leadership Flashcards
What are the barriers to effective communication?
- Use of jargon
- Emotional barriers
- Physical disabilities
- Physical barriers
- Language and cultural differences
What is the definition of leadership?
Inspiring others to follow you by creating a compelling vision of the future
What 3 things must a leader consider?
- The task
- The team
- The individuals in the team
What is the definition of management?
The efficient, effective and economic use of resource to achieve results with ans through the efforts of other people
What are the qualities of a good leader?
- Clear goal and sense of purpose
- Self-confidence and resilience
- Credibility
- Trustworthy
- Role model
- Communication capacity
- Emotional intelligence
- Inspirational
- Open minded
- Flexible thinking
Where does credibility come from? (max 3)
- Your reputation
- Your experience
- Your ability to deliver
What makes someone trustworthy? (max 4)
- Being clear about your values
- Being consistent with the values
- Being open and honest
- open minded
Name 2 leadership styles
Autocratic- Leadership depends on power and authority that comes with their position
Democratic- Leader depends on personal power, participative decision making and problem solving
When would you apply autocratic and democratic styles?
Autocratic- Inexperienced staff that will need clear and direct instruction
Democratic- Normally when you part of the information and your employees have the other parts of the information
What can neglecting a team lead to?
- Lack of discipline
- Poor focus
- Team conflicts
- low morale