Skills approach to leadership

Question 1

What is the skills approach to leadership?

Answer 1

Suggests that knowledge and abilities an needed for effective leadership

Question 2

What are the three components to the three-skill approach?

Answer 2

Technical skill, human skill, and conceptual skill

Question 3

What is technical skill?

Answer 3

knowledge about and proficiency in a specific type of work or activity.

Question 4

What is human skill?

Answer 4

knowledge about and ability to work with people.

Question 5

what is conceptual skill?

Answer 5

the ability to work with ideas and concepts.

Question 6

What are the 5 components to the of the skills model

Answer 6

competencies, individual attributes, leadership outcomes, career experiences, and environmental influences.

Question 7

What are the three competencies?

Answer 7

Problem-solving skills, social judgement skills, knowledge

Question 8

What are the strengths of the skills leadership approach?

Answer 8

• leader-centered model that stresses the importance of developing particular leadership skills
• Because leaders exemplify skills, they are available to everyone.
• expansive view of leadership that incorporates a wide variety of components.
• consistent with the curricula of most leadership education programs

Question 9

What are the weaknesses of the skills approach to leadership?

Answer 9

• skills seem to extend beyond the boundaries of leadership.
• weak in predictive value
• claimed not to be a trait model when the model includes various individual attributes.
• may not be suitably applied to other contexts of leadership