Leadership

Question 1

Leadership Styles (8: SALC-DATT)

Answer 1

Situational leadership means adapting your leadership style to every member of the team
Authoritarian: makes all the decisions, does not take into account the team’s input.
Laissez-faire(/delegative): This leader allows the team to be completely independent and free to make decisions, intervening only when asked to.
Consulting leadership style: discussing and observe the team’s needs before adopting a particular style.
Democratic: values input from the team and encourages discussion and decision making.
Affiliative leadership style: (=people first) focuses on relationships among team members and creates harmony within the team.
Transformational leadership: a transformational leader can be inspiring because they create enthusiasm and energy within the team with their passion
Transactional leadership: This type of leader creates a rigid structure by assigning tasks to their subordinates and creating a reward system for following the rules. There is a chain of command

Question 2

How to develop a team

Answer 2

1. Identify my working and leadership stile
2. Establish clear roles, responsibilities and expectations
3. Empower my team to make smart decisions
4. Encourage listening and feedback
5. Foster trust, belonging and inclusivity
6. Provide coaching
7. Encourage a growth mindset

Question 3

Leadership Theories - Situational

Answer 3

Leadership Theories - Situational

Question 4

Leadership Theories - Great man theories

Answer 4

excellent leaders are born, not developed (popular conception in the 19th century). Leadership is an inherent quality.

Question 5

Leadership Theories - Johns Adair’s action centred leadership:

Answer 5

People can be trained to be good leaders, they are not born, but made

Question 6

Leadership Theories - Trait theory

Answer 6

certain natural qualities tend to create good leaders (good potential): intelligence, people skills, decisiveness, creativity, competency, trustworthiness

Question 7

Leadership Theories - Goal-setting theory

Answer 7

by Edward Locke (American psychologist). There is framework to understand and set specific and challenging goals: clarity, challenge (but achievable), commitment (to the common goal), feedback, task complexity (breaking them down).

Question 8

Leadership Theories - Syer & Connelly:

Answer 8

Teams are systems that are continuously changing by input from within the team (ideas, relationships, etc.) and are therefore dynamic.

Question 9

Leadership Theories - Mintzberg 5 P’s for management strategy:

Answer 9

Plan (having guidelines)
Ploy (having ways to be successful against opponents/competitors)
Patterns (strategies)
Position (having an environment, a location)
Perspective (being united by common thinking and behaviour)

Question 10

Leadership Theories -Belbin:

Answer 10

He identified eight roles that if implemented and represented equally will make a strong and best-working team.
Shaper; Planner. Co-ordinator, Monitor, Resource Investigator, Implementer, Team worker, Completer and Finisher, and Specialist.
He developed a test for team members to find out their role and this is used worldwide today in recruitment and team development

Question 11

Leadership Theories - Hezberg’s theory

Answer 11

There are two elements to consider, motivation and hygiene factors.
Hygiene factors are essential to prevent dissatisfaction and are the base of motivation: Working conditions, quality of supervision, salary, security, company, policies.
Motivation factors are needed as they cause satisfaction within the team: achievement, recognition of achievement, responsibility of task, interest in the job, advancement to higher level tasks, growth.