- "Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group, or organization to 'lead', influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations."
Developing strong leadership skills, being an effective communicator, and motivating staff to deliver the newsroom's vision and goals.
Leadership styles: Different leadership styles that can be used to manage teams, such as autocratic, democratic, transformational, and others.
Communication skills: Skills required to effectively communicate with team members, such as listening, giving feedback, prioritizing, and knowing when to speak and when to listen.
Conflict resolution: How to deal with conflict in a team setting, identify sources of conflict, and different methods to resolve disagreements.
Active listening: The ability to listen attentively and respond to people's needs and questions, demonstrate positive body language, and promote engagement.
Effective feedback: How to give constructive feedback to team members that will help them to improve and grow their skills and performance.
Time management: Managing one’s own time, as well as the time of team members, assigning tasks to the right people, and establishing timelines and deadlines.
Building trust: Developing trust with team members, establishing a shared vision and values, and building camaraderie in the workplace.
Decisiveness: Making good decisions that are consistent with the overall objectives of the team while considering what is best for everyone involved.
Accountability: Being accountable for one's own actions as a leader and holding team members responsible for their commitments.
Change management: Being able to successfully manage change within the organization, anticipating potential obstacles, and communication the changes to the team.
Authoritarian: An authoritative leader will make decisions without consulting others and expect full obedience from their team.
Transformational: A transformational leader inspires and empowers their team to achieve their full potential.
Servant: A servant leader focuses on the needs of their team and puts their team's needs ahead of their own.
Situational: A situational leader adapts their leadership style to the situation at hand.
Charismatic: A charismatic leader has a magnetic personality and can rally their team around a vision.
Laissez-Faire: A laissez-faire leader delegates responsibility to their team and allows them to work without much supervision.
Democratic: A democratic leader involves their team in decision-making and takes their opinions and suggestions into account.
Transactional: A transactional leader focuses on achieving set goals through rewards and punishments.
Verbal: This refers to spoken communication.
Nonverbal: This encompasses all communication that is not spoken, including body language, facial expressions, and tone.
Written: This refers to communication that is written down, such as emails, memos, and reports.
Visual: This refers to communication that is conveyed through images and graphics.
Digital: This encompasses all communication that takes place through digital channels, including email, social media, and messaging apps.
Interpersonal: This refers to communication between individuals, whether face-to-face or through digital channels.
Mass communication: This refers to communication that is intended to reach a wide audience through mass media channels such as TV, radio, and newspapers.
- "Specialist literature debates various viewpoints on the concept, sometimes contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to leadership, and also (within the West) North American versus European approaches."
- "Some U.S. academic environments define leadership as 'a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common and ethical task'."
- "Some have challenged the more traditional managerial views of leadership (which portray leadership as something possessed or owned by one individual due to their role or authority)."
- "...advocate the complex nature of leadership which is found at all levels of institutions, both within formal and informal roles."
- "Studies of leadership have produced theories involving (for example) traits, situational interaction, function, behavior, power, vision and values, charisma, and intelligence, among others."
- "Sometimes contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to leadership, and also (within the West) North American versus European approaches."
- "Portray leadership as something possessed or owned by one individual due to their role or authority."
- "The complex nature of leadership which is found at all levels of institutions, both within formal and informal roles."
- "Leadership as 'a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common and ethical task'."
- "Traits, situational interaction, function, behavior, power, vision and values, charisma, and intelligence, among others."
- "Contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to leadership."
- "Within the West, North American versus European approaches to leadership."
- "Enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common and ethical task."
- "The complex nature of leadership which is found at all levels of institutions, both within formal and informal roles."
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- "The power of one party (the 'leader') promotes movement/change in others (the 'followers')."
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- "Leadership as something possessed or owned by one individual due to their role or authority."