The top of a leader is to get things done by leading others to success, it's important to develop leadership styles that suit different situations depending upon the needs of the team or the team members. Great leaders choose their style based on the circumstances and the goals.

Here are the 5 leadership styles:

1. Structural leadership style

Everyone knows exactly what needs to be done, why it needs to be done, and what standard you accept complete responsibility for your staff. You choose them, you assign them and you manage them with the expectation of excellent work.

This style allows you to make quick decisions without the input or challenge of others, the structure of style can allow for more transactional activities to occur like rewarding or punishing team members based on their performance on your predetermined goals. Use this style when your team is already motivated and our experts who need a little direction. However, since there isn't much room for flexibility using this style too much or on a team that isn't already motivated can lead to them to feeling overwhelmed and stifle innovation.

2. Participative leadership style

You'll make your team feel that you really care about them. Firstly, you practice the friendship factor with them which is composed of three components time, caring, and respect. You treat them with the same respect patience and understanding, the same way you would treat family members or friend you express care and concern for them and their problems which fosters a feeling of bonding belonging and ownership to the organization.

This style boosts your team's morale by allowing them to participate in reaching a consensus of decisions and goals. Their opinions and voices feel heard which will help them change easier, it also works best when you need fresh ideas or new perspectives. Use this style during stressful times or when trust needs to be built and maintained but excessively relying on praise and nurturing can cause mediocre performance over time and a lack of clear strong direction for the company.

3. Servant leadership style

This leadership makes the participative style more one-sided where you see your job as a means to serve your team just as they are there to serve you in the company. You practice the golden rule you manage other people the way you would like to be managed. You ensure that everyone understands their job fully and has all the tools they need before they begin.

This style really elicits peak performance because your employees are learning vital skills that will both improve their performance and improve them as people their participation ideas and feedback truly feel like they matter. Choose this style with a diverse team, personalized management is required for each member. Certain leadership is a great style to start off with to gain a great deal of respect trust and loyalty and to build a strong culture center tailors to the team's needs, but if you don't balance the style very well, this could lead to your team fully running the show lack of authority and limited direction and vision.

4. Freedom leadership style

You give your people with the freedom to perform, once you assign a task you try to stay out of the way only to comment and help when needed. You take on more an authoritative role by pointing the team towards a vision or goal but similar to the service style you leave the means up to each member.

This style inspires an entrepreneurial spirit with a clear goal in your team members, especially if they need a new vision due to changes within the company. Use this style when you have tremendous expertise and have a team of highly experienced employees who don't require a lot of supervision but the freedom style won't work well when your team are better experts than you or who need more supervision, this can lead to poor production lack of regular feedback and lack of control.

5. Transformational leadership style

Leaders affect people's emotions by paying a big exciting picture of the future, you transform people by tapping into their hopes and dreams and ideals. You motivate employees by being motivated yourself and enhance productivity through high transparency and communication.

This style uses vision and the future to get your team excited and committed to a project, it doesn't only require the ownership of your team to accomplish goals, it also requires your ownership and involvement as a leader. You lead by being excited totally committed yourself in everything you say and do. Use this style to focus on building lasting personal strengths that make your teammates more successful and confident in themselves and the company. Unless you lack proficiency or your team is defiant willing to change. You learn this style will inspire work to alleviate fears and help you overcome obstacles altogether.

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