Chapter 6: Leadership and teambuilding 139A good leader provides the right climate and the opportunities for
these needs to be met on an individual basis and this is perhaps the
most difficult of a leader’s challenges.
Leaders must also inspire others. In 1987, James Kouzes and Barry
Posner identified five characteristics of what they call exemplary
leaders:
1 Leaders challenge the process. Leaders search for
opportunities.They experiment and take risks, constantly
challenging other people to exceed their own limitations.
2 Leaders inspire a shared vision. Leaders envision an
enabling future and enlist people to join in that new
direction.
3 Leaders enable others to act. Leaders strengthen others
and foster collaboration.
4 Leaders model the way. Leaders set the example for
people by their own leadership behaviour and they plan
small wins to get the process moving.
5 Leaders encourage the heart. Leaders regard and
recognize individual contributions and they celebrate
team successes.7 Organising
Good leaders are good at:- organising themselves – their own work and particularly how
they manage themselves, their time and how they delegate - organising the team – to build and maintain it to ensure that
there is good, effective team-work - organising the organisation – the structure and the
systems/processes in which, and by which, people operate.
Leaders change things and organise for the achievement of results- leading change requires considerable powers and skills of