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LEADER SHIP:
A Definition of Leadership
A traditional definition of leadership: Leadership is an interpersonal influence directed toward the

achievement of a goal or goals.
Three important parts of this definition are the terms interpersonal, influence, and goal.
· Interpersonal means between persons. Thus, a leader has more than one person (group) to lead.
· Influence is the power to affect others.
· Goal is the end one strives to attain.
Basically, this traditional definition of leadership says that a leader influences more than one person
toward a goal.
LEADERSHIP is a dynamic relationship based on mutual influence and common purpose between
leaders and collaborators in which both are moved to higher levels of motivation and moral
development as they affect real, intended change .
LEADERSHIP ROLES
The leadership roles listed below help a group accomplish its objectives by creating a climate
that maintains group harmony and cohesiveness. These roles focus on the team’s relationships
between its members and how the team feels about itself as a group.
Encouraging – Being friendly, responding to and building on suggestions made by others,
showing acceptance and appreciation of others and different ideas .
Gate Keeping – Giving a quiet, less assertive or new person opportunities to join discussions.
Setting Standards – Work with the group to set standards and guidelines for how the team
conducts business and helping the group adhere to the standards it creates.
Diagnosing Difficulties – Providing the lead in problem solving, raising issues and addressing
problems that impede the team’s process and progress .
Expressing Personal and Group Feelings – Sets an example for constructive, honest
communication.
Conflict Management – Helping those with different opinions understand others’ viewpoints and
facilitating solutions acceptable to everyone.
Evaluating – Creating an opportunity for people to express their feelings and reactions to the
workings of the group.
Releaving tension - Bringing tense issues out in the open, providing the bigger picture or context to
an issue or using humor.
TASK ROLES
Task roles and functions focus on what the group is supposed to be doing to ensure that it carries
out and completes its goals. Task role behaviors include:
Initiating Activity – Getting a task started, initiating a process to ensure that tasks are
accomplished
Establishing goals – Working with the group to set realistic and achievable goals so that team
members share a common understanding of the work they will be doing
Giving Direction – Reminding the team of its goals, helping the team develop a vision or refocusing
activities when necessary
Giving and Seeking Information – Making sure the team has the information it needs to complete its
tasks and soliciting information from the team to make sure people feel included, they
understand what’s going on and to leverage their best thinking
Setting Time Limits – Work with the team to set up appropriate timelines for task
accomplishment as well as meetings, agenda items, topic discussions, etc.
Summarizing – Periodically summarize discussions, task and team progress or information shared.
Leadership Styles:
AUTOCRATIC
An autocratic leader dictates tasks and timelines to a group and imparts a strong focus on an objective.
At best, the autocratic leader leads a team to success under tight timelines and can be especially
functional for a team with inexperienced and/or unskilled members. At worst, the autocratic leader
denies input from all others and can dominate both task strategy and credit for success.
DEMOCRATIC
The democratic leader involves team members in planning and decision-making, often through a
formal information gathering and/or voting process. At best the democratic leader encourages ideas
and input from all team members and motivates teams toward success. At worst, the democratic
leader can leave out input from less aggressive team members and override feedback from members
once a decision is made. Democratic leaders should be skilled in conflict resolution techniques to
illicit the optimum performance of a team.
EVALUATIVE
An evaluative leader focuses on information gathering and research from team members and external
sources in order to reach the best decision with a rationale to support it. At best, the evaluative leader
seeks expertise from within their team to form decisions and shares an appreciation for inquiry and
competence with the team. At worst, evaluative leaders may disregard some members’ input.
Evaluative leadership requires flexible and open cooperation to be effective.
“LAISSEZ-FAIRE”
A “Laissez-Faire” leader gives little or no direction while providing feedback when prompted by team
members. At best, the laissez-faire leader promotes an acute sense of competence and expertise in
team members and allows others to rise to their performance potential. At worst, this style can lack
accountability for team failures and not adequately coach members to success who may be
uncomfortable in a self-directed environment by appearing to not care or be too busy to properly lead.
COLLABORATIVE
The collaborative leader uses consensus building and other group process to arrive at mutually
beneficial decisions to maintain team motivation and buy-in. At best, participative and collaborative
leaders are viewed as endeared colleagues by their team and maintain individual team member’s
sense of value and contribution. At worst, participative leadership can botch the consensus process
and fail to manage conflict among the group, thereby failing to reach a decision or a task objective.
Collaborative leadership requires the ability to unite groups of interested and capable people around
a common need or vision and to facilitate the formulation of solutions and actions as determined by
the group.
Several behaviors are important to collaborative leadership. These include:
• Helping the group to create a shared vision, both for the outcome of their work and the
process of their work.
• Establishing an open group process.
• Facilitating the group process.
When done effectively, the collaborative leadership approach creates greater buy-in from all group
members, generates the initiative of members to follow-through with implementation steps, and taps
into additional resources.
By using Democratic leadership i could able to motivate my party men to work as a team and led
them to the success.

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To be a leader for campaigning for a political party understating the leadership and its roles and the

different variant is become very imperable.

A traditional definition of leadership: Leadership is an interpersonal influence directed toward the

Several behaviors are important to collaborative leadership. These include:

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