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**Unit 2- Business Leadership - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Personality assessments are important in your workplace and in everyday life, as they help you understand where you work best, what are your strengths and weaknesses, and where you can strive to your best ability in the workplace.
- - - - What makes leadership challenging?
        
        shorter time frame
        
        expectation for success on the first time
        
        taking a long term view when short term demands are needed
      - Types of Leadership
        
        Autocratic: Tells others what to do, limits discussion of new ideas, does not foster a sense of team work. Effective when time is limited, group members lack skill and experienceIneffective when developing team work is a goal, and members have skill and knowledge.
        
        Laissez Faire: Gives little or no direction to the team, offers opinion only when asked, does not seem to be in charge. Effective when members have a high degree of skill and motivation, sense of teamwork, and a routine is established. Ineffective when there is a low sense of teamwork, little skill or knowledge, and group is looking for direction.
        
        Democratic: Involves all group members, asks before telling, and promotes all sense of teamwork. Effective when time is available, group is motivated, and members are competent on participating. Ineffective when group is unmotivated, members lack competence, and a high degree of conflict is present.
  - - - Expert Power: is derived from information or expertise.
      - Political Power: comes from the support of a group and networks of influence.
      - Coercive power: is the power to force compliance by psychological, emotional, or physical threats.
      - Referent Power: is based on identification with, imitation of, loyalty to, and charm of the leader.
      - Legitimate Power: is granted through the organizational hierarchy
      - Reward Power: is the power to give or withhold rewards.
  - - - Leaders should vary their approach based on the people they are leading, and the circumstances that surround the task at hand
    - - Used by leaders to determine whether they should make a decision alone or involve a group, and to what extent the group should be involved.
        
        Three options: authority decision, consultative decision, and group decision.
        
        Authority Decision should be used when the leader has great expertise to solve a problem, the leader is confident and and capable of acting alone, and little or no time for discussion.
        
        Participative decision: the leader lack sufficient information to solve a problem by themselves, the problem is unclear and help is needed to clarify the other situation, acceptance of the decision and commitment is necessary, and enough time is available for participation.
- - - - (3) Norming: members determine their roles in the organization.
      - (2) Storming: members develop group structure and patterns of interaction.
      - (4) Preforming: members enact their roles.
      - (1)Forming: members get acquainted, test interpersonal behaviours.