This document provides information on various aspects of leadership including definitions, styles, skills, and responsibilities. It defines leadership as a process of social influence that maximizes others' efforts to achieve goals. Some key points are:
- Leadership requires influencing followers through communication to attain goals. Effective leadership listens to others, expects the best, achieves goals, is determined, provides encouragement, and respects people.
- Styles include democratic, autocratic, laissez-faire, strategic, transformational, transactional, and coach-style. Skills include integrity, communication, self-awareness, influence, empathy and courage. Responsibilities involve formulating strategies, creating vision, training others, and resolving problems.