Participative Leadership
Participative leadership is a big hit in todays economy. Empowerment of your employees is something everyone says to be good. But is it really? Is participative leadership even connected with empowerment of your employees? Let’s talk a little about what participative leadership actually is and let’s take a look at some good and some bad sides of participative leadership.
What is participative leadership?
Participative leadership is when your employees help you with making decisions. Of course you can’t really expect them to do all decisions for you or help you with all of them. But it is very good to let them help you at some of them and take some of your work off of you.
Participative is good because if people make decisions about what they have to do, they are more likely to do it and they will definitely do it better. Also if they decide what they have to do, they will understand it very well, again leading to job getting dones faster and better.
As your organization grows, number of decisions you have to make every day is growing as well. Sooner or later you won’t be able to make all these decisions by yourself and it is very smart that you start teaching your emplyees how to make this decisions on their own. This will help you the moment when this will be a must.
Of course participative leadership has bad sides as well. First one is of course: Noone does is the way you do. You will have to accept that things will never be done 100% the way you’d want them to be done. That seems to be the biggest problem for most leaders. But it is a must! Because as I said, you just can’t do everything on your own.
Participative leadership has many other positives sides as well, but also many negative sides. In the end, I think it is good to at least try to implement participative leadership because it has more positive sides than it has negative ones.
Written by: Matt
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