Group 3

Report on

Problems Encountered by Leaders

Leadership Skills

What is leadership?

• Ability to influence others for getting the job done through commitment of people.

1. Getting and Giving Information 2. Understanding Group Needs and Characteristics 3. Knowing and Understanding Group Resources 4. Controlling the Group 5. Counseling 6. Setting the Example 7. Representing the Group 8. Planning 9. Evaluation 10.Sharing Leadership 11.Manager of Learning

The Eleven Skills of Leadership

1. Getting and Giving Information

• Getting information (taking notes, repeating, clarifying and verifying, encourage to speak freely)

• Retrieving information (storing, retrieving)

• Giving information (use all senses whenever possible, encourage two-way flow)

2. Understanding the Needs and Characteristics of the Group

• Find what makes them tick

• Learn with the group

• Grow with the group

3. Knowing & Understanding the Resources of the Group

• Physical resources

• Skills

• Attitudes

• Background (bringing together, creating commitment to common goals)

4. Controlling the Team

• Gives direction

• Balances getting the job done and keeping the team together

• Break up destructive cliques

• Encourage greater participation

5. Counseling

• Counseling is a private talk with someone that helps the individual with a personal problem

6. Setting the Example

• Personal behavior independent of external influences

• Very important! (Walk your talk.) No example set, you are doomed to get negative results.

7. Representing the Group

• Representing the group is accurately communicating to non-group members the sum of group members’ feelings, ideas, etc., and vice-versa.

8. Planning

• Analyze

• Design

• Develop

• Implement

• Evaluate

9. Evaluation

• Evaluation is a continual process (informal or formal) of judging a situation against a standard.

• Evaluation is an attitude of continuous striving for higher goals.

• Evaluation is a process for judging an individual’s or group’s completion of a task against a standard.

9. Evaluation

• For improvement• The task and the people must be

considered• Always evaluate • Evaluate both the strong and weak points,

possible improvements, things to keep• Evaluate on how well the group is keeping

itself together and how well the group is getting the job done

10. Sharing Leadership

• Sharing leadership translates on one level into “styles” of leadership

• It identifies some of the generic roles groups have that can be distributed among all members

10. Sharing Leadership

Sharing leadership is a key function of a leader. The ability to extend one’s self, to accomplish jobs greater than one person alone can handle, is one of the key elements of our society’s success today.

11. Managing of Learning

• The emphasis is on learning, not on what one teaches

• The manager of learning helps an individual to become a more effective leader

• Four steps: guided discovery, teach/learn, application, evaluation

11. Managing of Learning

• Learning is meant to be the gaining of knowledge, the improvement of skills, or the development of attitudes in a certain area (KSA)

• Attitudes are more important than skills or knowledge, but the most difficult to acquire

Thank you !