The pace setting leadership style its extremely effective only when employees are self-motivated and are highly skilled. These leaders set very high performance standards for themselves and the group and epitomize the behaviors they are seeking from other members of the group.

The pace setting leadership style is useful when a group has been functioning together as an effective team for a while and are now performing in a good team culture. At this point, the leader may wish to step things up and move to a new level of performance for a project or short-term goal.

Following are the pros and cons:

• Pros: Gets high-quality results from motivated and competent teams: for example, sales teams.
• Cons: Can lack emotional intelligence. Like the commanding leadership style, the pace setting leadership style cannot be sustained for a long time as workers can often burn out due to its demanding pace.