What are the different leadership styles and how do they impact workforce performance?

Daniel Goleman identifies six leadership styles, four with positive impacts and two with negative effects. The positive styles include: visionary (articulating motivational goals), coaching (helping people develop skills and reach career goals), affiliative (building social connections), and consensus-oriented (involving others in decisions). These styles create optimal emotional states for performance. The negative styles are pacesetting (leading by example but being overly critical) and command-and-control (coercive, sometimes involving anger or humiliation). Goleman emphasizes that a leader's primary responsibility is to create an emotional environment that helps people perform at their best, as the leader's emotional state significantly impacts the entire team.