ABSTRACT
As control-addicted micromanagers, feeling the burden of personal responsibility for delivering the results, many supervisory leaders work excessive hours and suffer from high stress. Where leaders have an inclination to steer by directly controlling the activities people carry out, it is said that they have a supervisory leadership style. Leaders more inclined to steer by indirectly controlling conditions, instead of directly controlling activities, have a facilitative leadership style. At the basis of the facilitative leadership philosophy is the assumption that people will only be fully committed to the activities they carry out if they have bought into them by their own free will. The facilitative leadership style's emphasis on empowering people to self-steer is not only highly motivating for followers, but is also highly suited to the common situation that most leaders don't know which exact activities need to be carried out.
