Leadership and communication

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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.
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- "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."
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