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Understanding the
Characteristics of Leadership
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2.1 Leadership Characteristics
2.2
Leadership Skills
2.3
Social Intelligence and Communication
TERMS
leadership
authoritarian
leadership
transactional
leadership
DEFINITIONS
the ability to influence others to achieve
a common goal
a leadership style that uses a top-down
approach in working with members of
the group, team, or organization
a leadership style based on an exchange
of rewards for the accomplishment of
tasks or goals
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TERMS
DEFINITIONS
transformational a leadership style based on persuading
leadership
others to commit to a vision in order to
enhance performance or reach group
goals
joint leadership
a leadership style where leaders agree to
take joint control of the group
Understanding the
Characteristics of Leadership
 WHAT WOULD YOU DO ARTICLE?
 Spend the 5 minutes reading the article about
John and another 5 minutes answering the
questions?
 Class Discussion ?
2.1
Leadership Characteristics
GOALS
 Explain steps you can take to develop as
a leader.
 Identify the characteristics of a leader.
 Describe the different types of leadership
styles.
Developing as a Leader
 Leadership skills usually begin early in life.
 Becoming a leader begins with dreams,
aspirations, and determination.
 You must also have the desire and ambition
to become a leader.
Steps in the Right Direction
 Build relationships
 Learning to get along with others is a vital step in
leadership development.
 Leaders develop their ability to influence over time by
working successfully with others.
 Working as a team
 Good leaders know the need of help from others.
 Working as part of a team can improve leadership skills.
 Developing good listening skills
 Listening and caring about others will improve your
effectiveness as a leader.
Checkpoint
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Q
What are some important steps you can take
toward leadership development?
A
Some important steps toward leadership
development are building relationships,
working as a team, and developing good
listening skills.
Leadership Characteristics
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Personal integrity
Dedication
Congeniality
Optimism
Forward thinker
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Good listener
Good record keeper
Courage/risk taker
Health conscious
Personal Integrity
 Integrity is built on honesty and trust.
 You must be an honest and trustworthy
person to be an effective leader.
 Your teachers, friends, family, and
members of your community should
recognize these characteristics in you.
Dedication
 Loyalty and commitment are essential
components of dedication.
 Showing dedication to your team members
and to your goals earns you respect.
 In turn, those that you lead will develop the
same sense of dedication toward you.
Congeniality
 Leaders are friendly people who enjoy
being around others.
 Being friendly can put others at ease and
encourage them to communicate openly.
Optimism
 Optimistic people can see the best in others.
 Your optimism will create a more
productive environment.
 A positive attitude is contagious.
Forward Thinker
 By offering creative ideas, leaders can lift
their team or group to a higher level.
 Forward thinkers look for ways to improve
processes to make things run more
efficiently. They often have a vision of how
the future should be.
 All group members must share the vision in
order for it to be effective.
Good Listener
 Strengthening your listening skills will
allow you to become an admired and
effective leader.
 When listening, you should focus on the
message and take an interest in what the
other person is saying.
Good Record Keeper
 Leaders often must deal with finances.
 Work closely with your group’s treasurer
and your faculty advisor.
 Organize and participate in training to learn
basic accounting principles.
 Develop and implement checks and balances.
Courage/Risk Taker
 Risks often lead to opportunities.
 Courage is your control of a situation in
spite of your fear.
 Differentiate between good and bad risks.
Health Conscious
 Good leaders are concerned about the
mental and physical health of themselves as
well as other group members.
 You should maintain a healthy and active
lifestyle.
 This will reduce stress and increase your
performance.
Checkpoint
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Q
Name the characteristics of an effective
leader.
A
Effective leaders have integrity, dedication,
congeniality, and optimism. They are
forward thinkers, good listeners, good record
keepers, and risk takers. In addition they are
health conscious.
Types of Leadership
 Authoritarian leadership
 Transactional leadership
 Transformational leadership
 Joint leadership
Authoritarian Leadership
 Uses a top-down approach in working with
members of the group, team, or organization
 The person in charge gives direct instructions
without asking for input from group members.
