All of us have skills to contribute to collective efforts of our given cause. Few of us have all the skills necessary to build strong organizations. Effective leaders are aware of the skills they possess, recognize those they need to develop, and build strong teams of people with diverse skills working towards shared goals.
The following chart illustrates four different types of leaders - all necessary to build strong organizations:
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Process Leader: The Leader as Community Builder
Mission: Create strong democratic organizations in which members develop their ability to participate in decision-making, resolve conflict when it occurs, and feel a strong sense of belonging.
Skills: Communication Community-building Conflict resolution Group facilitation and decision making
Understand how individuals and groups develop. Begin where members "are at" and work to effectively increase participation and involvement.
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Task Leader: The Leader as Manager
Mission: Create effective organizations that act to meet members' shared goals. Focused on goals, objectives and outcomes.
Skills: Efficiency Accountability Organization Task Orientation Follow-through/persistence
Results-oriented. Know how to create structures and motivate people to accomplish the work of the organization.
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Strategic Leader: The Leader as Change Agent
Mission: Develop effective strategies for both short-term and long-term change and work with others to put those strategies into action.
Skills: Vision Analytic Skills Ability to plan Future-directed Sense of history
Believe in the possibility of change. Analyze forces for and against change. Develop effective approaches to change. |
Ethical Leader: The Leader as Moral Compass
Mission: Challenge groups to pursue goals that are just. Insist that the group acts with honesty and integrity.
Skills: Long term vision Ethical sensibility Moral courage
Believe that ethical values are important and that social justice should be a measure of success. Able to raise ethical issues in a group.
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