There are five types of powers that managers can use to influence their subordinates: coercive power, reward power, legitimate power, expert power and referent power. Different types of powers can be used in different situations. Some leaders prefer to use certain type of power more often than others. At my restaurant, I will lead my team by exerting mainly referent, reward and legitimate powers. I will also use expert and coercive powers in some seldom situations. I believe in leading by example therefore I would prefer to use referent power whenever it possible. For instance, if I ask my servers to use trays to bring their drinks to the customers I will make sure that I do the same thing. Nothing can be worse than say one thing and do another. I will show employees my respect and concern for their personal needs and will ask them to do things that I will be willing to do myself. Being a role model means doing the right thing and following your own rules. If people would respect and trust you, they would work harder and would need less supervision. Reward power can be used to motivate and encourage employees. For example, to boost wine sale I will offer reward to the waiter who will sell more bottles of wine than anyone else. I will also verbally praise my staff for doing the right thing on the daily bases and will give annual raise base on employees’ performance appraisal. I will use legitimate type of power when hiring employees, making their schedule and performing their annual evaluation. There are circumstances when using coercive power is absolutely necessary. For instance, if employee verbally harassing someone I would let him know that he would be terminated if he would continue behaving that way.