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[Updated 2023] The 5 Leadership Styles Along (With PPT Templates Included)

Lakshya Khurana

Leaders make an organization, whether a company, a school, or a government organization. The main goal of a leader is to establish an environment conducive to success, with unrelenting focus on encouraging communication and teamwork among people they lead. 

Leaders also provide direction, vision and inspire and motivate people to achieve organizational goals. Competent management and effective leadership are necessary for businesses to meet their goals.

How you manage your team depends on your personality and how you interact with others, regardless of the size of your team (it may be 10 or 10,000). Knowing your preferred style of leadership is the first step to enhancing it. 

In this blog, we'll discuss the most-renowned five prevailing leadership styles with readymade PowerPoint Templates.  and then go into how to identify and cultivate your own style. 

If you want to improve your leadership skills , read our full blog here .

Coming back to leadership styles, the five most common leadership styles are autocratic, participative, delegative, transactional, and transformational. Each style has its advantages and disadvantages when it comes to leading people.

The leader takes complete control over all decisions, usually excluding staff from the process and dictates procedures and goals.

• Participative

Leaders are open to employee feedback, value their teams' opinions, and involve them in decision-making. Participative leaders pay close attention to the individuals they lead.

Autonomy and adaptability are values that such leaders support. The freedom this leadership style delegates can be advantageous when the people being managed are highly trained, educated about their occupations, and capable of working efficiently with minimum monitoring.

• Transactional

The transactional leadership style adheres to traditional managers' stereotypes, emphasizing organization, monitoring, performance, compliance, and goal-setting while motivating employees through incentives and penalties.

• Transformational

Vision is everything, as these managers encourage their staff members and use empowerment, empathy, and recognition to energize their groups, assist them in achieving their objectives, and inspire them to go above and beyond to realize a common purpose.

This primer done, we now dig deep into top 15 PPT Templates that SlideTeam has curated to help you identify and build leadership styles of your own. 

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Template 1: Leadership Styles Quadrant Matrix for Motivation Enhancement

Positive thinking and a clear vision create motivational leadership. Motivational leaders are action-oriented, establish clear objectives, and give their people the resources and tools needed to succeed. They bring out the best in their team members and encourage them to work together toward a common objective. The quadrant template offered here evaluates where you stand on the opposing forces of direction versus supporting behaviors. This is a clear visual indication of your leadership style and helps you decide what to do to improve. Get this template now, and start work on your leadership skills with immediate effect. 

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Increase focus on issues affecting individuals with our predesigned leadership and board leadership PPT Template. Use the presentation template to discuss leadership styles like commanding, visionary, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, or coaching. It will help you to improve your leadership and provide good governance for your organization. Download now and deliver your ideas. The tabular format mapping each leadership style to a leader’s mannerisms makes it clear to distinguish between the types.  

Template 3: Six Leadership Styles for Every Business

The six leadership styles that US author and world-renowned authority on emotional intelligence Daniel Goleman developed are illustrated in this PPT Template. For project managers and business owners, the idea has enormous advantages. It aids in creating a brief evaluation and a clear connection of the effects of leadership on people and their surroundings. Most often, leaders must be able to change their leadership styles as the situation demands. Download now to study the six styles that range from visionary to autocratic.

Template 4: Leadership Styles Economy Study Considering Business Level Strategies

Strategy formulation is an essential process in business. Talk in-depth about leadership considering business-level strategies and their significance. Use this PPT Template to research theories and inform your audience about diverse leadership styles and economic studies. This PPT template is a handy tool for providing direction for your actions.

Template 5: Leadership and Broad Leadership Styles Talk PPT Presentation Portfolio Styles

Use this fantastic PPT Template, designed to describe broad leadership styles. This slide presents a leadership style based on the relationship and tasks. It also explains how leadership styles can use employee capabilities to establish high-performing teams. Download now and demonstrate how a leader should manage their team to complete a project or business venture.

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The customer service industry has to use leadership strategies pretty frequently. Analyzing each one and finding the best for your business is key for business success. Use our readymade PPT Templates to compare and contrast leadership styles and create concentric marketing commerce strategies. Download and obtain the information.

Template 7: Four Leadership Styles Hersey and Blanchard Corporate Leadership

According to the Hersey-Blanchard Model, no leadership style is superior. The approach advises that leaders should adapt their techniques to those they lead and their strengths rather than concentrating on workplace conditions. Our predesigned PPT template on four leadership styles helps discuss the task and relationship-relevant leadership styles. Download now and see leadership as a fluid dynamic than mere fixed personality traits. 

Template 8: Leadership Styles Based on Authority Democratic Corporate Leadership

Leaders must showcase specific emotional intelligence skills like self-confidence to have their way. They must create a vision and motivate others to follow it. Use our predesigned PPT template to discuss leader’s action plans according to their leadership style. It will help them to decide what should be done and how to do it. The ultimate aim is to achieve strategic business goals. Get this template now!

