Leadership is the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or set of goals. We need leaders today to challenge the status quo, create visions of the future, and inspire organizational members to want to achieve the visions. We also need managers to formulate detailed plans, create efficient organizational structures, and oversee day-to-day operations.
There are different styles of leadership and they impact group communication differently.
The participative leadership style ranks among the best leadership style that promotes group communications. Participative leaders facilitate sharing of information and ideas and the leader considers all inputs from the group members before making a decision. Another leadership style that promotes group communication includes transformational leadership style. The success of transformational leaders depends on creating a shared vision between the individual and the organization through the effective communication of the organizational vision and ways to achieve the vision.
Other leaders such as coaching leaders who hold long conversations with employees to make them realize their strengths and weaknesses, promote a centralized communication style where the team members communicate more with the leader rather than among team members.
Charismatic leadership tries to impress team members and enlist their devotion for the leader. This leadership style encourages communication that reinforces or promotes the leader’s ideas, information or feelings, but discourages communications that involve criticism or challenging the leader’s actions or decisions.
Some quiet leaders who lead from the front remain successful in their accomplishment of tasks. They prefer action over words and expect employees to understand what is required by themselves, without spending time making the employees understand what is