Getting and Giving the
Information is probably important competency required of the leaders. If you
cannot communicate effectively, then none other leadership skill will do
compensate for this lack. First and the foremost thing is, you should be able
to exchange the information effectively and accurately.
Understanding
the Group Needs and Characteristics
It is very essential that we do first understand ourselves and our own needs
and the characteristics. Only then we can know and understand the other
people's needs and characters. This understanding will hopefully come naturally
as we mature, creeping over us like a ivy winding about the tree. By directly
exploring and encouraging the discovery of these kinds of personality traits,
we can do accelerate maturing of the leader, adding the fertilizer to ivy and
the tree. About Understanding the Group Needs and the Characteristics
Knowing
and Understanding the Group Resources
- Recognize
the knowledge and the use of the group resources as the major technique in
bringing the group together and creating a commitment to the common goals.
- Recognize
that the resources are theoretically limitless, and that the leader's and
the group's the ability to recognize and utilized the diverse resources
tremendously affects what a group can accomplish.
- Involve
more and more people in active leadership by giving each of them a part
according to his or her resources.
- Evaluate
a impact availability of the resources has on doing the job and maintaining
a group.
Controlling a Group
- Recognize
how his own behavior will influences and can control others.
- Distinguish
between the controlling group performance and setting an example.
- Identify
the control as the function of group, or of the facilitator, and
advantages and disadvantages of each having this responsibility.
- Identify
the different techniques for controlling the group performance and the
suitability in a different situations.
- Deploy
the group resources to best interests of a group while encouraging the
personal growth.
- Evaluate
the leadership performance in terms of the group performance.
Counseling
Counseling is the private
talk with someone which helps the individual to solve a personal problem. As a
leader, people will do come to you with the problems. Because you are the
leader, you will spot the people with problems. You cannot turn them away or will
just let them suffer, because a ignored problem, if serious, almost inevitably
will become a group problem. Counseling is been considered pretty difficult.
The professional counselors, like the vocational counselors, clergymen,
lawyers, bankers, teachers, psychiatrists and others, sometimes you will spend
years learning how to counsel in their fields. People often will pay large
amount of money to be counseled.
Setting
an Example
Setting an Example is the personal behavior independent of any external influences.
While very simple competency on its face, none is more important. Fail to
demonstrate this competency to the members of your group, and you will be
doomed to the negative results. No matter how good the line you talk, if you do
not match it with your behavior, you will not get any respect and will find it
increasingly difficult to get a group to work with you.
It might be more difficult under some of the circumstances to set the positive
example, but that will not stop you! Setting an Example is where your backbone
will show. If you have the character, if your character has the integrity--that
is, if who you are on outside is been lined up with who you are on inside--you
will accomplish a far more than you may imagine possible. For this kind of the
leader, as long as he do takes care of all his follower's needs, enjoys
respect, loyalty, and love.
Representing
a Group
Representing Group is accurately communicating to the non-group members a sum
of the group members ideas, feelings, etc., and vice versa. A leader should
represent his team on the great variety of the issues. Some of these issues and
a need for the decision representing a group interests will be known well in
advance; and others will not be.
Under any of the circumstances, to faithfully represent a group, you should:
- Fully
understand nature of the problem.
- Know
how a decision was been reached and be able to communicate this to others.
- Accurately
and responsibly do communicate from and back to a original group.
- Realize
that the other groups might derive their entire picture of the other group
through you, the representative. You should be consistent, possess the
integrity, and be fair to all the parties.
Problem-Solving
Effective use of the
problem-solving will do more than any other competency to advance both getting
a job done and keeping a group together. It is the "umbrella"
competency in all its effect on the variety of issues. The problem-solving is
useful both in the group situations and in the one-on-one.
Evaluation
Evaluation attitude is the predisposition to continually examine and analyze
all our efforts. Evaluation is very critical component of cyclical learning
process. It will not occur just formally at conclusion of the activities, but
also informally as well, by all been involved, throughout a project or task. An
Evaluation Attitude is one of the principals which form a basis of White Stag
Leadership Development Program.
One who will apply this attitude or the technique will be aware continually of
the objectives of his learning's and will do attempt to measure his growth
towards them.
Sharing
the Leadership
Sharing a Leadership translates on one level into the "styles" of the
leadership. Depending upon the job and a group, certain ways for a leader to
work with a group will be more appropriate than the others. It will also
identifies some generic roles groups have which can be distributed among all
the members.
Sharing the leadership is a key function of the leader. Ability to extend
herself, to accomplish the jobs greater than a person alone can handle, is one
of a key elements of the society's success today. Never has the society been so
productive.
Article
By
A.Nivethitha
Final
year