BASIC LEADERSHIP

GROUP 2
Defining Leader and Leadership

 An adage state that leaders are not born but

they are developed. This topic covers the basic
theories and principles of leadership that you
need to learn to prepare you as good leaders in
the future.
Microsoft Encarta 2006 has defined
leader in three key roles:
1. AS A GUIDE

- Leader assumes the role as the director,

organizer, mentor, guru, and adviser.
2. AS A FRONTRUNNER

- Leader can be a spearhead, leading light,

trailblazer, and groundbreaker.
3. AS A HEAD

- He or she can be called chief, manager, superior,

principal, boss, and supervisor.
Leadership is defined as a process of giving
control, guidance, headship, direction, and
governance. It is synonymous with the basic
principle of management.
Ten Principle of Servant Leadership
1. Listening
- Seeks to identify the will of a group and
helps clarify that will. The servant leader seeks
to listen receptively to what is being said.
2. Empathy
- Strives to understand and empathize with
others. People need to be accepted and
recognized for their special and unique spirits.
3. Healing
- Becomes one of the greatest strengths of
servant leadership, the potential for healing
one’s self and another whereby many people
have broken spirits and have suffered from a
variety of emotional hurts.
4. Awareness
- Aids the servant leader in understanding
issues that involve ethics and values and view
most situations from a more integrated and
holistic position.
5. Persuation
- Reminds servant leaders to give primary
reliance on persuation rather than positional
authority in making decisions within an
organization.
6. Conceptualization

- Seeks to nurture the servant leader’s ability

to “dream great dreams”. The ability to look at a
problem (or an organization) fronts a
conceptualizing perspective means that ones
must think beyond day-to-day realities with
sensible and functional ideas.
7. Foresight
- Enables the servant leader to understand
the lessons and events from the past, the
realities and phenomena of the present, and the
likely impact of a decision for the future.
8. Stewardship
- Prioritizes the needs of others and
emphasizes the use if openness and persuasion
rather than control.
9. Commitment to the Growth of
People
- Makes servant leaders believe that people
have an essential values beyond their concrete
contributions as workers thereby the servant
leader is deeply committed to the growth of
each individial.
10. Building Community
- Suggests that true community can be
createdamong those who work in businesses
and other institutions.
Leadership Behaviors
There is no specific leadership behavior that
would guarantee efficiency and effectiveness of
the operation/mission of a certain group or
organization.
Authorian Leadership

- Leads men by means of the rank position. A

self-centered type of leadership where the leader
believes he or she is the only one capable of
directing the subordinates.
Paternalistic Leadership

- Leads men by always setting an example. This

type of a leader manifests an example of a
father, who seems to be always after the welfare
of his children.
Participative Leadership

- Makes the men participate actively in the activity

or task in the organization but reserves the right
to make final decisions on the critical matters.
Laisse-Faire Leadership

- Leaves decisions making to the subordinates.

The leader will give assignment, and then it is up
for the subordinates to accomplish the task in
whatever manner they can.
1. The Contributing Leader is focused
on providing reliable information to the
team.
2. The Collaborating Leader is focused
on fulfilling the overall goals and mission
of the team.
3. The Communicating Leader is
focused on the processes by which the
team attains its goals.
4. The Challenging Leader is focused on
the enhancing team performance
through “gadfly” questions and
comments.
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