Traditional Leadership Models Flashcards
Provide examples of forms of leadership
- Coercion
- Cajoling
- Persuading
- Sacrificing
- Modeling
- Ordering
- Marshaling
- Predicting
- Visioning
- Rewarding
- Punishing
- Teaching
What is the central activity of leading?
Influencing
What are the 2 types of power?
- Assigned power
- Emergent power
What is assigned power?
- Assigned power is represented by formal rank or position in an organization.
Assigned leaders:
- Are expected to influence others
- Are told what and whom to influence
- May not actually be the most powerful people in an organization
What is emergent power
- Emergent leaders influence a group even though they are not assigned leaders.
- A group may look to an emergent leader instead of the assigned leader.
- Emergent leaders may gain power because they are
- Trusted and respected
- Competent
- Connected with other team members
- Fair and ethical
What is the difference between leadership and management?
Leadership is coping with change while management is coping with complexity.
What are some examples of leadership?
- Creating vision and strategy
- Aligning people and building coalitions
- Motivating and inspiring
- Influencing
What are some examples of management?
Executing plans; getting things done.
- Organizing resources
- Creating rules, boundaries, and policies
- Assembling the right team
- Creating structure
- Creating measurement systems
- Solving problems and making decisions
- Controlling
What is the trait approach to leadership?
- Most common model for understanding leadership
- Identifies five characteristics of great leaders.
- Intelligence
- Self - Confidence
- Integrity
- Determination
- Sociability
What does the intelligence trait of leadership comprise of?
- Surrounding yourself with smart people
- Being a quick study
- Observing and asking lots of questions
- Having strong verbal abilities
- Simplifying complex messages
- smart leaders can teach
What does the the self-confidence trait of leadership consist of?
The ability to be certain about one’s skills and competencies.
- Root of self-confidence is preparedness.
- Being prepared is highly correlated with confidence and clarity.
- Think about desired outcomes.
- Think about different ways you can express your thoughts.
- Practice and get input.
What does the determination trait of leadership consist of?
Determination is the desire to get the job done and includes characteristics such as initiative, persistence, dominance, and drive
- Thinking about potential obstacles before they happen
- Assessing risks obsessively
- Gaming possibilities
What does the integrity trait of leadership consist of?
The quality of honesty and trustworthiness
Integrity is based on ethics, values, and principles.
- Understand your own principles.
- Articulating your principles creates markers that followers can judge, understand, and observe.
- Consistency leads to trust.
What does the sociability trait of leadership consist of?
A leader’s inclination to seek out pleasant social relationships.
What is the 6th trait as discussed in the async material
Working hard
- Great leaders work hard
- working hard is a choice