Template 9: Four Effective Change Leadership Styles for Managers

Influential leaders adapt their behavior or approach to leadership in response to conditions. This PPT Template presents data on leadership styles. You can discuss authoritative, rational, positive influence, and supportive leadership styles in detail and choose what fits best for effective business results. This PPT offers an excellent foundation for defining the extent of change and determining how to support the workforce during the transition. Get this presentation template now!

Template 10: Situational Leadership Style Matrix with Followers Readiness

Leaders must modify strategies to suit conditions. Leaders deal with levels of follower-readiness by altering their relative emphasis on work and relationship behaviors. Use our PPT template matrix to showcase leadership style behavior according to tasks. Use this template to also discuss development levels of followers and build strategies. Get this template now!

Template 11: Leadership Styles Based on Authority Consultative PPT PowerPoint File Shapes

Recognizing your leadership style lets you give staff members the right direction and feedback. Disperse knowledge on authority-based leadership styles such as autocratic, democratic, free-rein, and persuasive using our PPT Template. Download this presentation template now!

Template 12: Key Behaviours of Four DISC Leadership Styles

Introducing the DISC model PPT Template to discuss the critical behavior of leaders to understand themselves. The DISC model analyses four personality factors to determine a person's overall behavioral style and preferences, i.e., Dominance(D), Influence(I), Steadiness(S), and Consciousness(C). Using this PPT template, you can discuss behavior and its impact on the organization. Download and share your ideas with your team to create the maximum impact with minimum fuss. 

Template 13: Organizational Multiple Leadership Styles Matrix

Leadership styles and techniques can differ depending on how complicated an organization’s structure is. Highlight organizational multiple leadership styles with this matrix chart PPT Template. Business leaders can use this presentation template to discuss leader details, goal alignment, unstructured issues, acceptance, fairness, disagreement, and common acceptance. Download now!

Template 14: Addressing Strategic Leadership Styles Strategic Planning Guide for Managers

This PPT Template allows you to display details about leadership, mostly on innovative, directive, and collaborative styles. You can discuss the qualities of each leadership style and advantages and disadvantages. Compare and contrast and make decisions. The slideshow is helpful for strategic planning managers and entrepreneurs. Get it now!

Template 15: Leadership Styles Integrated Model for Employee Management

This predesigned PPT Template works as a guide to improve the performance of others. You can use this integrated model to discus motivation, recognition, delegation, flexibility, structure, and global focus. It will be helpful to modify your leadership style according to the situation. Download now and start on the path to build a strong leadership style.

LEADERSHIP IS A MUST!

Leadership is both pleasing and challenging. The opportunities for rewards are numerous, but so are the obligations. Everyone has what it takes to be a leader in their field. Here is the road map to becoming a good and effective leader. Use these templates to make the necessary modifications and establish excellent leadership in your organization.

FAQs on Leadership Styles

What are the four main leadership styles.

No company can run effectively without leadership. Your leadership style determines how you influence those around you and how your actions affect the success of your business or division. The four main leadership styles are:

In autocratic leadership, a single person controls the organization or team. An autocratic boss dictates everything to subordinates. 

The democratic leadership method entails soliciting feedback and subordinates; the idea is that everyone can participate in decision-making.

• Laissez-faire

It entails empowering your staff, remaining detached, and trusting them to complete the task without continual supervision or questioning.

Transformational leadership involves establishing an ambitious goal and organizing your team around it.

What are the seven leadership styles in management?

Business leaders can adapt and lead effectively in any situation by being aware of the traits of below seven different leadership styles:

• Autocratic or Authoritative Leadership
• Democratic or Participative Leadership
• Coaching Leadership
• Strategic Leadership
• Transformational Leadership
• Laissez- Faire Leadership
• Charismatic Leadership

Each of these styles has both pros and cons attaches to it. The best course of action for a leader is, of course, to see which style fits which situation. This is very hard to do in practice, but good leaders do give it their best shot. 

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What It Takes to Give a Great Presentation

• Carmine Gallo

Five tips to set yourself apart.

Never underestimate the power of great communication. It can help you land the job of your dreams, attract investors to back your idea, or elevate your stature within your organization. But while there are plenty of good speakers in the world, you can set yourself apart out by being the person who can deliver something great over and over. Here are a few tips for business professionals who want to move from being good speakers to great ones: be concise (the fewer words, the better); never use bullet points (photos and images paired together are more memorable); don’t underestimate the power of your voice (raise and lower it for emphasis); give your audience something extra (unexpected moments will grab their attention); rehearse (the best speakers are the best because they practice — a lot).

I was sitting across the table from a Silicon Valley CEO who had pioneered a technology that touches many of our lives — the flash memory that stores data on smartphones, digital cameras, and computers. He was a frequent guest on CNBC and had been delivering business presentations for at least 20 years before we met. And yet, the CEO wanted to sharpen his public speaking skills.

• Carmine Gallo is a Harvard University instructor, keynote speaker, and author of 10 books translated into 40 languages. Gallo is the author of The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World’s Greatest Salesman  (St. Martin’s Press).

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