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11-Situational Leadership &

Motivation (Continued)

Characteristics of Effective Leaders

Strong Convictions about Vision: Leader should be strongly
committed towards his vision and willing to take on high
personal risk, incur high costs, and engage in self-sacrifice to
achieve their vision.

Extraordinary Personality: Effective leaders should have
a behavior that is unique, novel, unconventional, and
counter to norms. Such behaviors evoke surprise and
admiration in followers.

Influence and Lead Change: Effective leaders
should be perceived as being a change agent and
should evoke radical change rather than just act as
caretakers of the status quo.

A leader needs to constantly remind oneself of the motivational needs of the
employees. One of the simplest factors of success cited in the organizations is
a motivated workforce. The four leadership styles of Telling, Selling,
Participating and Delegating proposed in the situational leadership model can
be used as per the motivational need of the subordinate. For example, for a
senior manager who has been recently recruited and who boasts an illustrious
career graph would need more responsibilities and opportunities to prove
himself, that is, ‘Delegating’ to remain motivated
By: Dr. Hussein Saad Certified Level 5
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