Understanding leadership styles to navigate the leader maze

It hardly needs saying that effective team work and motivated team members increase the likelihood of optimising business outcomes. If good business results aren’t achieved the buck stops with the team leader for it is the team leader who is responsible for ensuring that the team is motivated to achieve results and effectively deployed to do so.
This immediately raises questions about the best way to lead. For instance, to what extent should the team leader involve the team in generating the ideas and opinions that lead to an action plan and to what extent should the team leader retain control of the final decision as opposed to sharing, equalising or releasing that control altogether?
The answer to both these questions is unequivocal and depends... log in to read more. Registration is free and takes less than two minutes.