MMM132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Skills, Information Overload, Charismatic Authority
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Define leader and leadership and its associated traits: a leader is someone who can influence others and who has managerial authority. Leadership is what leaders do: leading and influencing a group to achieve goals. Ma(cid:374)age(cid:373)e(cid:374)t is doi(cid:374)g the thi(cid:374)gs right, leadership is doi(cid:374)g the right thi(cid:374)gs . To be a leader you must: invest in your employees success. Open and timely communication is critical share the credit for success with employees encourage greatness in each person. Be available to the team give clear direction. Des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)e (cid:373)oder(cid:374) (cid:448)ie(cid:449)s of leadership a(cid:374)d the issues fa(cid:272)i(cid:374)g today"s leaders: Charismatic leaders have: a vision, articulate the vision well, take risks to achieve that vision, se(cid:374)siti(cid:448)ity to the e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal co(cid:374)strai(cid:374)ts of follo(cid:449)ers(cid:859) (cid:374)eeds, behave out of the ordinary, visionary leadership. The vision should energise employees to get involved and they can achieve great leaps into the future for the enterprise. Team leader roles: coaches, liaisons with external constituents, conflict managers, trouble-shooters.