Types of Leadership

In The Essential Guide to Group Communication reading, the chapter discusses types of leadership. They are authoritarian, consultative, participation, and laissez-faire. The authoritarian leadership is mainly controled by a leader with little or no input by other group members. Consultative leadership promotes collaboration of ideas between group members. Participative leadership usually guides and facilitates groups, but no other involvement. Lastly, the laissez-faire leadership is as if there is no actual leader and the group proceeds with the task with no assistance from this "leader". I personally believe I am an participative leader because I do not like when a group is unorganized and lacking a foundation. I am usually not the one to give in the most input or find the solution to the problem, but I help guide the rest of the group through the task. Like when working with my assigned political party group in a Civics class, I helped the group organize into the different jobs and informed them of which task they were to complete and bring back to me.