 Works well in the military services and to
some extent in college athletics
 Could be used when you need to make a
quick decision
Transactional Leadership
 Based on an exchange of rewards for the
accomplishment of tasks or goals
 Requires group members to understand that
they will be rewarded for completing a task
successfully
 Requires the leader to assign tasks to the
group but allow members work in their own
way as long as tasks are completed and
goals are met
Transformational
Leadership
 Works to persuade others to commit to a
vision in order to enhance the performance
or reach the goal of the group
 Empowers others to take on leadership
roles and make decisions
 Uses a bottom-up approach
 Considers opinions of others to help solve
problems
Joint Leadership
 Often referred to as team leadership
 Style frequently used in schools and communities
 Requires leaders agree to take joint control of the
group
 Requires clear definition of each person’s role
 Advantage—Two people to help guide and
manage a group
 Disadvantage—Co-leaders may disagree on the
purpose of the group or the direction to take to
meet goals
Checkpoint
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Q
Describe the difference between a top-down
leadership approach and a bottom-up
leadership approach.
A
In a top-down approach, the leader gives
instructions to be followed without asking
for input. In a bottom-up approach, others
are encouraged to make decisions
themselves.
WORKOUT
 Complete Unit 2.1 in the Unit 2 Handout.
TERMS
motivation
DEFINITIONS
the driving force that persuades individuals to
take action
peer-mentor a person who serves as a role model and
provides motivation and encouragement to
others
accountable to accept responsibility for your actions
2.2
Leadership Skills
GOALS
 Explain the twelve-point plan for developing
leadership skills.
 Identify common mistakes made by leaders.
Developing Leadership Skills
 See yourself as a leader with the selfesteem and motivation to accept the
challenge of learning, improving, and
developing your leadership skills.
Accepting the Challenge
 Your development as a leader may not be
the same as others, and it should not be.
 By focusing on your own abilities, you will
be successful in meeting the leadership
challenge.
Twelve-point Plan for Development
of Leadership Skills
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Ethical behavior
Decision making
Teamwork
Motivation
Peer-mentoring
Visionary
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Conflict resolution
Goal setting
Emotional stability
Interpersonal relations
Communication
Time management
Ethical Behavior
 As a leader, your ability to demonstrate
ethical behavior will make you a role model
for others.
 Your actions are based on your personal
values and your belief in doing the right
thing, even when no one is watching.
 These actions may be referred to as ethical
behavior.
Decision Making
 Making choices based on information and
knowledge that you have is your decisionmaking ability.
 A good leader will carefully evaluate all
choices before making a final decision.
 You may feel more comfortable discussing
the problem with others and getting a
consensus, or an agreement, before making
a decision.
Teamwork
 Your willingness to work as part of a team
to achieve goals will attract others to follow
you.
 As you involve others in various activities,
they will accept you more as their leader.
 Your success as a leader is based on your
ability to get members of your group to
work together as one unit.
Motivation
 Leaders should inspire feelings of
excitement and positive energy in others.
 Motivation is the driving force that
persuades individuals to take action.
 Learn what motivates members of your group.
 Talk with them and involve them in setting up
a rewards system.
 When you recognize individuals for a job well
done, they will put forth their best effort.
Peer-Mentoring
 A peer-mentor is someone who serves as a
role model and provides motivation and
encouragement to others.
 You may be called upon to give advice to
some of your peers on school issues or
personal concerns.
 At other times, being a peer-mentor simply
requires you to be a good listener.
Visionary
 Your ability to communicate a vision or
idea to improve the productivity of others
shows that you are a forward thinker.
 It also demonstrates your belief in the
ability of others to carry out your vision and
reach a higher level of success.
 Your vision should be explained in such a
way that others can see it and want to
embrace it.
Conflict Resolution
 Jealousy and bitterness among members of
a group will lower their morale and
performance.
 Your role as a leader includes building a
welcoming climate where people can
express their ideas and concerns without
fear of being attacked by others.
Goal Setting
 Your personal success in setting and achieving
goals can help prepare you to lead and motivate
others to do the same.
 Your ability to set reachable goals for your group
will show that you are leading them in the right
direction.
 When setting goals, you should try to involve all
members—those who are quiet and shy as well as
those who are talkative and outgoing.
Emotional Stability
 Remain calm during tense situations.
 This demonstrates that you have the emotional
stability to move forward even when things are
not going as planned.
 Others will see that you are confident and
secure in your abilities as a leader.
 Avoid hurtful criticism.
 This will show others that you can handle
situations in a mature manner.
Interpersonal Relations
 Success as a leader depends on your ability to get
along with people.
