Post Heroic Leadership

Question 1

Collective Leadership 4 Approaches

Answer 1

• shared leadership;
• pooled leadership;
• distributed leadership; and
• relational leadership

Question 2

Shared Leadership

Answer 2

a dynamic, interactive influence process among individuals in groups for which the objective is to lead one another to the achievement of group or organizational goals or both. This influence process often involves peer, or lateral, influence and at other times involves upward or downward hierarchical influence.

Question 3

Pooled Leadership

Answer 3

top leadership roles are formally structured so that no individual has the power to lead unilaterally. Instead,leadership is the joint responsibility of two or more people and requires mutual trust. (diad, triad)

Question 4

Distributed Leadership

Answer 4

takes abroad view of leadership, presenting it asdispersed within and throughout an organisationamong people at multiple levels. It is not based on top-down individual leadership approaches.

Question 5

Relational Leadership:

Answer 5

simultaneously social, cognitive, political (contextual, co-constructed)

Question 6

DAC Framework

Answer 6

1. Direction:agreement among a collective of people on the overall goals of the organisation.
2. Alignment:the organisation and coordination of work among a collective of people.
3. Commitment:the willingness of members of a collective to put to one side their own interests for the benefit of the group

Question 7

DAC Drawbacks

Answer 7

1. assumes leadership is linear
2. difficult to explain black box of leadership
3. assumes there is a stable outcome to leadership

Question 8

Leadership as Practice key principles

Answer 8

• relational
• influenced by context
• more than just people
• specific practices
• communication