by Christopher Blydenburgh

Created on: August 26, 2009

Leadership is defined as a social influence process in which the leader seeks the voluntary participation of subordinates in an effort to reach organizational goals. A leader trait is a physical or personality characteristic that can be used to differentiate leaders from followers. A leadership prototype is a mental representation of the traits and behaviors possessed by leaders. In the business world there are various styles of management that are necessary based on the particular situation at hand. The idea that management styles should be adapted to each situation is referred to as situational theories.

One's leadership style is the way that he or she typically prefers to manage crew, situations, processes, and themselves in personal and professional manners. There are many levels of leadership style. Some of the styles that are more common are: Autocratic leadership, Bureaucratic leadership, Charismatic leadership, Democratic leadership/participative leadership, Laissez-faire leadership, People-oriented leadership/relations-oriented leadership, Servant leadership, Task-oriented leadership, Transactional leadership, and Transformational leadership.

My personal preference to leadership styles is referred to as Situational Leadership. This is more like a melting-pot of all of the popular leadership styles whereas I typically adapt my ways of leading and the level of reaching I put into the role based on the individual needs of each situation. There are some cases where I can simply present a mission to my team and they can then handle things on their own. However, so new developments require me to get on the floor with the crew and physically involve myself with the details for getting the job done. There are several factors that require me to change my leadership styles for each case. Some of these factors include: developing of new concepts for the business, training new managers and crew members, VIP client projects, and so on.

I am the owner/developer of an office and marketing business within the virtual platform called 'Second Life.' Our firm is a grid-wide directory of businesses and skilled persons that need to market themselves to the rest of the over nine million Second Life users in rather affordable and useful mediums. I have a small group of sales reps and writers that is responsible for bringing more advertising clients to our group.

Motivating Staff to achieve personal and group goals

People have various levels of interest when it comes

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