Identification should include the following benefits of versatility:
- Allows leaders to assume the leadership style that would best enable the team to accomplish its goals
- Allows leaders to get the most out of different types of followers
- Allows leaders to capitalize on the strengths of multiple leadership styles vs. using the same leadership approach consistently in every situation, which often reveals the weaknesses of the particular style.
Process/Skill Questions:
- In what type of situation would one use a participative leadership style?
- What conditions should exist to warrant use of the delegative leadership style?
- When might one choose an authoritarian leadership style?