What strategies do managers use in order to achieve their goals?

The truly effective managers vary their approaches depending upon the context, the team, the deadlines and the pressure being placed upon them by their executives and stakeholders. The different leadership styles and strategies are essentially a pattern of behaviours that managers use when trying to influence others, some examples are listed below:

• Autocratic - Dictatorial and Telling,
• Consultative Autocratic - Consulting the team, listening then telling,
• Consensus - Democratic, consulting the team and then going with the majority,
• laissez-Faire - Virtual Abdication and lettin the team decide what they want.

Each style or strategy needs to a balance of supportive behaviour and directive behaviour, and will depend upon the maturity, experience, competence and commitment of the team. As teams change or new changes happen, the management strategies will also have to adapt and change. Ultimately, whatever managers do the real key is not in motivating people (only they can do that), it is finding the things that help motivate them to do it for themselves (the motivating keys).

A leader must be an example,a motivator someone who people should look up to and see a hero in.