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Leadership

Leadership

Leadership has been described as "a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task"

Significant relationships exist between leadership and such individual traits as:

intelligence[9]
adjustment[9]
extraversion[9]
conscientiousness[10][11][12]
openness to experience[11][13]
general self-efficacy[14][15]

The members must have the ability to act together toward a common goal.

Ten characteristics of well-functioning teams:

Purpose: Members proudly share a sense of why the team exists and are invested in accomplishing its mission and goals.

Priorities: Members know what needs to ...

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set and seen as standards for every one in the groups.

Effectiveness: Members find team meetings efficient and productive and look forward to this time together.

Success: Members know clearly when the team has met with success and share in this equally and proudly.

Training: Opportunities for feedback and updating skills are provided and taken advantage of by team members.

[edit]Self-leadership

Self-leadership is a process that occurs within an individual, rather than an external act. It is an expression of who we are as people.[75]

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership: What it takes?

We constantly hear people talking about Leadership these days; great politicians, soldiers, explorers, sportsmen (and women), but what does it take to be a leader? Does it mean that they are the best technically at what they do? I suppose sometimes this is true. Does it mean `being in charge'? Well sometimes this is ...

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Added: 4/7/2013 08:36:30 AM
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