership style in the past 9 weeks. I got a chance to observe, analyze, and predict the different styles of leadership portrayed by a single individual. It was quiet evident that each individual showed a change in the leadership styles as the time went by and we were getting near to the D-day. With a lot of confidence I could say that the leadership styles displayed by individuals could be categorized into

In this nature our project manager was a democratic leader. She made sure that she took in everybody’s idea into consideration and then come to an end decision. As a democratic leader she had the whole responsibility of taming all the strong personalities and make sure all the other could also voice their opinion. Our project manager always used the right tools like the Gantt chart, agendas and minutes to guide us to the right path and help us achieve the required result. But whereas the same leadership style did not work with a few people in the group as they had to be told bluntly what to be done, as they were not ready to take orders or requests. In this matter our project manager was missing some of the autocratic style in her leading the group. As in few places where the project manager could not be firm the group started losing motivation because of those other people who did not complete their tasks as per requirement. Looking at this event it also taught us that in real world we would have staff like these who do not know work and how to handle those kinds of situations. Constant criticizing would demoralize the team so rather we need to come up with an alternative

The reason behind this was because the stress level was very low and they did not have any time frames to complete tasks, even if any they were not getting done in time, as nobody wanted to take the responsibility. This is when as a project manager had to step in but even that did not happen. Although this kind of leadership encourages bonding between the team members its still a risky style of leadership as each member would do what he or she wants but not what the event wants. A lesson learnt here is even if there is nothing much to do or finish we sill need to have control of our group and make sure there is no laissez faire style but at least democratic all through the period and everybody take some or the other responsibilities and finish all the tasks in time.

CONCLUSION:

With everything taken into account, my respect and perspective towards hospitality industry has changed. Lesson learnt all through the process here is that there is more work behind the scenes than what is seen by the eyes. Along with that it was one of the best experiences working with my fellow students and achieve a high and professional standard. This event has taught me a lot of important things like:

• The importance of planning.

• Using a Gantt chart to achieve the required