LEADERSHIP STYLE

A Peaceful Evacuation: Building a Multi-Project Battalion by Leading Upward

A Peaceful Evacuation: Building a Multi-Project Battalion by Leading Upward

Leadership Style of Lieutenant Colonel Yaron

Democratic Leadership

Yaron uses Democratic style of leadership in order to make his final decision. We have seen at a time of platoon meetings that included an exercise in which all soldiers were required to share the most serious event that they thought to take place during the time of evacuation (Laufer, 2012).

Pros

In this discussion, each person had to open up himself and also speak without any concern and fear of Lieutenant Colonel Yaron which means complex problem can easily solved (Laufer, 2012).

Cons

Yaron leadership style may not good enough because it is time consuming and it would be against him in such important mission where time is everything.

Charismatic Leadership

A charismatic leadership style of leadership is another basic focused of Lieutenant Colonel Yaron. He is finding to show his leadership skills to enthusiasm in his team are try to energize them after motivating to move forward. “while attempting to the change the composition of his manpower, Yaron and his commanders were mostly focus on their routine operations that are required to prepare new battalion (Laufer, 2012).

Pros

Yaron boost the self confidence and boost the knowledge of both commanders and troops.

Cons

He can achieve his vision but this decision might be against him because he is empowering too much to his troops.

Task Oriented

We have also find that Lieutenant Colonel Yaron have an Task oriented leadership skills . He is focus on only on the getting job to be done that can be autocratic style type.

Pros

When his commanding officer asker him to volunteer for the evacuation operation as battalion commander (Laufer, 2012). He perceived it as a challenge ...