Leadership is not as easy as some people make it seem. Some have what it takes and others struggle to be that great leader. Leadership is a learned behavior people are not born a leader. When a leader is aggressive and adamant about doing things their way, the team is likely to become disgruntle. This is exactly what happened in the Low Five.
While reading this story it was evident that Shirley had no idea what leadership is or the concept of a leader. Shirley portrayed an autocratic leadership style. She had to have complete control over the team. The team was not allowed to express their idea or interest. They could not question any of Shirley’s ways for doing things. Shirley was always negative, and every decision was decided without considering
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This makes sense considering gathering everyone together for strategy meetings can be a time consuming event. When changes were implemented, the participative leadership style would be the best one, because it would allow the team to accept the change easily because they were allowed to play an important role in the process.
Participative leadership is not limited to creating a suggestion box. In order for it to work in this case, effectively, Shirley had to be willing to relinquish some control to team. While this does require a great deal of trust, the rewards can be immense.
There is no doubt that Shirley viewed this situation as nothing more than rebellion from the team. She felt as though with her being new to the team they did not want to comply or accept her as their new coach. It is possible that she also looked at the situation as her coming in as a new buddy so to speak she had to play hard core for them to listen to her. Which in fact what should have been done was to watch them play and then determine on what course of action to take. Unfortunately Shirley could not see anything wrong with her style of leadership. She felt that she was the best coach ever, especially when she had a successful year with the soccer team. And not only did the soccer team loved her and had no compliant about her or her coaching style. Some of the soccer team members were on the basketball team and they spoke highly of her and her
The Groups Dynamics of a team can be effected if the category of leadership is not in place. Leadership means “the activity of leading a group of people or an organization or the ability to do this.” In order to be a good leader you must have a strong value that you can give to your team. A good leader must have strong values to pass on to their team. At the top of the teams hierarchy is a leader, so that the leader can put input towards everything the team does, so that the team would be successful because the leader controls and guides the team.
These leaders are very trusting of there members abilities and will let the team get on with the task at hand, They give very little input with the day to day running of the team.
I would expect that every person has experienced a time when they were part of a team with a good and bad leader. In business there are many times when the wrong leadership styles are chosen and have a negative effect on the end results. Throughout history many scholars have tried to understand and improve the art of leadership. They have given us theories, practices, suggestions and models to follow so that we too can reach the goal of the perfect leader. Today’s managers are influenced by many of these ideas but also by past experience, both good and bad, and by how the dynamic of the team that they are leading is built upon. These experiences and observations directly impact the leadership style and many times the end result of the tasks being performed. If a leader has the understanding of what his/her group wants, then they are better suited to make the right leadership and communication decisions, so as not to have a negative effect on the team or outcome.
As a potential team leader it is possible that I may adopt more of an authoritative style especially when implementing working practices and achieving goals and objectives. Although this style can lower staff morale in the short term it has been proven within our business to gain long term results.
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Shirley also showed signs of a task-orientated leader. Apparently, Shirley believed that she would get results by keeping the team busy running drills and closely monitoring them from the bleachers (Cohen, 2000). “Structured, task-oriented leaders, believe that they get results by keeping people constantly busy, closely monitoring employee actions, ignoring their personal issues and emotions, and urging them to produce at ever-higher levels” (Bethel University, 2011). Task-oriented leaders keep their people busy and they do not take the time to get involved with any individual issues. Evidently, consideration was not in Shirley’s vocabulary, she gave the
During any type of team game there has to be some form of leadership. Whether that be from a captain, coach, or just more experienced players on that team. Nevertheless members of the team have to decide if they are a leader or follower. Personally being on a soccer team since a very early age I have come across what I believe to good and bad leadership from these figures on my teams.
Leadership has come a long way with earlier studies of trait and behavioral approaches. Since these were highly directive and non-supportive types of leaders, their main objective was to get the job done within the nine to five work day and go home. Although, this was an effective style back in the early 1900s, a lot has changed in terms of the business setting and functionality that many employees were operating back in the early 1900s. Many of the businesses back in the early 1900s consisted of factories, locally run family businesses that leaned towards a bureaucratic organizational system that suited that kind of leadership style. One of the major outcomes from this era was a lack of relationships and high standards of the work environment towards their employees. Overtime, businesses with help of extensive research till this day realized that in order to have better performance from their employees which could lead to increased profits, they must change how they operate within the organization and deal with their employees. Employees started to strive for more interpersonal style leadership behaviors and improved work settings to thrive and develop as an employee within the organization. Theories such as: LMX, Path-Goal, Transformational, Charismatic, and Servant Leadership were created to help understand and develop leaders for the benefit of their subordinates. These leadership styles are all good in their own way, yet I believe authentic leadership is ultimately
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I believe I follow this transformational leadership style because I am always trying to motivate and inspire the officers and employees under my command by maintaining a positive attitude towards their job, our agency and the citizens we serve. In these difficult times of policing this is not always an easy task but I feel that if I maintain and exhibit this positive attitude, the officers and employees I lead will follow my example which will benefit our agency and community. Additionally, I
This paper is a critique of preceptor leadership methods. I will describe my current preceptor’s leadership style, giving an example of an observed valuable leadership strategy and why I found it to be successful. Shadowed by an example of an observed unsuccessful leadership strategy, how I responded, and a recommended strategy for the situation described. Ending with the type of leader I aspire to be in the future and my final thought regarding leadership.
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