The document discusses leadership skills, behaviors, and styles. It identifies 11 key skills of effective leaders including understanding needs, using resources, communicating, planning, controlling performance, evaluating, setting examples, sharing leadership, counseling, representing the group, and teaching. Leaders can exhibit directive or supportive behaviors, and have styles such as directing, coaching, supporting, or delegating depending on the combination of these behaviors.
The document discusses leadership skills, behaviors, and styles. It identifies 11 key skills of effective leaders including understanding needs, using resources, communicating, planning, controlling performance, evaluating, setting examples, sharing leadership, counseling, representing the group, and teaching. Leaders can exhibit directive or supportive behaviors, and have styles such as directing, coaching, supporting, or delegating depending on the combination of these behaviors.
The document discusses leadership skills, behaviors, and styles. It identifies 11 key skills of effective leaders including understanding needs, using resources, communicating, planning, controlling performance, evaluating, setting examples, sharing leadership, counseling, representing the group, and teaching. Leaders can exhibit directive or supportive behaviors, and have styles such as directing, coaching, supporting, or delegating depending on the combination of these behaviors.
Objectives Evaluate the skills of an effective leader Evaluate the behavior styles of leaders Evaluate the leadership styles based on different behaviors Skills of An Effective Leader 1. Understanding the needs and characteristics of the job
Includes understanding your own needs
and the needs of others Skills of An Effective Leader 2. Knowing and using the resources of the group
Resources include all things necessary to
do a job, including people, knowledge, skills, and attitude Skills of An Effective Leader 3. Communicating
Includes being a good listener and a good
speaker. Should be able to explain to others and help them understand. Skills of An Effective Leader 4. Planning
Includes considering task at hand,
examining resources, considering alternatives, evaluating your decisions, carrying out the plan, and evaluating the plan Skills of An Effective Leader 5. Controlling group performance
Control must be maintained for job to be
completed. Setting the example is most effective way of controlling. Skills of An Effective Leader 6. Evaluating.
Includes measuring the group’s
performance to see how well the job was done and how well the group worked together Skills of An Effective Leader 7. Setting the example
Most important leadership skill. Best way
to show others how to conduct themselves. Skills of An Effective Leader 8. Sharing leadership
Includes offering others in group the
opportunity to be the leader and teaching them the leadership skills they need Skills of An Effective Leader 9. Counseling
Includes helping people with their
problems and encouraging or reassuring them Skills of An Effective Leader 10. Representing the group
Leader should represent ideas and
opinions of the group as a whole Skills of An Effective Leader 11. Effective teaching
Includes increasing the knowledge, skills,
and attitudes of the group and its members Leadership Behaviors Divided into 2 behavior styles: Directive Behaviors Supportive Behaviors Directive Behaviors Task-oriented behaviors Accomplish goals by Giving directions Establishing goals and methods of evaluation Setting time lines Defining roles Showing how goals are to be achieved One-way communication Supportive Behaviors Relationship-oriented behaviors Leaders help group members feel more comfortable about themselves, their co- workers, and the situation Two-way communication Leadership Styles Directing Coaching Supporting Delegating Directing Focuses on goal achievement Spends little time using supportive behaviors Leader gives instruction and supervises subordinates carefully High directive-low supportive style Coaching Focuses on both goal achievement and maintenance of groups emotional needs Leader gives encouragement and solicits the input of subordinates High directive-high supportive style Supporting Does not focus exclusively on goals Leader uses supportive behaviors to bring out employees’ skills Leader gives subordinates control for day- to-day decisions but is still available to solve problems High supportive-low directive Delegating Subordinates take responsibility for getting job done the way they see fit Leader gives control to subordinates and does not interfere with unnecessary social support Low supportive-low directive Leadership Styles High Supportive Low Supportive