This document discusses leadership and team building. It defines leadership as influencing others towards goals and outlines key leadership factors like understanding followers, communication, and adapting to situations. It describes three common leadership styles: autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire. Successful leaders need skills like drive, motivation, and emotional intelligence. Good teams progress through forming, storming, norming, and performing stages to work cooperatively towards common goals. Characteristics of effective team leaders include building trust, empowering members, and encouraging excellence.
2. WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?
“The action of leading a group of people or an organization, or
the ability to do this.” (Oxford dictionary)
“The process of influencing the activities of an organized group
in its efforts toward goal setting and goal achievement”
(Stogdill, 1950)
4. THE WORLD’S MOST ADMIRED LEADERS
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Winston Churchill
3. Martin Luther King Jr.
4. Nelson Mandela
5. Albert Einstein
6. Abraham Lincoln
7. Mother Teresa
8. Stephen Hawking
9. Bill Gates
10. Oprah Winfrey
5. FACTORS IN LEADERSHIP
1. Follower
- Must know his followers
2. Leader
- Know yourself
3. Communication
- Two-way
4. Situation
- Adapt to the situation
6. TYPES OF LEADERSHIP “STYLE”
• Autocratic
- Leader makes
decisions without
reference to anyone
else.
7. TYPES OF LEADERSHIP “STYLE”
• Democratic
- Encourages
decision making
from different
perspectives
8. TYPES OF LEADERSHIP “STYLE”
• Laissez Faire
- group
members expected to
solve on their own.
9. WHAT SKILLS DO LEADERS NEED?
Leadership
Skills
Drive
Motivation
Self-
confidence
Intelligence
Knowledge
Emotional
Intelligence
10. THE FIVE P’S OF LEADERSHIP
• Pay attention to what’s important
• Praise what you want to continue
• Punish what you want to stop
• Pay for the results you want
• Promote those people who deliver those results
12. TEAM BUILDING
A “team” is defined as a group of people who collaborate or work together
toward a common goal.
T – Together
E – Empowering each other to
A – Achieve
M - More
13. WHY TEAMS?
• Several people’s skills and
knowledge together, in-turn
gives better result
• Sustain the enthusiasm and
lend support needed to
complete the task.
14. STAGES IN TEAM BUILDING
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
15. STAGE 1: FORMING
• Define team
• Determine individual roles
• Develop trust and communication
• Develop norms
• Define problem and strategy
• Identify information needed
16. STAGE 2: STORMING
• Separate problem issues from people
issues
• Be soft on people, hard on problem
• Look for underlying needs, goals of each
party rather than specific solutions
• Clarify the core issues
• Listen carefully to each person’s point of
view
17. STAGE 3: NORMING
• Competitive relationships
become more cooperative
• Willingness to confront issues
and solve problems
• Sense of team spirit
• Constructive feedback
18. STAGE 4: PERFORMING
• Gained insight into personal and team processes
• Better understanding of each other’s strengths and
weaknesses
• The ability to resolve differences
19. CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD TEAM
LEADER
• Build trust
• Develops common commitment
• Train members to empowerment
• Provide full information to team
• Know all team members
• Develop team spirit
• Encourage members to excel
• Create an enthusiastic environment
• Shares success with members
20. A FULLY FUNCTIONING TEAM CAN…
• Work together successfully
• Solve problems and reach decisions in a way that incorporates individual
input
• Reach decisions through consensus
• Can adapt to change
• Achieve or exceed desired results