The concept I decided to review this week was the issue of Effective Leadership contained in the group communication text on page 36.
Effective leadership is often an essential skill for any college student to have, as many will end up in a leadership role sometime throughout their careers. The text outlines three important factors of effective leadership: Bringing about desirable outcomes, enhancing credibility with the group, and motivating participation in group members.
An effective leader makes good use of these three points, while a lesser leader might fail to use one or more of these factors. This type of leadership often shows up in our everyday lives, including my own. Starting two weeks ago my boss noticed my coworkers and I were not working up to our potential, so in order to improve our performance he first brought us all in and did the job himself to demonstrate how to contact clients, establishing credibility. After this my performance improved significantly and I was receiving calls almost every day from my boss congratulating me, while at the same time this boss was making calls to my coworkers suggesting that they make use of some of my techniques, this is a great use of group motivation. After a week every employee had significantly increased their output, making a desirable outcome for my boss.
I really enjoyed your post and saw that you blogged about effective leadership too! I totally agree that effective leadership is very important to have group success. Without an effective leader, the team tends to work less than they need too. I loved your example about how your boss displayed leadership. A similar situation happened at my work as well. My manager also displayed how we should be working by hitting a huge sale with a client. Once I saw that he was able to hit a good sale, I wanted to work just as hard to show him that I could make a big sale just as he did.
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