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About this lesson

Learn the importance of exceptional leadership and the different leadership styles. The first leadership style explored is the authoritative style.

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Authoritative

When leaders are aware of the different leadership styles, they can choose the style that suits them best or integrate the styles together to reach a desired outcome. Different leadership styles can create the same results, but will have a different effect on team members.

Someone with an “Authoritative” leadership style leads based on fear. These leaders are effective and organized, but they stunt innovation and creativity.

When to use

This works very well in organizations like the military or government entities where there is not a lot of room for grey areas. You need clear rules and regulations and the leader needs a lot of control.

Instructions

The authoritative leader dictates based on authority and uses fear as a means to control those being led. Their leadership style is based on consequences, so the person being led is afraid of what might happen if they don’t follow the structure. They are afraid they will lose their job or get demoted.

Examples: Military, other government entities and some Fortune 500 companies.

Positive

  • Very organized. There is not a lot of grey area. Everything is very black and white.
  • Very distinct hierarchical structure from the top down.
  • The leader has a lot of control.
  • Very effective.

Negative

  • Lack of creativity because those being led are afraid to fail.
  • Those being led feel demoralized.
  • Lack of individuality. - Innovation becomes difficult.
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  • 00:04 The first step to exceptional
  • 00:07 leadership is you have to understand the three leadership styles, because
  • 00:11 there's more than one way to lead a team, to lead a group, or to lead an individual.
  • 00:18 In this video, you'll learn the importance of exceptional leadership and
  • 00:21 the different leadership styles.
  • 00:23 Cuz different styles can create the same results, but
  • 00:27 will have a drastically different effect on those being led.
  • 00:31 And when leaders are aware of the different styles,
  • 00:34 they can choose the style that suits them best,
  • 00:37 or integrate the styles together to reach a desired outcome.
  • 00:40 The first leadership style we'll explore is the authoritative style.
  • 00:44 The authoritative style is dictating based on authority, and
  • 00:48 using fear as a means to control those being led.
  • 00:51 What are some examples of that?
  • 00:54 So that would be like the military, or some other government entities.
  • 00:59 Maybe the police department.
  • 01:00 Right? Some Fortune 500 companies.
  • 01:03 And some examples of some of those leaders are somebody like George Washington or
  • 01:07 General Patton in the military.
  • 01:09 Or even the other side, like the dictators.
  • 01:12 Somebody like Fidel Castro in Cuba, or Stalin.
  • 01:17 Okay?
  • 01:17 So this is leadership that's based on fear, so
  • 01:20 what types of things might happen?
  • 01:21 There's based on consequences.
  • 01:24 So, losing your job, or getting demoted, or
  • 01:28 if you're in the dictator side, imprisonment, or even death.
  • 01:33 So there's a very distinct hierarchical structure from the top down.
  • 01:37 So you got your subordinates here and
  • 01:39 you got your higher ups, and everything kinda trickles down this way, okay?
  • 01:43 Now, there are some positives to the authoritative style.
  • 01:48 Right? Because it's very organized.
  • 01:50 So when you have something that's very organized,
  • 01:51 there's not a whole lot of grey area, right?
  • 01:54 It's a lot of black and white.
  • 01:55 It's this way, it's that way, here's the rules,
  • 01:57 here's the regulations, here's the hierarchy of how everything works.
  • 02:02 And it's very effective.
  • 02:05 Right, it's very effective.
  • 02:05 And it serves us depending on what type of business you're in, right?
  • 02:10 Or if we're talking about the military or we're talking about the government,
  • 02:13 it really serves us to have that cuz we don't want a lot of grey area there, okay?
  • 02:17 Now what are some of the negatives?
  • 02:19 Well, when you have this kind of structure,
  • 02:22 definitely lack of creativity is something that you're going to encounter.
  • 02:26 Right? Because
  • 02:27 those being led are afraid to fail.
  • 02:30 So sometimes they even feel demoralized, right?
  • 02:33 They have a lack of individuality.
  • 02:36 Innovation becomes difficult, and we know how important innovation is for
  • 02:40 companies to move forward, okay?
  • 02:42 So you'd have to find some workarounds.
  • 02:44 Not too long ago, I had the privilege of visiting Cuba.
  • 02:48 And I didn't know what to expect, right?
  • 02:50 And once I got there, it was absolutely amazing.
  • 02:53 I mean just white sand beaches, crystal clear water,
  • 02:57 you've got the palm trees and it's right in the middle of the Caribbean, right?
  • 03:01 Absolutely beautiful place.
  • 03:03 And the people were just as beautiful, just friendly and outgoing and welcoming.
  • 03:08 It was a great experience.
  • 03:10 And I did have the chance to tour one of the places
  • 03:15 where they make the famous cigars, right, the Cuban cigars.
  • 03:19 So I got to go in there.
  • 03:20 I got a tour from one of the directors,
  • 03:23 one of my clients really connected me with him.
  • 03:25 And we had a great time.
  • 03:27 And so we're walking through, and
  • 03:29 I notice some very different things than compared to here in the US.
  • 03:34 So one of the things was everybody was sitting at their spot,
  • 03:38 almost like a factory, right?
  • 03:39 Somebody rolls a certain part of the leaf,
  • 03:41 and then another person rolls a certain part of the leaf.
  • 03:43 But over the loudspeakers in every room I went into,
  • 03:46 somebody was reading something in Spanish.
  • 03:49 Now I didn't speak Spanish at the time, but
  • 03:51 it was just kind of going on and on and on non-stop.
  • 03:53 Non-stop.
  • 03:54 Somebody was reading to the workers.
  • 03:56 Okay?
  • 03:57 So as we got through the tour, we came to this one room, and there was a picture
  • 04:01 of Che Guevara, a freedom fighter for Cuba, and Fidel Castro, the dictator.
  • 04:06 And they're both on the wall.
  • 04:08 And so as we walk into this room,
  • 04:10 I'm listening to what's going on and the director tells me, he says, well,
  • 04:14 David, listen you can hear the propaganda that's going on.
  • 04:18 And what I realized was there somebody who was sitting on a stage, he was sitting on
  • 04:22 a chair, and he was reading the book, and it was a book on Fidel Castro and
  • 04:28 how great he is, and how great communism is, and all these different things.
  • 04:32 So this is their way of the dictatorship even in an industrial environment,
  • 04:38 where they're constantly being controlled, right?
  • 04:41 And ideas put into their head for 12, 13, 14, 15 hours a day non-stop, okay?
  • 04:49 Very, very different.
  • 04:50 So when you look at the different leadership styles, from a dictatorship
  • 04:54 to authoritative, and when you're in this realm, there's a lot of control.
  • 04:59 There is a lot of control, okay?
  • 05:01 So, let's quickly recap.
  • 05:03 So, the authoritative, you have a hierarchy structure, okay?
  • 05:07 And the positives are it's very organized, it's very effective,
  • 05:10 it's very black and white.
  • 05:12 The negatives are there is lack of creativity, those being led
  • 05:16 feel demoralized or they're living in fear, right, at this job.
  • 05:20 Lack of individuality, and innovation becomes difficult, okay?
  • 05:25 And if you're looking for some examples, look to the military, or
  • 05:28 other government entities.
  • 05:30 All right, you guys got this, I'll see you in the next video, and
  • 05:33 we'll move on to the second leadership style.

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