Best Styles of Leadership
The transformational leadership style would best suit me if I were to play a leading role in a public profession or community health position. Transformative leadership entails fostering change in an organization by influencing the concerned persons to strive for higher ideals (Van Wart, 2017). My choice of this style of leadership is based on the fact that managing public institutions comes with a unique set of challenges that I believe would be best addressed through a dynamic and firm approach. For example, public institutions operate in the interest of the communities they serve, and are thus to keep adapting to changes in that community. Besides, people expect constant improvement in such organizations and thus only a transformative leader can keep pace with such demands. Thus, I believe that I would be more effective as a leader in the public sector by adopting this mode of leadership.
The second reason why I would adopt this approach is because it is the one that best matches my personality. To be a transformative leader, one needs to have the ability to create vision and be proactive in implementing it (Van Wart, 2017). He or she also must have an innate desire to make milestones and change the status quo. These requirements correspond perfectly to my personality since I always get agitated when an institution is not making any progress. I am also quite creative and find it easy to get my viewpoint sailing through. As such, I would be better of embodying this style of leadership than I would e with any other style.
Leah’s choice of transactional leadership style appears to be uninformed. I say so because this particular style works best for commercial establishments whose goal is to make profits rather than rendering services. Giving public officers incentives to motivate them is not effective as there is already a don’t-care attitude among public servants (Jensen, 2020). As such, only an approach that can appeal to them psychologically, e.g. transformative leadership would work.
References
Jensen, U. T. (2020). The Science and Art of Public Leadership: Understanding Concepts and Grappling with Tough Questions. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
Van Wart, M. (2017). Leadership in public organizations: An introduction. Taylor & Francis.