Leadership Styles &

Growth Dimension
Bethania Joanna Setiawan
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Leadership is not all
about personality traits
& capability
Yes personality traits & capability matters, but if we dive deeper..

Why? True good leaders know

How? exactly why they lead and

how they lead to success
Part 1 Part 2

Why leaders How leaders

lead? lead to
What is the importance of
success?
Traditional and modern
leadership
leadership style

Part 3 Part 4

Choose your Leadership

leadership Foundation
style Qualities & skills that all
Choose your authentic and leaders should acquire Presentation
effective leadership style and how to develop them
Overview
Part 1 - Why Leaders Lead?

Why leaders
lead?
Part 1 - Why Leaders Lead?

#1
Goals
A goal is an idea of the future or
desired result that a person or a
group of people envision, plan and
commit to achieve
Part 1 - Why Leaders Lead?

Without goals,
there is no leadership
Part 1 - Why Leaders Lead?

#2
A person or
group of people
who will achieve
the goals
Part 1 - Why Leaders Lead?

A person who understand

deeply the goals and have
higher drive to reach the goals
usually takes the leadership
position
Part 2 - How Leaders Lead to Success

How leaders
lead to success?
Part 2 - How Leaders Lead to Success

A successful
leader
is someone who practice and
execute the right leadership style
to lead a group of people
resulting in achieving mutual
goals
Part 2 - How Leaders Lead to Success

Leadership
style based on
Kurt Lewin
theory
(Traditional Leadership)
Part 2 - How Leaders Lead to Success

Leader-team members dynamics:

● Most decision made by the leader
Autocratic ● Leader is the most responsible for the project
● Leaders provide clear structure and set clear
Leadership expectations
● Rarely have deep discussion with team members

Advantages:
● Enable quick decision
● Fast paced, not going in circles
● Short term stress reduction for leaders

Disadvantages
● Long term stress for leaders for carrying big burden of
responsibilities
● When leader is absent, the group might be in chaos
● Reduced in motivation and ownership
● Hardly develop team bond
● Team members don’t develop their decision making skill
and confidence
● Maybe missed new opportunities

When we should apply this leadership style

● Short-term, complex, technical or urgent projects
● Project with no new ideas needed
● Project with tight timeline
Part 2 - How Leaders Lead to Success

Leader-team members Dynamics:

● Makes decision as a group under leader supervision
Democratic ● Inclusive (all members opinion are considered)

Leadership Advantages:
● High project ownership and dedication from team
members (Emotional engagement)
● Less miscommunication
● More cooperative and less drama
● Transparent and open
● Positive and collaborative environment
● Equal responsibilities and equal voices

Disadvantages
● Slow decision making
● Overdependence on the team sometimes doubts
individual opinion
● Collaboration & interaction burden

When we should apply this leadership style

● All of some team members are experts or experienced
● Slow-paced project with flexible timeline
● In demand for fresh and new ideas
● Prioritize team building or team development
Part 2 - How Leaders Lead to Success

Leader-team members dynamics:

Laissez-Faire ●
●
Little guidance from leaders
Employees make decision individually
● Leaders take charge when necessary
Leadership ● Leaders take responsibility for all action & decisions

Advantages:
● Feeling being trusted & confident creates higher retention
● Individual accountability and autonomy motivates
employee to give their best
● Creative to try new things and outside the box by not
giving too many instructions for how a goal is reached
● More flexible time, as work done individually

Disadvantages
● Difficult for newcomers
● Confusion about who is in charge
● Lack of structure and support
● Problematic for group work

When we should apply this leadership style

● Experienced employees or experts
● Industry that requires high creativity like entertainment
Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs and Herbet Hoover industry, IT industry etc
Part 2 - How Leaders Lead to Success

Leadership
style by
Daniel
Goleman
(Modern Leadership)
(source: leadershipahoy.com)
Part 2 - How Leaders Lead to Success

Similar like
Kurt Lewin
Theory

(source: leadershipahoy.com)
Part 2 - How Leaders Lead to Success
Commanding
Leadership
Leader & Team member dynamics:
The commanding leaders tend to
exert full control over the bigger
picture, business process and
decision. Team member to comply to
the leader
When to apply:
When projects are complex, fast
paced, technical and don’t require
creativity.
Affiliative
Leadership
Leader & Team member dynamics:
Leaders give support to team
member, focusing on team bonds
but less focus on achieving tasks
When to apply:
When the projects are not goal
oriented but more like daily
operation, this leadership should be
combined with visionary leadership
Democratic
Leadership
Leader & Team member dynamics:
Leaders makes decision collectively
based on group opinions and
aspirations
When to apply:
When in demand for new creative
ideas, when the bigger goals are still
blurry and when the project has
loose timeline. Some of the team
member must be experts or
experienced
 Part 2 - How Leaders Lead to Success
Coaching
Leadership
Leader & Team member dynamics:
Leaders spend interest, and give
questions on member’s career and
personal growth, to encourage
employee to get out from comfort
zone by giving challenging tasks
When to apply:
When the project has space for
failure, when the project allows the
team member’s growth
Visionary
Leadership
Leader & Team member dynamics:
Leaders give big picture and the long
term vision, set clear goals and let
the team member find their own way
to reach the goal while sharing
knowledge openly. Leaders also
frequently remind the reward and the
big purpose of achieving project
When to apply:
When the project is due for long term
and allow experiments.
Pacesetting
Leadership
Leader & Team member dynamics:
Focus on the excellent result. The
leaders set the examples and
demand team members to meet their
expectation and standards
When to apply:
When success is must be
guaranteed in a project such as in
early stage of startup company. The
leaders must be experts and the
team members must be a fast
learner
Part 3 - Choose your Leadership Style

