leadership development

Examples of leadership development in the following topics:

• Developing Leadership Skills

  • Leadership skills can be learned, and leadership development benefits individuals and organizations.
  • Leadership development refers to any activity that enhances the capability of an individual to assume leadership roles and responsibilities.
  • The quality and nature of the leadership development program, including its structure and content
  • Another well-known model of leadership development is used by the General Electric Corporation.
  • Discuss the varying perspectives and models that surround the leadership development field, as well as the importance of leadership development

• Leadership Styles

  • Cohen, the senior vice president for Right Management's Leadership Development Center of Excellence, describes the engaging leadership style as communicating relevant information to employees and involving them in important decisions.
  • This leadership style can help retain employees for the long term.
  • Under the autocratic leadership style, decision-making power is centralized in the leader.
  • Bass used Burns's ideas to develop his own theory of transformational leadership.
  • Different situations call for particular leadership styles.

• A Blended Approach to Leadership

  • The full-range leadership theory blends the features of transactional and transformational leadership into one comprehensive approach.
  • The full-range theory of leadership seeks to blend the best aspects of transactional and transformational leadership into one comprehensive approach.
  • Management researcher Bernard Bass developed the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), consisting of 36 items that reflect the leadership aspects associated with both approaches.
  • The MLQ is used to help leaders discover how their followers perceive their behaviors, so they can develop their leadership abilities.
  • Assess the intrinsic value of blending transactional leadership behaviors with transformational leadership behaviors

• The Trait-Theory Approach

  • Understanding the importance of these traits can help organizations select, train, and develop leaders.
  • Proximal characteristics are traits that are malleable and can be developed over time.
  • The model rests on two basic premises about leadership traits.
  • This diagram visually represents Zaccaro's theory that distal attributes (e.g., cognitive abilities, personality, values) serve as precursors for the development of proximal personal characteristics (e.g. social skills, problem-solving skills), both of which contribute to leadership.
  • Explain the relevance of the trait approach in defining and promoting useful leadership development in the workplace

• Leadership Model: University of Michigan

  • The Michigan behavioral studies are an important link in the ongoing development of behavioral theory in a leadership framework.
  • The recognition of leaders and the development of leadership theory have evolved over centuries.
  • This theoretical evolution has progressed over time, from identifying individual personalities or characteristics to formal studies related to what constitutes leadership and why leadership is or is not successful.
  • Leadership research continues as scholars observe, identify, and promote the emergence of new leadership styles and behaviors in the 21st century.
  • Discuss the Michigan Leadership Studies generated in the 1950s and 1960s in the broader context of behavioral approaches to leadership

• Shared Leadership

  • Shared leadership means that leadership responsibilities are distributed within a team and that members influence each other.
  • Unlike traditional notions of leadership that focus on the actions of an individual, shared leadership refers to responsibilities shared by members of a group.
  • Shared leadership can involve all team members simultaneously or distribute leadership responsibilities sequentially over the group's duration.
  • Leadership roles may be assigned based on expertise and experience.
  • An external coach can provide guidance and advice to the team and also help individuals develop their leadership skills.

• Four Theories of Leadership

  • Theories of effective leadership include the trait, contingency, behavioral, and full-range theories.
  • For a number of years, researchers have examined leadership to discover how successful leaders are created.
  • Fiedler's contingency model of leadership focuses on the interaction of leadership style and the situation (later called situational control).
  • They evaluated what successful leaders did, developed a taxonomy of actions, and identified broad patterns that indicated different leadership styles.
  • The full-range theory of leadership is a component of transformational leadership, which enhances motivation and morale by connecting the employee's sense of identity to a project and the collective identity of the organization.

• Leadership Traits

  • These models rests on two basic premises about leadership traits.
  • First, leadership emerges from the combined influence of multiple traits, as opposed to coming from various independent traits.
  • The second premise suggests that leadership traits differ in their proximal (direct) influence on leadership.
  • In this multistage model, certain distal or remote attributes (such as personal attributes, cognitive abilities, and motives/values) serve as precursors for the development of personal characteristics that more directly shape a leader.
  • Summarize the key characteristics and traits that are predictive of strong leadership capacity

• Leadership Model: The Ohio State University

  • Leadership is a field of study (and core ability) which focuses on the ability of an individual or group to "lead" or guide other teams, people or even entire organizations. the evolution of the field of leadership is quite extensive, ranging from the following perspectives:
  • Each of these schools of thought are facets of what modern leadership theories try to take into account today, as varying perspectives on leadership are useful to keep in mind in the complex, global world of organizations.
  • The basic premise was that certain characteristics of individuals was the ideal indicator of success in a leadership role.
  • This is to say that, for example, extroverted individuals with a highly developed sense of empathy, confidence and decisiveness would make good leaders.
  • The Ohio State Leadership Studies touch upon this concept.

• The GLOBE Project

  • The GLOBE Research Project is an international group of social scientists and management scholars who study cross-cultural leadership.
  • Under the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Research Project, an international group of social scientists and management scholars studied cross-cultural leadership.
  • They used qualitative methods to assist their development of quantitative instruments.
  • Known as the six GLOBE dimensions of culturally endorsed implicit leadership, these leadership dimensions include:
  • Logo for the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Project.