Negative and positive approaches of an Effective Leader.

   
There are two ways in which a leader would approach its followers/employee's, positive and negative.  Positive leaders use rewards such as education, independence etc to motivate there employees/followers. Negative leaders focus on giving penalties if the work is not done the way they wanted.  Some leaders use the negative approach and it is effective sometimes, but it should be used carefully.

Negative leaders act superior with people.  Leaders who use an negative approach think that the only way to get things done faster and right is by giving penalties, such as not paying them for the day etc.  They believe that their power to control is increased by frightening everyone into higher levels of productivity.  If this force is used, what happens is that morale fails, which leads to less work done by the followers/employees. The approach that should used more often by leaders is positive approach as the gain credibility.  If negative approach is used then the leader would most likely not be respected but be feared and would loose the trust of its employee's/follower, which is a sigh of not being an effective leader.




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