Team Leadership

Learning Objectives

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

  1. Define leadership and understand its social role.
  2. Understand the key considerations in managing teams, including fostering support and performance.
  3. Learn the different types of leadership styles.
  4. Learn ways to develop leadership skills.

INTRODUCTION

This module provides a snapshot of leadership. When you hear the term leadership you might associate it with the management or executive in the corporate world.

But leadership refers to:

“a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal” (Kruse, 2015, para 11)

The above definition has four main elements:

  1. “Leadership stems from social influence, not authority or power”
  2. Leadership requires others, and that implies they don’t need to be “direct reports.”
  3. There are many styles and paths to effective Leadership, and it is not based on personality, traits, or titles.
  4. “It includes a goal, not influence with no intended outcome”

(Kruse, 2015, para 11)

No matter how excellent or proficient team members in a group are, improper or misguided Leadership will result in sub-par results.

REFERENCES

Kruse, K. (2015, September 2). What Is Leadership? Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2013/04/09/what-is-leadership/?sh=443737a35b90

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