Types of leaders

• Coercers

  • Tell team members what to do and how to do
  • Rarely listen and often seek little input from the team
  • Micro-manager
  • Never provide any type of reward and tend to give more negative feedback than positive feedback
  • Have high standards
  • Inflexible work environment

  
  

• Authoritarian

  • Firm, but fair
  • Tactful in providing clear directions but leave no doubt about what is expected
  • Frequently solicit input from the team
  • Explain the WHYs but always make final decision
  • High standards as well as high clariity

• Affiliator

  • People first
  • Team member's comfort and happiness and their own personal popularity is the highest priority
  • Do not provide clear directions
  • Try to avoid conflicts
  • No accountability

• Democrat

  • Group participation and team based decision making
  • Rewards average performance and rarely give negative feedbacks
  • Do not hold team accountable for bad behaviour

• Pacesetter

  • Would rather do the job themselves
  • Loners
  • Expect team to be self-directed
  • Do not spend time mentoring
  • rarely provide positive feedback

• Coach

  • Primarily concerned with development of the project team
  • Generally set high standard and work with the team to set those standards