Maximising your leadership capacity
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Leadership capacity encompasses a combination of attitudes, skills, and integrity, facilitating effective leadership when opportunities arise. Various leadership styles, such as transformational and transactional, illustrate the diverse approaches leaders can take. The document emphasizes the role of action in leadership, highlighting the importance of decision-making, creating a supportive atmosphere, and adapting to changing environments.
Maximising your leadership capacity
- 1. Leadership Capacity • What do we mean by ‘leadership capacity’? Leadership capacity comprises attitudes, skills behaviours, personal maturity, a degree of integrity, a certain drive for achievement all working in combination to exercise leadership given the opportunity to do so.
- 2. Leadership theories & Styles • Behavioural • Relational • Situational • Trait Great man • Autocratic • Democratic • Transformational • Transactional • Servant • Laissez-faire • Facilitative
- 4. Leadership theories & Styles • Behavioural • Relational • Situational • Trait Great man • Autocratic • Democratic • Transformational • Transactional • Servant • Laissez-faire • Facilitative
- 5. Leadership as Action • leadership emerges when someone does something that makes an impact • capturing and cultivating certain actions • Shift from leadership as a function of personhood, to the role of the leader as a function of action.
- 6. Leadership model • Noticing • Deciding • Courage to act • Action
- 7. Domains • Meaning: how can the leader make sense and clarity out of multiple messages and priorities? • Value: how can the leader value the uniqueness and potential of those around them, and create an atmosphere of positive engagement and trust? • Structure: how can the leader create security, structure and order in a changing and confusing environment?
- 8. Modes • Directive: the leader makes decisions on behalf of the group • Co-operative: the leader and group work together to make decisions • Autonomous: the leader and group are autonomous and the group makes its own decisions, resourced or advised by the leader
- 9. Domains and Modes Attention – which needs my attention now? Actions – what are you going to do next? Questions Directive Cooperative Autonomous Meaning Do I/we know what the trustees want? I We You Value Do we have positive relationships? Structure Do we meet often enough?