Leadership
Week 2 Assignment
Week 2 Assignment
Rodtrice Johnson
Bethel University
Leadership
Angelo Lamar
September 4, 2014
Good leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience (Jago, 1982). Following the leadership theories and concepts guide will help you through that process. To inspire your team or workers into higher levels of teamwork, there are certain things you must be, know, and, do. These do not come naturally, but are acquired through continual work and study. Good leaders are continually working and studying to improve their leadership skills; they are not resting on their laurels. Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. In the case study “Low Five”, a co-captain on a basketball team named Paula, expresses her feelings about their new coach. Shirley, the new coach of the basketball team, was making very poor decisions regarding the plays that were made during the basketball games. Paula, the co-captain, was not the only person on the team that expressed great despair. The other players also felt that the new coach, Shirley, was not accepting the input from the team.
Shirley only wanted things to be done her way and when confronted by the team about their opinions of the plays, she defended them by saying that everyone was rejecting the possibility of change. The team tried to get her to understand that they were not being resistant to change, but was trying to show her the things that for years, had already been proven effective for the team. The players felt that they were losing games that they should have been winning, if only the new coach would not have been changing everything around. Players also felt that many of their strongest
Week 2 Assignment
Rodtrice Johnson
Bethel University
Leadership
Angelo Lamar
September 4, 2014
Good leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience (Jago, 1982). Following the leadership theories and concepts guide will help you through that process. To inspire your team or workers into higher levels of teamwork, there are certain things you must be, know, and, do. These do not come naturally, but are acquired through continual work and study. Good leaders are continually working and studying to improve their leadership skills; they are not resting on their laurels. Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. In the case study “Low Five”, a co-captain on a basketball team named Paula, expresses her feelings about their new coach. Shirley, the new coach of the basketball team, was making very poor decisions regarding the plays that were made during the basketball games. Paula, the co-captain, was not the only person on the team that expressed great despair. The other players also felt that the new coach, Shirley, was not accepting the input from the team.
Shirley only wanted things to be done her way and when confronted by the team about their opinions of the plays, she defended them by saying that everyone was rejecting the possibility of change. The team tried to get her to understand that they were not being resistant to change, but was trying to show her the things that for years, had already been proven effective for the team. The players felt that they were losing games that they should have been winning, if only the new coach would not have been changing everything around. Players also felt that many of their strongest
References: American Association of School Administrators. (1982). Challenges for school leaders. Arlington, VA: American Association of School Administrators. Bethel Leadership. (2002). Behavioral Approaches to Leadership Style.