3 Essential Roles of Leaders: Leadership Theory
3 Essential Roles of Leaders: Leadership Theory
3 Essential Roles of Leaders: Leadership Theory
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Principles
Leaders are made not born Formal Leaders
It can be learned Those who are officially assigned leadership
It requires certain traits responsibilities within the organization
No best style of leadership Informal Leaders
See below
Process of Leadership Informal Formal
Vision General Nature Unofficial Official
Power & Authority &
Major Concepts
Mission politics responsibility
Primary Focus Person Position
Source of Given by Delegated by
Critical Success
Factors power group management
Guideline for
Norms Rules
behavior
Goal Action Steps
Sources of
Sanctions Rewards/penalties
Control
Results
Factors of Leadership
Follower
ABC of Leadership Leader
Positive Attitude (self-knowledge) Situation
Effective Behavior (communication skills) Communication
Personal Confidence (transformative practice) How to Become a Good Leader
- Know yourself and seek self-improvement
Phases of Leadership Growth (Maxwell Johnson) - Be technically proficient
Phase 1 - Know your people and look out for their well-
- “I don’t know what I don’t know” being
Phase 2 - Keep your workers informed
- “I know what I don’t know” - Seek responsibility and take responsibility for
Phase 3 your actions
- “I grow and know and it starts to show” - Ensure that the tasks are understood,
Phase 4 supervised and accomplished
- “I simply go because of what I know” - Develop a sense of responsibility of your
workers
INEFFECTIV - Train as a team
EFFECTIVE
E - Use full capabilities of your organization
I III UNAWARE
II IV AWARE Moral Aspect of Leadership
- Release of human potential
Functions of a Leader
- Mutual interdependence of individual and
Motivators
group
Mentors
- Maintain and renew values
Confessors
- Foster individual initiative and responsibility
Cheerleaders
Coaches
Values
Role models
Sounding boards
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Deeply held values and principles provide the
road map for the way we lead, and the way
other people respond to it
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