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Find out how emotional leadership styles can affect your team's happiness.
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Imagine that you work with a positive, charismatic leader. She's excited about the future of the organization, and she shares this excitement with her team.
She makes sure that people understand how their efforts contribute to this future, and this inclusion sparks loyalty and intense effort in the team. Generally, morale and job satisfaction are high, because team members feel that they're making a difference.
However, some people in her team don't respond well to this style of leadership. And when there's a crisis, she struggles to get some of them to focus on short-term objectives.
She could be more effective by varying her approach to leadership, depending on the situation; and she could do this by using "six emotional leadership styles", each of which is useful in different circumstances.
In this article, we'll look at these six emotional leadership styles. We'll explore each style, and we'll look at the situations where each is most useful. We'll also explore how you can develop the skills needed to use each style effectively.
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