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Leading Your Team
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Many writers and teachers down the centuries have attempted to define the qualities of leadership. Is it something inherent – something you’re born with, or can anyone be a leader? And what does a leader have to do? What techniques can be employed, what actions taken, to turn a collection of individuals into a well-ordered, fully functioning unit?
In this workbook we will try to answer these questions. We’ll examine ways in which you, as a team leader, can improve your leadership skills, and so help your team to become more effective.
In Session A, we focus on the attributes of leadership itself, and try to decide which of them can be acquired or learned. An interesting aspect of this is a comparison between the skills needed for management and those which a leader should have. Most managers are expected to be leaders, but is a leader necessarily a manager?
Session B is concerned with just two facets of leadership: responsibilities and roles. We will put forward the view that a leader has three kinds of responsibilities: those to the task, to the team and to the individual team member. This three-fold burden, and the leader’s many other duties, may result in role conflict or role ambiguity; we look at this subject at the end of the session.
For Session C, the style of leadership comes under the spotlight. Each individual brings their own skills, attributes, attitudes, strengths and flaws to the team. The leader must be adaptable and adopt a style of leadership that is appropriate to the team at that time.
Joe Johnson and Deirdre Thackray - Personal Name
4th Edition
0 7506 5839 8
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Leading Your Team
Leadership
English
Pergamon Flexible Learning
2003
England
1-104
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