How to be a great

leader?
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UNIVERSITY SERGIO ARBOLEDA 22

LANGUAGE CENTER TEACHER MEMBERS

Level 7 Sergio Silva Arnaldo Alarcón
Marianella Lubo
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION

PART 1:
LEADERSHIP: DEFINITIONS
AND CHARACTERISTICS
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A
BOSS AND A LEADER

PART 2:
TYPES OF LEADERSHIP
RESULTS OF THE RESEACH

CONCLUSION

HOW MUCH DID YOU

LEARN?

VIDEO

ACTIVITIES
Introducction
Leadership is one of the pillars to built an excellent team
work, but sometimes people doesn't know how to become
into a lear. This primer is gonna show you how you can be
a leader, the definitions, characteristics and types of
leader according a research by Kurt Lewin. After that, you
would be able to put on practice what you did learn.
Leaderships: definitions
and characteristics
PART 1

WHO IS A LEADER?

Being a leader is understandable by

many definitions according every
authors, but it can be resumed in a
person who finds opportunities and help
their teammates to be better and
improve their individual and groups
skills.

DEFINITIONS
"Leadership is the ability to influence a group
so that goals are achieved" (Gómez, 2002)
"Leadership is the process of influencing
others with teamwork, so that they work
enthusiastically to achieve their goals." Davis
& Newstrom (2003)

CHARACTERISTICS
A person focus on results

A person who puts orden in caos

A person capable to communicate

with others

A person who inspire others

A person who has commitment,

passion and able to motivate others
 DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN A BOSS
AND A LEADER
Generally, people use to confuse a leader with a boss and may be
their can be relate but their are not the same.

Let see the difference between them

BOSS LEADER
Formal authority over Positively influences
another others
Give orders Listens opinions
Take credit from Feeds the spirt of his
other's works team
Inspire fear Thinks before talk
Talks and then thinks Share the credit of the
results
Types of leadership
PART 2

About what is this chapter?

It’s about the types of leadership, you will find leadership models
based on theresearch of the Polish psychologist Kurt Lewin. His
research classifies leaders into three types: autocraticleadership,
liberal leadership and democratic leadership.

Kurt Lewin
He was a German psychologist
professor at theUniversity of Berlin,
in 1939 he tried to explain how human
behavior changed depending on the
type of leadership, therefore, he led a
research group to discover what the
ideal type of leader was.

Lewis' leadership
typologies
Groups
This research was based on observing
the change in human behavior depending Group 1: Autocratic
on the psychological environment in leadership.
which it is found.
Group 2: Liberal
To analyze the types of leadership, he leadership.
use 3 groups of children aged between
8-10 years; each group was given a Group 3: Democratic
monitor. Each monitor had clear leadership.
instructions on how they should lead
each of the groups.
 Group 2: the children of this

RESULTS OF group showed a behavior of

total freedom, they did not

THE RESEACH show interest in doing any of

Group 1: the children in this group
had aggressive behavior, they also
had extreme competitive behavior
among them selves. The children
in the group only worked when the
monitor was watching them to
work, but when the autocratic
monitors left, the children showed
aggressive behavior towards their
peers in the group. Finally, the
children in this groups exceeded
the objectives, they worked very
well due tothe competitive
environment.
the activities and they did not
reach any goal, the objectives
were not achieved, even
though the liberal leader was
watching them.
Group 3: the children of this
group managed to meet
theobjectives, all the goals
were achieved. The children
workedas a team even when
the democratic leader was not
watchingthem work, the
work environment was free of
violence and everyone
worked together.

Analyzing Lewin's contributions we can understand that

the best leadership model is the democratic model, because
it allows working with a group where all the people work
together to achieve a common goal, in addition there is no
violence or aggressive behavior, in the group there is no
competition between the members of the group, being a
group model allows decisions to be made together and in
thisway everyone decides what is going to be done.
Conclusion

Concluding, for be a leader you

must have certain of feature to
succes, because it's not about
individual work, a leader is focus
on groupal results and is able to
motive their mates even when
the leader are not fisically
present as we could seen in
Lewin's investigation.

Any person can be a leader, if

you prepare propertly and
develop the skills to try well
others people at the moment all
of you have a commun results,
giving motivation for be better.
HOW MUCH DID
YOU LEARN?

Video
Watch this video to improve your
knowledge about leadership and
test it in your daily life.

Activities
How much did you learn abour being a
leader?

Will you considerate a leader?

Do you know a leader in real life?

Would you put on practice what did

you learn in this primer?