How to
Choose your
leadership style
Part 3 - Choose your Leadership Style

authentic effective Lead to

leadership X leadership = success &
style style make
difference
Part 3 - Choose your Leadership style

1. Find out your

personality traits
Determine your
2. Know your
authentic
values
leadership lifestyle 3. Find a role model
Part 3 - Choose your Leadership style

Determine your
authentic
leadership style
1. Find out your
personality traits
Part 3 - Choose your Leadership style
Abundance Fame Poise
Achievement Family Popularity
Adventure Financial Well-Being Power
Authenticity Friendship Punctuality
Authority Freedom Recognition
Autonomy Fun Relationships
Balance Generosity Religion
Beauty Good Health Reputation
Be of Service Happiness Respect
Boldness Harmony Responsibility
Challenge Honesty Resourcefulness
Change Humor Safety
Citizenship Independence Security
Commitment Influence Self-Respect
Communication Inner Harmony Service

Determine your Community

Compassion
Integrity
Justice
Spirituality
Simplicity
Competition Kindness Sobriety
authentic Competency
Cooperation
Knowledge
Leadership
Stability
Status
Courage Learning Success
leadership style Creativity
Curiosity
Love
Loyalty
Tolerance
Tradition
Decisiveness Meaningful Work Trustworthiness
Determination Openness Truth
2. Know your values Discipline Optimism Wealth
Effectiveness Peace/Tranquility Wisdom
Excellence Perfection Other: ____________
Fairness Personal Growth
Faith Pleasure

(Source: Self Awareness Workshop by Vicario from Follow your Flow )

Part 3 - Choose your Leadership style

Determine your
authentic
leadership style
3. Find your role model
Part 3 - Choose your Leadership style

Sharing time!
Let us hear your story
Part 3 - Choose your Leadership Style

authentic effective Lead to

leadership X leadership = success &
style style make
difference
 Part 3 - Choose your Leadership Style

Your Team
authentic members
leadership leadership
style culture
Effective
preference
leadership
style

Determine your
Goal & Working
effective circumstances

leadership style
Part 3 - Choose your Leadership Style

To know your team members

leadership culture preference, analyze
or ask this questions to this member?

1. Do they prefer directive or autonomy

2. Do they prefer to follow certain steps or flexible
to reach the goal
3. Do they need supportive behaviour?
4. Do they prefer work individually or in a group
5. Their experience and expertise
6. What motivates them in reaching the goal?
Rewards?
Part 3 - Choose your Leadership Style

Project goal & working circumstances

1. Is the project goal technical or does it

require creativity?
2. Do we have tight or loose timeline?
3. Should we made the decision quick or
not?
4. Is the project for short term or long
term?
5. How is the leadership culture of the
organization? Is it focusing on people or
task
Part 3 - Choose your Leadership Style

Your effective leadership style doesn’t

have to be one exact style, but it may
work in combination of 2 or more
styles
Part 4 - Leadership Foundation

Build your
Leadership
Foundation
Part 4 - Leadership Foundation

Whatever your leadership style,

there are few key qualities
that all leaders should acquire
Part 4 - Leadership Foundation
Setting Goals
Breakdown your goals into
vision, mission, values and
strategy to sharpen your
main goal
Decision Making
Familiarize yourself with
viewing things in helicopter
view of options and
generating datas to make
decision objectively with
intuition or sensing in certain
time frame with. Decision
making will develop as time
goes by Practise makes
perfect!
Influencing Skills
Build sense of trust to our
team by building good
relationship, give relevant
reasons and show good
performance to convince
your ideas.
Integrity & Drive
Always have a drive to
strive for the best either it is
about the goal or the team
members. Be honest and
always do things that are
ethically right
Empathy & Humility
Willing to actively listening to
team members aspirations and
concern, respect all opinions
Give support, praise and
constructive feedback to team
members when necessary
Assembling
Good teams
Observe and learn your team
member’s strong and weak
points and put them in tasks
that will unleash their
potential or help them
improve their weak spot
 Initiate leadership position in group projects
Group project at school or group competitions or involved in
event committee and organiztion

Look for a mentor

Lead yourself.
Always ask for
Determine your goals
feedback and
after graduation and lead
guidance about your
yourself to get through
current leadership
steps to reach your goals
style
A true good leader knows why and how they lead to
success, while keep developing their leadership
foundation

There are no fixed formula for the right leadership style,

just like equation they have constants and variables.

We have to experiment until we find the leadership

style that works
Thank you