Leadership Styles
Leadership Styles There are three main types of leadership; they are spread over a spectrum, with two ends and a middle. At one end there is democratic leadership, at the other there is Authoritarian and in the middle there is Laissez-faire. These are the three main styles of leadership, but you can be anywhere in the spectrum –middle left, far right, etc. ... A democratic leader is somebody who will lead through the people; he/she will hand decisions over and represent leadership through them. ... Democratic leadership is suited to the world of politics where it currently is used; politics is about the people so democracy is used to give them a say. ... LF is often seen as an ineffective method of leadership.