Taking Your Team With You; Heather Wright

This week Andy Lopata discusses leadership styles and how to encourage and inspire teams with Heather Wright. Heather is a neuro-scientist and is well known for her Leadership Programmes. Andy and Heather pick up from last week's podcast about command and control leadership to see if it is still used and do employees expect it? Are leadership styles changing because of hybrid working? Heather argues that effective leaders are promoted because they are good at building relationships, good at building teams and encourage collaboration. Exceptions are in crisis situations where there has to be trust and clarity of authority, such as in the military. Personal relationships are important within accepted behavioral standards. Leaders can be vulnerable and authentic in taking their team with them but must also be able to criticise, pull up, direct when necessary. If a team is not performing the leader is not working properly. Heather gives us five recognizable categories of leadership.