 Your ability to demonstrate interpersonal relations
skills will show others that you value them.
 Ways to improve your interpersonal relations skills:
 Recognize members of your group for their
accomplishments
 Speak words of support and encouragement to show your
appreciation
 Be a good listener and allow others to share their ideas
Communication
 Spoken communication
 Consider joining the debate team or drama club
to develop your public speaking skills.
 Practice and your nervousness will begin to
disappear as you gain more experience.
 Written communication
 To be effective, all written communications
should contain proper grammar and correct
spelling.
Time Management
 Demonstrating time management skills will
show others that you are serious about
meeting deadlines and conducting meetings
and other activities in a timely manner.
 Planning is an important component of time
management.
 A plan gives you direction and saves you
time.
Checkpoint
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Q
Identify two leadership skills that would
improve your effectiveness as a leader in
your school.
A
Answers will vary but may include any of
the points in the twelve-point plan for
development of leadership skills.
Mistakes Made by Leaders
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Uncaring attitude
Avoidance of situations
Lack of character
Lack of vision
Showing favoritism
Failure to hold members of the group accountable
Poor communication and interpersonal skills
Checkpoint
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Q
What are the seven most common mistakes
made by leaders?
A
Uncaring attitude, avoidance of situations,
lack of character, lack of vision, showing
favoritism, not holding members
accountable, poor communication and
interpersonal skills
Motivation & Leadership
 Leadership.
 QUESTION: What is
the most important
part of leadership?
 Motivation.
 QUESTION: What are
thoughts about
motivation before this
clip and then after this
clip…
WORKOUT
 Complete Unit 2.2
 Take Inventory Personal ProjectConflict style and Recognition style
TERMS
social
intelligence
DEFINITIONS
the ability to communicate and interact with
members of your family, school, and
community
body
language
the combination of gestures, movements, and
physical mannerisms that you use to
communicate to others
putting the message into a form that is
understood by the receiver
interpretation or translation of a message by
the receiver
encoding
decoding
feedback
the receiver’s response to the sender’s message
2.3
Social Intelligence
and Communication
GOALS
 Explain the value of communication as a part
of social intelligence.
 Describe the components of communication.
What Is Social Intelligence?
 Social intelligence is a new science for
successful leadership.
 Your success as a leader will be based on
how well you get along with other people.
 Social intelligence focuses on your
communication skills—both verbal and
non-verbal—and your interaction with
members of your family, school, and
community.
Social Intelligence
 Importance of social intelligence
 Verbal language
 Non-verbal language
 Written language
 Language barrier
Checkpoint
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Q
Describe two reasons why social intelligence
is important.
A
Social intelligence is important because it
will improve your performance as a leader.
Also, people perform better in a pleasant and
accepting environment.
The Communication Process
 Sender and receiver
 Encoding the message
 Choosing a communication channel
 Decoding the message
 Feedback given by receiver
Sender and Receiver
 In the communication process, the sender is
the source of the message or information to
be transmitted to another person.
 The receiver is the person to whom the
message is being directed.
 The role of the sender is to start the
communication process and transmit a clear
and concise message to the receiver.
Encoding the Message
 Putting the message into a form that is
understood by the receiver is called
encoding.
 The form of the message may be in words,
symbols, or even pictures.
 When encoding a message, it is important
that you use language that is familiar to the
receiver.
Choosing a
Communication Channel
 A communication channel is the media
used by the sender to relay the message.
 Selecting a communication channel
depends on what needs to be communicated
to your audience.
 Keep in mind that certain channels work
better for certain messages.
Decoding the Message
 Interpretation or translation of a message by
the receiver is called decoding.
 It is a critical stage in the communication
process because the receiver’s perception of
the message may not be the same as the
sender’s intended message.
 Decoding is affected by the receiver’s
knowledge, value system, and biases.
Feedback Given by Receiver
 Feedback is the receiver’s response to the
sender’s message.
 The effectiveness of your message can be
measured by the feedback you receive.
 It enables you to determine whether the
message was interpreted correctly.
Checkpoint
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Q
Explain why an impersonal message might
require a different communication channel
than an interactive message.
A
An impersonal message requiring no
response could use a less personal channel,
such as a letter or memo, but an interactive
message is more conversational.
WORKOUT
 Complete Unit 2.3
 Unit Assessment