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Leadership Skills

Leadership Skills. Module D: Lesson 3 Grade 12 Active, Healthy Lifestyles. What Is Leadership?. Leadership is any behaviour that influences the actions and attitudes of others to achieve certain results.

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Leadership Skills

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  1. Leadership Skills Module D: Lesson 3 Grade 12 Active, Healthy Lifestyles

  2. What Is Leadership? • Leadership is any behaviour that influences the actions and attitudes of others to achieve certain results. • Leadership in itself is neither good nor bad. There are many examples of “good” and “bad” people who have been extremely effective leaders. • How Do People Become Leaders? • Qualified • Merited • Captured • Identified • Defaulted

  3. Stepping Stones for Emerging Leaders: An Activating Activity • What actions worked in favour of achieving the team’s goal? • What actions prevented the team from achieving its goal, or reduced the team’s effectiveness in achieving its goal? • How was leadership achieved? • If the team chose a leader, how was this decision made? • If the teacher assigned a leader, how did this make the other team members feel? • If no leader was initially assigned or chosen, did a leader emerge as the activity took place? If yes, how did this occur? • How did the team’s leader(s) influence the actions of its members? • How does this activity relate to what you think about leadership?

  4. Qualities of a Leader • Some form of leadership is required for a team to be effective • A leader must possess certain qualities and skills to lead effectively

  5. Leader Identification • Identify a person you regard as a great (effective) leader. • Write down the qualities/characteristics or skills/abilities youbelieve have made this person an effective leader • With a partner, talk about your leader and the attributes of this person • Selects your top five to ten qualities/characteristics or skills/abilities of an effective leader. • Share the attributes with the class • Determine the classes overall top five to ten qualities/characteristics or skills/abilities of an effective leader

  6. Leadership Styles • A leader is someone who has a goal or focus/belief and is able to convince or influence others to follow it • The following theories offer a diverse and representative view of leadership: • “Great leader” theories • Trait theories • Situational theories • Behavioural (functional) theories • Transactional theories • Transformational theories

  7. The Role of Leaders • Forming • Storming • Norming • Performing • Adjourning

  8. Class Discussion • Identify which of the situational leadership styles is most likely to be demonstrated in each of the stages of team development • Autocratic • bureaucratic • Democratic • laissez-faire

  9. What Is My Leadership Style? • RM 2–PS: Leadership Questionnaire • Possible Debriefing Questions • What is the meaning behind the markings on the Leadership Questionnaire? • Those with several check marks lean toward an authoritarian style of leadership. They take control and like things to be done their way. • Those with several asterisks tend toward a team (democratic or participative) style of leadership. • Both democratic and autocratic leadership styles have pros and cons. • What are some situations in which democratic leadership would be more effective than autocratic leadership? • What are some situations in which autocratic leadership would be more effective than democratic leadership?

  10. Survival Game: A Culminating Activity • RM 3–PS: Survival Game Questionnaire (and Interpretation of Results) • Possible Debriefing Questions • Was it hard for your team to come to a consensus? • What role did leadership play in reaching consensus? • What were the successes and challenges in reaching consensus? • What skills were required in order for your team to reach consensus? • Did you recognize the different skills and knowledge within your team? • Did you see the problems of making assumptions? • How do communication and decision-making skills affect leadership? • How might different leadership styles (e.g., autocratic, democratic, bureaucratic, laissez-faire) influence the process of a team coming to a consensus?

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