LEADERSHIP TYPES Directive leadership style Consultative leadership style Participative leadership style Negotiative leadership style Negotiative leadership style Delegative leadership style

Directive leadership style The directive leader tells his followers what to do, and how to do it exactly. He specifics standards required of his followers and exercise firm authority over them. Directive leadership style

» Consultative leadership style The consultative leader seeks the counsel of the whole team before making a decision on what the team should do. He is also task oriented, but he seeks the opinion of his followers as well. Consultative leadership style

Participative leadership style The participative leader puts himself as a member of the team and discusses possible decisions with the team. He seeks consensus before coming to a decision and everyone is supposed to take ownership in the final decision. Participative leadership style

» Negotiative leadership style The negotiative leader employs a more political approach to leadership. He has a personal interest in his decisions and he uses incentives to entice his followers to do certain things.Negotiative leadership style

» Delegative leadership style He takes back seat toward decision making, and allows his team to take their own course of action. He only sits down together with the team to discuss possible decisions that could be adopted.Delegative leadership style

Pertinent Issues Our Youth Face Today 1.Too Much Distraction With the TV, internet and other forms of media, the youth today are increasingly getting distracted by a lot of entertainment in their world today. While entertainment is not a bad thing in itself, but an overdose of it has created a selfish entertain-me culture in the youth. Because of all these distractions, the youth today have a greater challenge trying to perform a single task with focus and excellence. More often than not, something appearing to be more appealing will catch their attention and take their focus away from their initial task. Thats why good youth leadership skills should equip youth with focus. A good way to instill the value of focus in youth today is to engage them in sports, dance or martial arts. All these activities are invaluable in instill focus in youth. All of them require an immense amount of focus to be performed with excellence. With sports, you cant hit a tennis ball with power and precision unless you are focused in taking the shot. In dance, you cant perform a routine without error unless your heart is absolutely set on doing it well. The same goes with martial arts. When these youth apply focus in performing their everyday tasks, you will find that they are far more effective than the typical youth who is distracted by the many things around him. They will be far more efficient, clear and achieve much more in life than others.

2. A Lack of Fatherhood The youth these days lack a father figure in their lives. Many fathers have either left their houses or become passive, both leaving broken families in their trail. This has caused a whole generation of youth to be lost. Because their fathers have stopped giving them leadership or direction in their lives, they have seek out other less appropriate sources for their purpose. Often, they look to sources like TV to learn how to live their lives. As a result, youth today get the wrong values and the wrong way to live their lives. As someone with youth leadership skills, you have to provide fatherhood for the youth that you are leading. They need a father figure in their lives to show them purpose and give them the right direction for their lives. Mentorship is essential for youth today. You have to answer to the needs of youth one by one. They cannot just do with a teacher, or a leader; they need a father in their lives. If you can provide your youth with the much needed mentorship, you can raise them up to be strong leaders of tomorrow as well.

3. Too Many Options Another big challenge that youth face today is that they have too many options open to them. As a result, they lack commitment in any single task that they do. In Botswana, we have many youth not ever committed to any single cause or purpose because there are so many options for them to choose from. As a result, they start weighing their many options available to them and simply quit when the going gets tough in any one of their choices. I believe that this problem doesnt just lie with the youth in my country. I believe it applies to youth all over the world too. Although it isnt a bad thing to have a lot of options, but it is important as a youth leader to teach commitment in the face of such overwhelming options available to him. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. They need to learn the value of hard work and perseverance if they want to achieve anything worthwhile in their lives. Youth today have to realize that unless they put their whole heart into performing a single task well, they will not be able to succeed in life.

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THE END Prepared and presented by Bishop Flo 12/02/11