Leadership and Leadership Styles
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This session will look at understanding leadership and explore different leadership styles. The following key learning points will be covered:
- The qualities of leadership
- The leader – roles and responsibilities
- Differences and similarities between leadership and management, and the need for each of them
- Range of at least three leadership models (such as trait, contingency, situational, distributive, servant oblique leader, transactional/transformational) and their significance for task performance, culture and relationships
- Leadership behaviours and the sources of power
- Identification, development and appropriate choice of personal leadership styles and behaviours
- The role of trust and respect in effective team leadership
- Supervised practice or simulation to develop the ability to apply knowledge and skills