Examining Effective Leadership Styles

Examining effectual Leadership StylesThroughout history of health care policy makers they were challenged to farm powerful leading skillsfor future nurses leaders. Therefore there was a need to damp divers(prenominal) contemporary leaders looks andbehaviors, other than those theories known before. Contemporary lead styles is non just a group of skillsor missions, it is rather an attitude that rate on the collaboration and trenchant teamwork. Contemporaryleadership is dynamic blood that lead lead the leaders and pursual to a higher level of moral andteamwork set aboutment. (Lanier Rose, 2008).Effective leaders as reflected in this literature of leadership, is one who is having the great power to spend a penny ahealthy environment that willing affect the motivation, efficiency, and effectiveness of their employees. Inaddition a good leader needs to have different leadership styles and attitude, and need to know in whichsituation he/she tin can evidence a particular a pproach. Furthermore in order for good leaders to drive theirorganization forward they need to practice authority, and help their employees to motivate, plan, lead,control, organize and achieve their goals and activities. (Jenkins, 2009).This paper covers briefly s sluice contemporary leadership styles quantum leadership, charismatic leadership,transactional leadership, transformational leadership, overlap leadership, and servant leadership.Also in this assay I will discusses and examine effective leader from throughout the literature and howleaders can develop effective leadership styles that will impact successfully on the organization. Mainly byexploring and comparing between dickens famous forms of contemporary leadership approaches, thetransactional and transformational leadership styles. unconvincing I will focus on my writing on one of the nursingleaders that inspired me, what were her leadership styles, and what makes her a good leader in my view, andwhat I think she was lacking as a leader.Contemporary leadership stylesQuantum leadership is based on important strategies, such as building capacity, thinking, planning, and work in collectively. In one of the research study program conducted by Jennifer Milewski, shedeveloped seven drives of effective quantum leadership which are building strong companionship relationship,open the way for the community initiative, find source of power in society, deal with difficult and complicatedtasks, build relationships with other systems, motivate employee for continuous learning, and demand the futureto the present. (Milewski, 2006). What makes quantum good is that the leadership is shared activity andskills between the leader and employee in the health care system because all the staff and patient can haveaccess to the information not only the leader. (Sullivan Decker, 2009).Leaders how are having charismatic personality characterizes by being dynamic, with attractive andmagnetic personality, and they inspi re their participators through their speech. What makes this style strong andpowerful is that people marry the leader speech regardless of the content of their message without the needfor providing evidence and they usually value religion and politics more than facts, on the other mintcharismatic is limited because followers today are more acquaintanceable and aware and they will not listen toany leader easily without providing evidence based practice. (Mc Crimmon, 2007). Martin Luther King isgood example for this style.Transactional leadership is about exchanging socially whereby the leader and follower are persuadeed to giveand receive social, political, physiological, and economical benefit. In this style leaders are expected tomotivate, enhance and meet their employee goals, objectives, and loyalty within the circumstance of their practiceand policy, moreover transactional leader work on day to day operation, it is like when you are asked to workovertime hours and on the o ther hand you expect to receive bonus. (Sullivan Decker, 2009).Transformational leadership as defined by Burns is based on motivating, inspiring and empowering bothleader and follower, and to work location by side to achieve and maintain the vision and preferred future.Transformational leader see themselves as a changing agent, lifelong learner, believes in people and able tohandle and vie complex task. Transactional leadership has been the basis for the nursing administrationcurriculum. (Malloch Porter, 2006).Relational leadership or connective leadership as introduced by Klakovich is based on flexilemanagement that will motivate health care team, clients, and families. She also explained that this approachfocuses in creating and strengthens interconnection between and among multidisciplinary team. (Klakovich,1994).The manager usually shows relational leadership broker when convening the multidisciplinary team to planor change the patient care program, and this will break the hierarchical relationship and lead all member todevelop leadership at all level in the organization. (Sullivan Decker, 2009).Shared leadership is based on the principle of relationships, partnerships, discussion, and understandingthe limit. This approach shares the managing and leading responsibilities between two or more leaders sincethey dont expect that one leader has the ability and knowledge to handle and manage all tasks effectively.(Sullivan Decker, 2009).Servant leadership approach is suggested to support nursing staff in patient care where extra expectationand support are required from the managers, it is also ensure attri thate nursing care where there is increase thedemand on nursing work force. In health care environment its believed that the work will be enhanced andbe more effective with more servant- oriented management approach. (Jenkins Stewart, 2010).By the end, each leadership model is attempting to persuade the followers to follow their managementstrategies for the greater success of the organization.Effective leader and leadershipLeadership is defined in many way but all of them agree that it is a process that influence individual, team,or the community to achieve their goal. It can be formal or informal depending on the leader authorities andpersonal skills. (Sullivan Decker, 2009).Effective leader essential be able to influence, empower, and motivate the follower to participate for theeffectiveness of the organization. (Chen, Beck, Amos, 2005).Mcshane and Vonglinow in 2005 listed some important characteristic and skills for effective leadership, thoseinclude but not limited to intelligent, confidence, motivation, knowledgeable about the business, integrity,command and emotional intelligent, and these skills will enable the leaders to be effective and strong withany leadership style they are following.One reason that might affect the development of effective leader is when a cutting leader is surprised thatpeople who promoted the m are not following, especially in health care system where leadership position isgiven without strong educational background and experience. Therefore the leader must develop better waysfor managing, leading, and convincing their follower. They should be able to negotiate, and satisfy theiremployees in order to drive the organization forward. (Karlene, 2008).In nursing career leaders who play beyond the classic leadership style are needed, that will provide adirect contact between nurses and their manager in order to create positive work environment specially whereretaining nurses are becoming a great challenges. (Amany, Susan, Mary, 2009).Through my reading I realized that effective leader must practice authority, empower and motivateemployees to face their fears, and enable them to share in decision making process and by being intelligent inselecting the closely effective leadership style that works with different changes in the organization, can have amajor impact on the succ essful of the organization.Moreover maintaining and modify the organization after achieving the success and desired vision is criticalfor the progression to continue.Transactional and transformational leadershipsMany researchers have conducted to examine the most effective model between transactional andtransformational leadership theories. The difference between both of them where first recognized by Weber1998, who said that transactional leadership power is based on controlling the basis of knowledge and leadersusually aim to compromise and negotiate with followers in order to achieve higher efficiency, and theypromote subordinates to complete their successful. On the other hand in transformational approach leadershave charismatic character that aim to transform employees and help them to change ways of thinking byusing new ideas, and leaders create learning opportunities for their followers and encourage them to solveproblems. (Kotlyar, Karakowsky, 2006).Other studies have rela ted transformational and charismatic approaches both are similar by attracting andenhancing followers. In contrast charismatic inspires followers superficially however charismatic is certainlya shot of transformational leader. (Bass Bass,2008).what I cant forget and still wander in my mind when she said to me always follow your intuition and answer the hidden voice inside you, whenever you feel that something wrong is going on with your patient even if you are sure that she is clinically stable, and that is just feeling, dont ignore it and check her continuously till that feeling leave you. Later I realized that sometimes such feeling is harbinger.