Week 10 Group Activity

Klaudia Caushi (101514215)

Volodymyr Kolodii, (101520061)
1. Discuss Shackleton's leadership style in two paragraphs.
2. What are the important lessons and take aways for you as future leaders? List at
least three (can be more) lessons learned in this activity.

We consider Shackleton’s leadership style as transformational, that is

empowering motivation, morale and performance of everyone. He considered
every team member, and he would never ask them to do things that he would not
do. Every crew member was important to him, and everyone was treated equally.
His leadership style can also be described as affiliative, that is prioritizing people
and emotions over tasks and goals. In the middle of that life threatening situation
he organized activities, such as waltz, dog races etc. so that everyone would not get
desperate and think of the hard situation they were in.
The way he could adapt to unpredictable life-threatening situations and the ability
to seamlessly manage going from mission to mission makes him a great leader.
Being able to take full responsibility for everybody makes him an outstanding
leader.
2. Below are some important lessons that we learned.
We understood that being a team leader it is not only about meeting the goals and
deadlines. If you are a good leader, you will prioritize your team and their
emotions.
Being a good leader also means being able to adjust to unpredictable situations
without losing hope and demotivating your team.
Another trait of being a good leader is the ability to keep your friends close and
your enemies closer. This way you will avoid the spread of negativity from the
toxic team members to others.
A good team leader should also be able to evaluate all possibilities and threats so
that they can adapt and solve hard situations with no harm to teams.