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leadership style

leadership style

6 3.7
A way a person manages and works with a team
  • noun
translation icon : estilo de liderazgo
  • Many employees appreciate her leadership style because it encourages collaboration and innovation.
  • collaborative leadership style
  • prevalent leadership style
  • personal leadership style

Yeah, leadership styles have had to change or evolve.

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Examples

  • Therefore, there is a need to further study predominant leadership styles among department chairs.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Tell me about your leadership style at Twitter and how even the improv training fits into how you deal with things in this world.

  • And do you feel that it changed your leadership style at all to go through that experience?

  • But I have learned over time that I like to lead by example and that that my leadership style is all about communication.

  • So can you talk a bit about how you changed leadership style from the early days then let's make that the last question.

  • You know, in my book Taking People with You, I write about, you know, my leadership style and I'm a marketing person.

  • Yeah, leadership styles have had to change or evolve.

  • In this study, the principal's leadership style was associated with the teachers' satisfaction.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Do you think yours and Giuliani's leadership styles were parallel?

  • His findings also suggest that the effective school principal uses a combination of leadership styles to ameliorate these variables.

    Academic text (2006)

How Directive

leadership style
6 3.7
leadership
514 3.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

leadership + style

The meaning 'the manner or approach a person uses to lead' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'leadership' (capacity to lead) and 'style' (characteristic manner). This noun-noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be understandable to an average B1 learner who knows both constituent words.

Etymology

Leadership style joins leadership (being in charge) and style (a usual way of doing things). Think of leaders wearing different clothes so you can see how they act—one may seem strict, another friendly—and that image shows why the phrase means 'the way a person leads'.