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Leaders and Leadership

The document defines leadership and a leader. Leadership is the ability to influence others towards desired goals through community affairs and solidarity. A leader helps facilitate communities to accomplish goals by making decisions and directing activities. Key traits of good leaders are that they inspire values, ensure learning matters, and help people feel empowered and a sense of unity. The document also outlines virtues that are foundations of leadership like prudence, justice, and fortitude. It describes leadership styles from authoritarian to enabling and lists characteristics of a leader such as taking risks, having integrity, and inspiring commitment.
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Leaders and Leadership

The document defines leadership and a leader. Leadership is the ability to influence others towards desired goals through community affairs and solidarity. A leader helps facilitate communities to accomplish goals by making decisions and directing activities. Key traits of good leaders are that they inspire values, ensure learning matters, and help people feel empowered and a sense of unity. The document also outlines virtues that are foundations of leadership like prudence, justice, and fortitude. It describes leadership styles from authoritarian to enabling and lists characteristics of a leader such as taking risks, having integrity, and inspiring commitment.
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LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP

Group 8
TEAM UP
TEAM
UP
TEAM UP
Thank
You
Leader & Leadership
Defined:
Leadership

Leader

Leader has followers


Leadership

is the art of influencing people to


get the necessary support and
cooperation in community affairs to
maintain solidarity among people.
It is the ability to influence others
towards desired goals. It also means
“doing the right thing”.
Leader
is the one who helps/facilitate communities
of people take risks and envision a better
future ahead along a path to accomplish
their goal. Leaders are necessary to make
decisions, to direct community activities
and to speak for the community both in
relation to its internal organization and its
outside relationships.
Leader has followers

As Peter Drucker points out, a leader is


someone who has followers. Even poor
leaders have followers, but usually not
for long. That’s because the goal of
leadership is to get results.
Virtues as Foundation of Leader
Virtues is defined as conformity to a standard of right, morality. It is a beneficial quality or power of a
thing and a commendable quality/trait or habit.

The following virtues are considered the foundation of leadership:

Prudence Justice Fortitude Temperance Industry

Loyalty Responsibility Cheerfulness Generosity Magnanimity


Trait of Leadership

True Leadership is the art of changing a group from what it is onto what it out to be.

Leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an


emergency

The climax of leadership is to know when to do what.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other

Leadership is learning to give whether you get anything or not! If you ever give
something to get something, you’re not giving in the true sense of the word,
you’re trading
Trait of Leadership
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness,
and he who is a leader must always act alone. And
acting alone, accept everything alone

Leadership is the ability to handle uncertainty

What is “it”? The aspect of leadership concerned with


outward appearance. Looking, dressing and talking like a
leader

Leadership has nothing to do with ordering people


around or directing them every move.
Qualities of a Good Leader
Good leaders enable people to feel and become empowered

Good leaders inspire values of caring. In such a caring community,


each person has a meaning

Good pleaders ensure that learning and competence matter

Good leader, particularly those in administration, create an


atmosphere where work is stimulating, challenging and fun
Qualities of a Good Leader
Good leaders help people feel a sense of unit

Good leaders help members develop a sense of security and


trust in the leader but also in one another

A good leader displays reliability and has integrity

The best leaders use thinking to help members develop a set of


intentions, outcomes, goals and directions
1
Characteristics of a Leader
1
Have the will to lead rather than Take prudent risk
manage.
Are honest with themselves
Maintain high morale among
their people;

Work to instil values in


Inspire commitment and their people
teamwork

Orient themselves toward the


Display, at times energy, passion customer
and enthusiasm
Take a long term perspective
Are focused and able to focus
those they lead;
2
Characteristics of a Leader
Carry on despite setback Ensure people have resources to do the
job;

2 Know their field and job


and great depth; Believe in themselves and their people

Invite input Initiate change rather than react to it.

Tolerate mistake Take responsibility

Aren’t afraid to work side by side with


Set standards and object good, ambitious people;

Remain calm under fire Envision a better future;


3
Characteristics of a Leader
Don’t blame others; Tolerate, if not invite, dissent;

Have a “buck stops here” attitude; Believe they can affect the world for the
better;
Want to win;
See opportunity in challenges;

3 Are curious and flexible;

Test assumptions constantly;


Make instinctive decisions based on
experience;

Don’t over control; Take time to teach people their point


of view.
Gives subordinates leeway to act;
Characteristics of a Leader
(taken from the Agile Manager’s
Guide to Leadership by W. Wadsworth)

Even if leaders have no common traits, they share


characteristics that, in total, define their work.
Leadership Styles
AUTHORITARIAN LEADERSHIP (Survival)

Leader makes decision and announces it.

Leader presents decision but “Sells it to members”

Leader present decision & invited question of


clarification
Leadership Styles
CONSULTATIVE LEADERSHIP (Security)

Leader presents tentative decision subject to change

Leader present situation, gets input, make decision

Leader calls on members to make decision, but holds on


veto
Leadership Styles
ENABLING LEADERSHIP (Participation)

The leader defines limits, calls on members to


make decision

Leader calls on members to identify limits,


explore situation, make decision
Activity 4
1. From the List of Virtues considered as foundation of leadership, choose at least five (5) virtues
that will be considered commendable quality/traits that will describe your habits

2. From the traits of leadership on page 46, select the qualities of a good leader that will
justify yourself as traits of leadership.

3. Which of the characteristics listed on page 37 will fit to you as leader of the community.
Consider only 2 traits

4. Which of the leadership style will you consider effective. Explain


Prudence
The habit which enables
man to direct his actions
to human life’s goals of
knowing the right thing to
do and apply it.
Justice
the habit of giving each
one his due with constant
and perpetual will; gives
stability which man needs
to work without fear and
anxiety in search for
happiness.
Fortitude
the habit of overcoming
the difficulties and
pressure of life in the
pursuit of good.
Temperance
The habit of bringing
the desires and
natural inclination of
man under the
control of reason.
Industry
the habit of
working hard and
working under
pressure.
Loyalty
the habit of remaining
true to your friends
and to your principles
(goals) insure of
difficulties.
Responsibility
the habit of being
accountable for one’s
actions, duties, and
obligations; readiness to
answer to the
consequences of our
actions.
Cheerfulness
the habit of being
optimistic, positive,
and always seeing
the bright side of
things.
Generosity
the habit of sharing the
good that one has with
other people; thinking
first of the people around
him and looking for ways
he can help and serve
them.
Magnanimity
the habit of having great
ideas and ambitions of doing
good; being concerned with
doing great deeds of service
to others by devoting his life
to serve his country or to
help people

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