leadership Flashcards
what is a leader
someone who has influence in helping others achieve their goals
what is a prescribed leader
appointed from outside the group
what is an emergent leader
someone who is appointed from within the group.
what are the 8 qualities needed to be a leader
- Charisma
- communication
- interpersonal skills
- Empathy
- Experience
- Inspirational
- confidence
- organisational skills
Charisma
the quality is hard to define, but is that certain demeanour, and presence, that the leader has which makes others listen and follow.
communication
the leader has to get the message across
interpersonal skills
The leader needs to interact with other members of the team and sometimes those outside the group.
empathy
The leader needs to be able to listen to others and take their views into account, showing an affinity with their views.
experience
Leaders would have a wealth of knowledge in their chosen sport built up over many years.
inspirational
Leaders need to encourage others and keep them trying even when the going gets tough
confidence
as we have seen in the previous section, confidence can be gained from others, so a confident apporach from the leader can spread to the players.
organisational skills
a good leader would plan and prepare for training, linking it to the demands of the team.
what is the autocratic approach
leader makes the decisions
what is a democratic
decisions are made by group consultation
person orientated leaderships
concerned with interpersonal relationships
what is task leadership
concerned with getting results.
what are the 3 key leadership styles
- the autocratic and task orientated style
- the democratic and person ordinated style
- the ‘laissez-faire’ style.
how could the influence of the leader and the group affect the choice of leadership style?
Fiedler’s contingency model of leadership
Fielder took into account one of the factors that influence leadership style, the situation. He suggested that the autocratic or task orientated style of leadership is best used in two opposite situations. When everything is good and when everything is bad. Fielder called a situation when everything is good, a most favourable situation, and when everything is bad, a least favourable situation.
Chelladuria’s multi - dimensional model of leaderships.
what is a favourable leadership situation
- the leader has respect
- there is a good support within the group.
- the group is of high ability
- there are high levels of motivation
- the task is clear to the team
- the harmony between leader and group
what is a unfavourable leadership situation
- there may be hostility between the group members.
- there is little respect for the leader
- the group has low ability
- the group has low ability
- the group members do not support each other
- motivation is low
- the task is unclear
- the leader is weak
what is a moderately favourable leadership situation
- there is a need or preference for consultation within the group
- motivation is moderate
- there is limited support
- the group has reasonable ability
what is Chelladurai multi dimensional model of leadership
- it looks at the other factors that influence the choice of leadership style, not just situation.
- he assessed the idea that the leader must use an interactive approach to balance aspects of teh situation and the leader and the group.
what is required behaviour
What the situation demands
what is actual behaviour
what the leader decides to do in relation to leadership style
what is preferred behaviour
what the group wants
