LEADERSHIP Flashcards
Why is leadership important?
- vital to developing winning ways
- leadership occurs not from the top but from the middle of organizations
Why is clear communication important?
- leaders must be able to effectively share their directive and insights
What are three aspects to consider in regards to management of player personnel?
- selection of staff and players
- decision Making
- luck
What are the three C’s in the hardiness construct?
- commitment
- control
- challenges
How do we achieve high performance?
- time and effort to establish an effective mindset
- everyone is a stakeholder and must be an active participant
- development and experience
What are some aspects of cohesive teams?
- motives (choices)
- goal can not be reputation.
- acceptance of good and bad performances
- the mental menu!
What is leadership?
- the behavioural processes through which one person influences another person, or a group of others, toward attaining a specific set of objectives or goals
What are the two primary perspectives of leadership studied?
- personality
- situational/contextual
Can effective leadership be explained by personality traits or profile?
- digman’s five factor model (FFM) links personality to leadership and leadership effectiveness
- personality traits may play role in shaping leadership emergence and effectiveness.
What does Fiedler’s contingency model propose in regards to leadership?
- leadership style effectiveness was contingent upon leader’s situational control
What two types of leadership does Fielder propose?
- task oriented
- relationship-oriented
What is task-oriented leadership?
- pursued goals and performance attainment
- more suitable when leaders have high situational control
What is relationship-oriented leadership?
- maximizes quality of relationships among those being led
- more suitable when leaders have moderate levels of situational control
What are the three leadership frameworks?
- laissez-faire leadership
- transactional leadership
- transformational leadership
What is laissez-fair leadership?
- indifference, hesitancy to make decisions.
- non-leadership i.e. coach being disengaged
What is transactional leadership?
- leaders uses rewards/recognition to increase adherence to requests/orders
- includes component of active and passive forms of management-by-exception
- includes contingent-rewards component
What is transformational leadership?
- leaders go beyond self-interests and empower, inspire, and encourage followers
What are the four key behavioural dimensions of transformational leadership?
- idealized influence
- inspirational motivation
- intellectual stimulation
- individualized consideration
What is transformational teaching in physical activity associated with?
- improved beliefs and attitude
- greater motivation and self-efficacy
- greater enjoyment and satisfaction
- improved engagement within class
- improved involvement in leisure time activity
- greater effort in class
What is an athlete leader?
- a team member acting in a formal or informal capacity who guides and influences teammate towards a common objective
What are the three functions that leaders have on teasers?
- help accomplish task objectives i.e. mentoring new members
- address social needs by promoting team harmony and organizing team activities
- represent team at external functions
Who typically emerges as a leader?
- highly skilled, veteran, well-liked, intrinsically motivated and centrally located individuals
- those in formal roles
- informal leaders who may provide support, advice and guidance
What is the optimal number of leaders?
- depends on: structural interdependencies of group
- bigger teams = more leaders
- 1/5 for formal and 2/3 for informal
How does personality and behaviours of followers impact effective leadership?
- coaches style may work with one player but not another
- need to consider followers characteristics alongside leaders’ to help understand the effect of leader’s behaviours on those being led
Why is exercise leadership important?
- leaders’ behaviours can be enhanced to increase class attendance & satisfaction
- may impact participants’ physical and mental well being
Personal trainers can foster interactions that are characterized by what?
- attention to clients’ personal & psychological needs
- encouragement, enthusiasm, & optimism
- behaviours that build trust and respect
- appropriate role modelling
- enriched (versus bland) exercise program
Leaders in sport and exercise should……..
- articulate a compelling vision on how to operate (training, interaction)
- respond to individuals’ differences & needs
- assist in viewing challenges as opportunities & approach from multiple perspectives
- discuss their personal philosophy
- demonstrate enthusiasm and optimism
