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Leadership & Navigation Competency - Coggle Diagram
Leadership & Navigation Competency
Navigating the Organization
Influencing
Motivation Theories
Leadership
The Role of the Leader
General
Functions of management:
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
leadership style affects:
Employees’ ability to make decisions that affect their work.
Employees’ sense of responsibility to the organization or team.
The standards employees seek to meet or exceed.
Employees’ belief that they will be rewarded for their work.
An understood mission and shared values.
A feeling of commitment to a shared goal.
Approaches to Leading
Coercive leadership
: Imposes a vision or solution and demands that the team follow this directive.
:red_cross: can damage employees’ sense of ownership in their work and motivation.
:check: during crises when immediate and clear action is required
Authoritative leadership
: Proposes a bold vision or solution and invites the team to join this challenge.
:check: No clear path forward. Proposal is compelling and captures the team’s imagination.
Team members have a clear goal and understand their roles in the effort. They are encouraged to contribute their own ideas and take risks.
:red_cross: Ineffective when the leader lacks real expertise
Affiliative leadership
: Creates strong relationships with the team, encouraging feedback. The team members are motivated by loyalty.
:red_cross: Ineffective when used alone. For example, opportunities to correct or improve performance may not be taken because the affiliative leader fears damaging a relationship.
:check: Effective all times but especially when a leader has inherited a dysfunctional and dispirited team that needs to be transformed. Leader must have strong relationship-building and management skills.
Democratic leadership
: The leader invites followers to collaborate and commits to acting by consensus.
:check: Leader does not have a clear vision or anticipates strong resistance to a change.
Team members must be competent; leaders must have strong communication skills.
:red_cross: Time is short, since building consensus takes time and multiple meetings.
Pacesetting leadership
: The leader sets a model for high performance standards and challenges followers to meet these expectations.
:check: teams are composed of highly competent and internally motivated employees
Universal Characteristics of Leaders
Leadership Theories