December 14th, 2007
The Soft-Hard-Soft Leadership Style Model
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Read about how a soft-hard-soft leadership style works best in an environment that is constantly changing.
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Management literature is littered with debates on what is the right leadership style. Most of these models recognize that there is no right leadership style, that different leadership styles work in different environments.
Based on my own experience over the last few years, I have found that a soft-hard-soft leadership style works best in an environment that is constantly changing.
Simply put, a soft leadership style is focused on people and a hard leadership style is focused on targets and processes.
According to my Soft-Hard-Soft Leadership Style Model, managers need to adopt their leadership styles to how easy or difficult their environment is.
There are three stages in the Soft-Hard-Soft Leadership Style Model model –
Stage 1 - Soft-Soft
When the environment is soft and targets/ processes are not under pressure, managers should adopt a soft leadership style to maintain the feel-good factor in the team.
Stage 2 - Hard-Hard
