Week 2 Learning Activities
Theme #1: There are
various types of leadership roles in an organization. They extend from the
executive leadership role to the project leader.
Each has different sets of responsibilities to the organization
and each leadership role utilizes skill sets which require influencing people
to move the business towards the vision.
This week’s theme focuses on those levels which are most
visible to the students either because they are seen from afar as being on the
top or because they seek to become involved personally: executive, managerial,
and team leaders.
We will examine the role of each and the skill sets
associated with them.
Executive Leader: Is the leader that many of our students
see from afar. They are the people at the top.
Their role is to design the vision, mission, structure and culture of
the organization. It is their ideas that provide the framework upon which the
manager builds.
The job of the executive leader is to be the social
architect. An executive leaders create the vision, mission, structure and
culture and are change agents.
Managerial Leadership: Leaders create followers through
influence while managers lead people and manage things (overlap is the skills
needed to lead people to do things)
Leading Teams: Many
of our students may have this type of leadership job already. They may be team
leaders with some leadership tools necessary.
LA 1
Using this diagram explain why levels 1-3 are leaders? Then
compare and contrast levels 4 and 5 leaders with the leadership found in levels
1-3.
Theme #2: Leading
from where you are. It doesn’t depend on where you are in an organization you
can lead in any position. The job of the executive leader is to encourage this
role for everyone through empowerment, the manager through motivation, and the
team leader or supervisor through mentoring, listening, and encouragement.
LA2
Leading from where you are means being a leader in any job.
Have you ever lead from where you are? Using your experience in the workplace
give an example of something you have done that would be considering leading
from where you are and something you would do now that would show leadership. Remember
leadership in this context means an action which is not expected of you in your
job description.
