Leading with technology : Leadership styles and skills in promoting employee innovation

Leadership styles and skills in promoting employee innovation
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Leadership skills and styles in promoting innovation in an organization
Leadership is a process of social influence where a person enlists the support and aid of others in the achievement of a common goal, objective or task. Various schools of thought have come up with different definitions of leadership, styles and characteristics. However this paper seeks to discuss concept of leadership styles and skills in leading change and promoting innovation in an organization. As the leader of the task force charged with promoting innovation, one is required to exhibit leadership equation, power of vision, significance of ethics, ability to empower people, principles of leadership, human abilities and understanding, high level of effectiveness, ability to develop other people, and performance management (Weiss & Legrand, 2011).
In order to promote innovation in an organization effectively, a leader needs to possess various leadership skills. In addition, a leader needs to exhibit distinct leadership traits, behavior, styles and qualities. As a leader one needs to be able to provide awareness of unity to all members of the organization. The members will also have the ability to develop interpersonal relationship where every member gets a chance to learn from each other and contribute to work. In order to enhance togetherness towards achieving our common goal, a leader must portray leadership qualities and skills (Weiss & Legrand, 2011).
The leadership skills required in promoting technology and innovation in an organization include: listening ability, awarding credit to the organizational members, honesty, effective communication, ability to stick to strategies and goals, ability to beat anxiety and shape character, service oriented, accountable and responsible, empathy, and keeping cool. In using these leadership skills a leader needs to adopt various leadership styles to ensure the organization achieves their goals effectively and efficiently. A combination of different styles of leadership works well in any environment especially where the public is involved. Some of the leadership styles used in showing the mentioned skills include: authoritarian style of leadership, a leader in this case remains strict and offer close regulation and control, policies and procedures given to the organizational members (Weiss & Legrand, 2011).
Achieving success in an organization that deals in technology is not easy. A leader needs to provide supportive and close supervision. Democracy leadership style is of importance, here...