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Different Leadership Models

Leadership models enable us to comprehend the reasons why a leader acts the way that he or she does. One popular example of these leadership models is the Four Framework Approach. In this type of leadership model, it suggests that a leader can be placed into one of the four categories in the Four Framework Approach which include: Human Resource, Structural, Symbolic and Political. It also suggests that in some cases, one approach is suitable and there are also times when it is not. Depending upon a certain situation, a type of style can be effectual or not. One must be aware about the four approaches as relying on a single or two approaches would be insufficient. Aside from this, one must also be mindful of the limitations of supporting a single approach.

Human Resource Leadership Model Framework

In the Human Resource framework, a human resource leader is easily reached and able to be seen, believes in people and communicates it. They also authorize, share information, support, and budget decision-making down into their association and boost participation. In the Human Resource Framework, the leader is a means and servant whose leadership approach is advocating, support and empowerment in an effectual leadership circumstances. In an ineffective leadership circumstances, a person’s leadership style is deception and abdication and is an easy target.

Structural Leadership Model Framework

In the Structural Framework, a structural leader focuses on strategy, implementation, adaptation, experimentation, environment and structure. In an ineffective leadership circumstances, the person’s leadership style is details and is a petty oppressor while in an effective leadership condition, the person’s leadership style is design and analysis and is a community architect.

Symbolic Leadership Model Framework

In the Symbolic Framework, a symbolic leader uses symbols to get attention, find out and converse a vision and view associations as a stage to participate in specific functions and bestow impressions. They also endeavor to frame experience through providing reasonable understanding of experiences. In an effective leadership condition, the leadership style of an individual is inspiration. In an ineffective leadership condition, the leadership style of an individual is mirrors and smoke and is a fanatic.

Political Leadership Model Framework

In the Political Framework, a political leader reviews the distribution of interests and power and makes what they want and what they can get clearly. They also utilize persuasion first, construct relationship to other stakeholders and employs negotiation and force if it is really necessary. In an effective leadership circumstances, the leadership style of a person is alliance and construction. In an ineffective leadership situation, the leadership style of a person is manipulation.

A leadership model is simply a way of knowing and better understanding why leaders have to act the way that they do and make the decisions that we sometimes do not agree with. However, this does not necessarily mean that you only have to focus on the type of behavior discussed in the leadership models but these models is a means of understanding that each kind of situation identifies for a certain approach or behavior that a leader must take into consideration. If you want to know more about leadership models there are numerous resources online and in publication as well as some popular classroom educational resources that can help elevate your understanding and ability to utilize leadership models to benefit your classroom, team, company or organization.

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Instant Leadership Overnight

The Global Leadership Forecast 2008/09 researched 12,208 business executives and 1493 Human Resource professionals across 76 countries. Seventy-five percent of executives surveyed identified improving their leadership talent as their #1 priority for organizational success. But the vast majority of those same respondents have no idea of exactly what leadership is.

It is astounding that so many people, when asked to define leadership, can have so many varying answers. In fact, there are 350,000 books on Amazon with “Leadership” in the title. That’s 350,000 opinions on what leadership is. Confused yet?

What has become clear is that there is no universally accepted definition of leadership because leadership is not tangible. It is not something you can hold in your hand.

North America needs to stop thinking that Leadership is something that can be attained in a week-long course or by reading a book. Without addressing context, deep-seated opinions, beliefs and values, no one is ever going to become a leader.

Leadership is an attitude and a state of mind. It is not the accomplishment of a series of tasks. It is not a passing grade at some course. It is not a title. It is not something you achieve. It is a way you exist. It is how you carry yourself. It is how you choose to walk the Earth.

The waters have been muddied in recent years by equating leadership with holding a top position in an organization. Leadership is not a position. Leadership is not something you do. But in the desperation that Corporate North America has to be number one, to be the best and to be the mightiest, a vacuum has been created and is now being filled with 350,000 opinions on what leadership is. In this vacuum, Corporate America has become so desperate for real leaders to follow, it has become self-anointing. And by becoming self-anointing, businesses have now sprung up promising to turn losers into leaders – for a price.

John Maxwell’s “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” is fundamentally wrong. His book teaches some new-age North American leadership culture as though if you simply do all of the twenty-one things in his book, you too will become a leader. That’s pure bunk. Leadership can be learned but not by simply following twenty-one so-called “laws.” Maxwell has made a promise that if you follow the “laws” (and don’t question them – remember they’re irrefutable) in his book, you can become a leader. That is simply not true. You will never get people to follow you by simply checking off a list of traits. That definition of leadership is too cerebral.

The new leadership models are simply pandering to the masses in the same way “Get Rich Quick” schemes pop up when times are tough or in the same way a diet pill can slim down in two-weeks what took years to get fat. Corporate America has no patience and doesn’t want to do the hard work involved in becoming a true, authentic leader. It wants the quick-fix, instant-gratification, instant-leader pill and “make it snappy because I’ve got other things to do.”

A leader is not something you become in exchange for money. What is fundamentally wrong with Corporate North America is that there is a mistaken belief that you can have anything you want if you have the money to do it. And that includes being a leader. Money is not leadership. Power is not leadership. Fame is not leadership. Ruthless is certainly not leadership.

A parent is as much a leader as a CEO. The office whiner is as much a leader as his supervisor if people are following. The first person to loot a store during a riot is a leader if others follow. Osama Bin Laden is as much a leader as any head of state.

Leadership is NOT exclusive to the workplace. In fact, leadership has nothing to do with work. Leadership is a character trait, a state of mind, an attitude. How can you define an attitude?

People follow people they want to follow. There is no explanation for that. People who are considered natural leaders are people that others wish to emulate. The trick, however, is in following the person and not their results (i.e. money, power, fame). The Dalai Llama is a far better example of authentic leadership than Donald Trump. People follow Trump for his power and money when the world would be a different place if they’d follow the Dalai Llama. Trump is a leader as is the Dalai Llama.

What defines a leader? If Bin Laden and the Dalai Llama can both be considered leaders, then it is not a list of traits that form their make-up. It is the attitude they possess that causes others to follow them, to listen when they speak and to change the world for the better or worse. When Corporate America learns to follow decency instead of thirsting for power, then it will finally start seeing the real leaders emerge again. And once we figure out how to make money from “decency,” you can bet it will be the next big thing.

Kevin Burns, Author & Attitude Adjuster is a worldwide authority on Attitude. He is the author of seven books including his latest, “Go Ahead. Give Me Attitude!” He is an outstanding keynote speaker, worldwide columnist and international Blogger of influence. He is opinionated, blunt, direct, funny, thought-provoking, incredibly well-researched and usually right!

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