Successful leadership is all about building a good relationship with a team. Kylie Bell outlines for Eve Ash how Attachment Theory talks about the way our earliest relationships shape the relationships throughout the rest of our lives. She discusses the research on how leaders' earliest relationships may affect the way that they lead. For example, some leaders really avoid anything to do with conflict, or they don't want to give feedback. Whereas some are comfortable with delegation and building close relationships with their teams.
We've got different leadership styles:
These may have been impacted by our earliest relationships
There are similarities between parent/child relationships and leader/follower relationships.