- "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."
The ability to inspire and guide others to achieve a common goal or objective.
Leadership Styles: Different approaches to leadership, such as authoritarian, democratic, and laissez-faire, and their effectiveness in various contexts.
Organizational Culture: The beliefs, values, and norms that shape an organization's identity and how leaders can leverage them to create a high-performing team.
Communication Skills: The ability to convey information, articulate ideas, and provide feedback effectively to stakeholders from different backgrounds and perspectives.
Decision-Making: Techniques for making sound decisions based on available information, using communication, planning and foresight to minimize risks and uncertainties.
Conflict Resolution: Understanding the causes, types, and levels of conflict within organizations and using strategies to manage them efficiently.
Motivation: Understanding how to inspire, motivate, and influence individuals and groups to achieve specific goals, especially with limited resources.
Ethics and Integrity: The importance of ethical behavior, values, and principles in your relationships with stakeholders, including subordinates, superiors, and the public.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: How to recognize and respect diversity in the workplace and create an environment where everyone can participate fully.
Strategic Planning: How to set goals, develop strategies, and establish a clear vision for the organization's future.
Team Building: Strategies for building cohesive and effective teams, fostering cooperation, trust, and accountability among team members.
Change Management: How to manage change effectively by anticipating and managing resistance to change, mitigating risks, and ensuring stakeholder engagement.
Performance Management: The importance of measuring and evaluating performance to identify strengths and weaknesses, using feedback and recognition to improve productivity and morale.
Financial Management: Understanding the basics of finance, budgeting, and fiscal control of the organization.
Public Policy: Understanding the role of public policies in governance and their impact on public administration and leadership.
Public Relations and Community Engagement: How to engage and communicate with the public, build relationships, create trust, and maintain credibility.
Authoritarian Leadership: Leadership characterized by a strong central leader who makes all decisions without input from subordinates. This style is often associated with micromanagement and can lead to dissent among employees.
Democratic Leadership: This leader involves subordinates in decision-making processes and encourages creativity and innovation. This type of leadership fosters collaboration and team building.
Transformational Leadership: Leadership that focuses on inspiring and motivating employees to reach their full potential. This type of leader often fosters a culture of positivity and acceptance.
Transactional Leadership: Leadership that focuses on rewards and punishments for employee performance. This type of leadership is often effective in a crisis or high-pressure situation.
Charismatic Leadership: A leader that inspires and motivates with their personality and presence, often leading their followers to achieve greater things than they initially thought possible.
Servant Leadership: Leadership where the leader serves the needs of their followers first, with their goal being to enhance the development of their subordinates.
Laissez-faire Leadership: Leadership when the leader does not engage in active management, often resulting in a lack of leadership.
Situational Leadership: A leader that changes their leadership style based on the situation at hand, which may vary based on factors like time, culture, and individual leadership styles.
- "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."