In one of my past jobs as hostess,I was in contact with three managers of the restaurant. Each managers' different leadership style affected me in different ways. For a little background I worked at this job for about a year so we can say my confidence and readiness were very high in this position. Because of my competence in this position a good leadership match would be participating or delegating, luckily two of my managers did just so. I felt they had confidence in my experience and trusted me with tasks and solving problems. This made working with these managers and my feeling about my position to be very positive. Unfortunately I also experienced a mismatch instance of leader follower perspective that proved to be unenjoyable. This manager who was new to managing this restaurant preferred to control every aspect of everyones' position so it would match his specific preferences. I would classify his leadership style as telling. Instead of trusting my opinion and giving me freedom within my job, he micro managed my every move. Because of his mismatched telling leadership style, I felt like he didn't respect me as coworker, which in the end, led me to look for a new position where I could feel more valued and independent.
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