What types of leaders and leadership approaches are there?

According to Goleman, Boyartzis and Mckee, there are 6 types of emotional leadership approaches. These approaches are listed as:

1. The Authoritative Approach
2. The Pacesetting Approach
3. The Coaching Approach
4. The Affiliative Approach
5. The Democratic Approach
6. The Coercive Approach Apart from this, there are all many other leadership approaches known as the leadership frameworks which propose and define various approaches to leadership. Some of them are:

• The Blake- Mouton Leadership Grid
• The Path Goal Theory
• Lewin’s Leadership Framework
• Flamholtz and Randle’s Leadership Framework
• The Big 5 Personalities Framework
• Ohio State Studies
• Fiedler’s Contingency Model
• Situational Leadership Theory
• Leader- Participation Model
• Leader Member Exchange (LMX) Theory Additionally there are behavioural theories which suggest that leaders can be production oriented or employee oriented. However, there is one other important approach with which people categorise leaders on the basis of the change they are leading as transactional leaders and transformational leaders.