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Leadership
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The ability to direct or influence others behaviors and thoughts toward a productive end.
- May extent form one’s personal power or simply from group members admiration or respect for the individual. |
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Five Sources of Power
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Legitimate Power
Referent Power Reward Power Expert Power Coercive Power |
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Legitimate Power
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Comes from and individual’s role or title.
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Coercive Power
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Comes from a person’s ability to threaten or harm others.
Like a dictator’s power to keep people under control by threat of violence or economic hardship. |
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Reward Power
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A individual capacity to provide rewards.
Like if your boss offers everyone a paid day off if they work three late nights in a row. |
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Expert Power
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Comes from information or knowledge that a leader possesses.
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Referent Power
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Stems from admiration, respect, or affection that followers have for such a leader.
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Shared Leadership
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When several individuals take leadership roles.
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4 Leadership Styles
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Achievement – Oriented
Participative Supportive Directive |
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Directive Leadership Style
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Controls the group’s communication by conveying specific instructions to members.
Style works best when members are unsure of what’s expected of them or how to carry out the group’s tasks. |
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Participative Leadership style
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Views group members as equals, welcomes their opinions, summarizes points that have been raised, and identifies problems that need discussion rather announcing situation. Works Best when group members are competent and motivated to take on the task at hand
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Supportive Leadership style
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Attends to a groups members’ emotional needs.
a.Helpful when members feel frustrated with a task or the group’s progress. b.Stresses the importance of positive relationships in the group, reminding members of the group’s importance, and expressing appreciation for member’s talents and work ethic. |
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Achievement – Oriented Leadership style
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Sets challenging goals and communicates high expectations and standards to members.
Works best when group members see themselves as competent and are motivated to excel at their tasks. |
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complex set of forces that influence group decisions:
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Psychological Forces
Social Forces Cognitive forces |
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Cognitive forces
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Consist of group members’ thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. These effect how everyone in group perceives, interprets evaluates, stores, and retrieves, information, which in turn influences the group’s decisions.
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Psychological Forces
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The group members’ personal motives, goals, attitudes, and values.
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Social Forces
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Group Standards for behavior that influence decision making.
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6 Step Problem Solving Process
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1.Identifying the problem
2.Analyzing the Problem 3.Generating Solutions 4.Evaluating and Choosing Solutions 5.Implementing the Solution 6.Assessing the results |
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Steps to plan effective meetings
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1.Set and Agenda
2.Clarify the Purpose and The participants 3.Justify The meeting |
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Agenda
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Should detail the subject and goal of the meeting and logistics like time, place, or log in or conference call information.
i.Should also set a schedule for the meeting for group members know how much time block out for meeting and leader can manage time effectively |
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6 steps to managing meetings effectively
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•Arrive Prepared
•Keep the Group Focused •Summarize periodically •Keep an eye on the time •Manage Conflict •Follow Up |