Leadership & Navigation Flashcards
Daniel Goleman’s Leadership Approach ‘coercive’
Imposes a vision and Demands that the team follow a vision or solution
*Sometimes has a negative connotation but is needed in times of crisis
Daniel Goleman’s Leadership Approach ‘authoritative’
Leader Proposes a bold vision and invites the team to join this challenge
*Sometimes has a negative connotation but is needed in times of crisis
Daniel Goleman’s Leadership Approach ‘affiliative’
Leader Creates strong relationship with and inside the team, encouraging feedback
Daniel Goleman’s Leadership Approach ‘democtratic’
Leader invites followers to collaborate and commits to acting in consensus
Daniel Goleman’s Leadership Approach ‘pacesetting’
Leaders sets a model for high performance and challenges followers to meet these expectations
*For fast paced environments
Daniel Goleman’s Leadership Approach ‘coaching’
Leader Focuses on developing team members skills
Leadership Theories ‘Trait Theory’
Leaders possess cerain innate characteristics that followers do not posses
*Leaders are born–which could discourage leader development by implying that the ability to lead cannot be acquired with study or practice.
Leadership Theories ‘Behavioral Theory’
Leaders influence group members through certain behaviors
Behavioral Theory ‘Blake Mouton’
Country Club: low task, high relationship (Build relationships but no work)
Impoverished: low task, low relationship (Delegate and disappear)
Authoritarian: high task, low relationship (Ppl do what they are told w/o question and tend not to foster collaboration
Middle-of-road: midpoint on both task and relationship (Get work done but not leaders–on a success path to being leaders)
Team Leaders: high task, high relationship (Lead by example, foster team environment, encourage individual/team development)
Leadership Theories ‘Situational Theory’
Leaders can flex their behaviors to meet the needs of unique situations, employing both task or directive behaviors and relationship or supportive behaviors with EEs.
Situational Theory ‘Hersey Blanchard’
As team members grow in skill and experience, leaders supply the appropriate behavior:
Telling: EE is not yet motivated or competent
Selling: EE still needs focus and motivation
Participating: EE can be included in problem solving
Delegating: Very competent EE can have autonomy
*Think of new ppl that join: first you tell them what to do, then you sell them on why its important, then you allow them to participate in meetings, then they have full autonomy.
Situational Theory ‘Fiedler Contingency’
Leaders change the situation to make it more favorable or more likely to produce good outcome.
- Favorableness occurs when:
- Leader-member relationships are strong
- Task structure and requirements are clear
- Leader can exert necessary power to reach goals - Unfavorable Situtations must be changed to improve group effectiveness, this can include:
- Improving relationship between leader and team
- Changing aspects of the task (brekaing it down into pieces)
- Increasing or decreasing the leaders exercise of power
Situational Theory ‘Path Goal’
Leader performs the behavior needed to help EEs stay on track toward their goals.
Directive: help the EE understand the task and goal
Supportive: try to fulfill EEs relationship needs
Achievement: motivate by setting challenging goals
Participative: provide more control over work and leverage group expertise
Emergent Theory
Leaders are not appointed but emerge from a group.
*The group chooses the leaders based on interactions.
Types of Power
Using power to influence others requires understanding types of power:
Legitimate: created formally through title or position (Queen/King)
Reward: created when the leader can offer something in exchange ($$)
Expert: when a leader is recognized as intelligent (Scientist)
Referent: created by the force of the leaders personality (Charm)
Coercive: when the leader has power to punish (Police/Auditor)
