UNIT 5_LEADERSHIP
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- Leadership - the ability to continuously influence a team of individuals and encompasses many important traits.
- leadership - focuses on the ongoing motivation, engagement and productivity of a team
- Purpose and importance of Leadership
- Inspiring and Motivating Teams
- Providing Clear Guidance
- Making Critical Decisions
- Communicating Vision
- Fostering Open Communication
- Taking Ownership and Accountability
- Adapting to Change
- Effective Leadership - has a lot to do with inspiring, aligning and then activating -- but it doesn't end there.
- Core Leadership Skills
- Self-Awareness
- Communication
- Influence
- Learning Agility
- Self-Awareness - Knowing and leading yourself is key to becoming as effective as possible at leading others.
- Communication - one of the most basic, across-the-board leadership skills that all of us need to develop and refine during our careers.
- Influence - communicate your vision and goals, align the efforts of others, and build commitment from people at all levels.
- Learning Agility - we need to be active, agile learners.
- 6 main leadership theories
- Great man theory
- Trait Theory
- Behavioral Theory
- Transactional or management theory
- Transformational or relationship theory
- sitational theory
- Great man theory - great leaders are born with all the right personality traits such as intelligence, courage, confidence, intuition and charm.
- Trait theory - certain natural qualities tend to create good leaders
- Behavioral theory - focuses on how a person’s environment, not natural abilities, forms him or her into a leader.
- Transactional or management theory - also called "management theory," states that leadership is a system of rewards and penalties.
- Transformational or relationship theory - also called "relationship theory," asserts that effective leadership is the result of a positive relationship between leaders and team members
- Situational theory - the best kind of leader is one who can adapt their style based on the situation