leadership is the process of influencing the activities of an organised. group towards the attainment of goals who is leader leader is that person who guide every individual to proper direction is called a leader now what are the characteristics of the leadership first priority of need the basic notion of a functional leadership is to provide the members some basic primary need the need of the group are bound with three factor first the individual second the the group and third is both individual and group 2) focus on action 3) result oriented result oriented mean the functional leader should know what should be the result 4) flexibility and 5) clear understanding among employee or member 6) organising 7) motivation motivation means the functional leader must appreciate others people or members.next topic would be what's are functions of leadership 1) setting goal 2) intiating acting 3) organising 4) coordination and 6) direction and motivation. and now what are types of leadership first is autocratic leadership that means to control entire team or members of the .group and it's characteristics are close supervision 2) is total authority and third is complete control.and fourth is solo decision making. then second type is democratic leadership that means in which two or more people discuss about their.own ideas and opinium etc and it's characteristics are creativity social isolation and group decision making and now third type of leadership is free rein leadership which means full freedom for group members and employes and it's characteristics is lot of freedom for group members little instruction from leaders team members are responsible for decision making . then fourth type is transactional leadership which means where employee is given an rewards it's characteristics are first is lots of instruction clear duties and clear goals and inflexibility.etc and now last type is transformational leadership which means where motivation and inspiration are required and it's characteristics are first is energetic enthusiastic passionatic etc.