Sharing Leadership

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This competency enables the learner to:

• Develop a concept of leadership for a group which permits different functions of leadership being shared or distributed among group members according to the situation and member's strengths.
• Gain knowledge of the forces acting on the leader and the group, and inherent in the situation which makes for appropriateness of leadership styles.
• Distinguish between situations in which certain styles of leadership are appropriate.
• Relate styles of leadership to the twin factors of getting the job done and maintaining group integrity and morale.
• Develop attitudes of using appropriate styles of leadership to fit needs of the group to meet situations and accomplish short-and long-range goals.

About Sharing Leadership

Sharing Leadership translates on one level into "styles" of leadership. Depending on the job and the group, certain ways for the leader to work with the group will be more appropriate than others. It also identifies some of the generic roles groups have that can be distributed among all members.

Sharing leadership is a key function of a leader. The ability to extend herself, to accomplish jobs greater than one person alone can handle, is one of the key elements of our society's success today. Never has a society been so productive.