The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership

Chapter 6: Leadership and teambuilding 153

Summary and six-month follow up test

Summary

Leadership centres on:

• the leader – qualities of personality and character


• the situation – partly constant, partly varying


• the team – the followers: their needs and values


• the overlapping needs of the Task, Team and Individual


• leadership functions can be summarised as:
  
  
  • defining the task
  
  
  • planning
  
  
  • briefing
  
  
  • controlling
  
  
  • evaluating
  
  
  • motivating
  
  
  • organising
  
  
  • providing an example
  
  
  
  

Teambuilding centres on:

• achieving the task


• building and maintaining the team


• developing the individual.