Leadership Theory Handbook for College Professors
INTRODUCTION
This is a guidebook on the leadership of learning and teaching for college lecturers. Specialist skills are required in the area to embrace the emerging teaching and learning methodologies. Some of these emerging trends include
Being familiar with effective methods of teaching, assessment, and application of relevant technologies for effective delivery of the curriculum
Management and leadership competence
This handbook is written to meet the broadly accepted need for supporting the development of professional competencies and tools for leaders at the individual level.
The initial part explores the primary leadership aspects and functions that target what leaders who succeed do to encourage excellence in teaching and learning.
The second part, a brief account of the background, offers the lead ideas on leadership theories that drive the book's themes.
The guide also examines the main audience for college professors, including those charged with teaching and governance. It also explores the following
Strategic leadership: the clear vision of an institution on how students learn and how to realize such a vision
Robust leadership: the inspiration of the trainers must espouse providing the best possible student experience
It offers an encouraging perspective of teaching at the university level, basing on the evidence of effective options.
Qualities of leadership
A leader is a person with qualities of leadership. A leader's skills and knowledge to steer a group to achieve specific objectives voluntarily.
This part examines the functions and qualities of a leader. One cannot overlook character and personality when it comes to matters of leadership. There are some general traits of leadership. Here is a list of seven outstanding ones.
Seven qualities of leadership
1. Must be enthusiastic
2. Must have integrity
3. Must be fair: impartiality is critical
4. Should elicit toughness: should demand and insist on high standards
5. Should also be warm: should show concern for others
6. Must be humble: should have listening skills and trim down on their ego
7. Should also be confident. So pushes where they are certain and acknowledges where others help out devoid of arrogance
Functions of leadership
Three variables exist in leadership:
1. Aspects of character and personality
2. The situation: partly constant
3. Group: followers, values, and needs
This part of the handbook examines the functions of leadership concerning workgroup needs. There are three such overlapping needs:
1. Need for task: it is based on achieving a common task
2. Needs for maintenance of the team: for the team to jell and stay together
3. Needs of the individual: needs that individuals come into the group with
Based on the above three needs, people have the following expectations of their leaders
To help them accomplish a common mission
Build synergies in the group
Respond to individual needs and meet them
The tasks call for organizations or groups to emerge since one individual cannot accomplish it. There are needs sewn around a task because there is built up pressure to achieve its completion to avert frustration among the team members if they are deterred in their quest to accomplish it.
The needs for team maintenance exist because the promotion, creation, and retention of the cohesiveness of an organization is important on the unity principle
Individual needs can be split into two, i.e., salary and psychological needs:
a sense of accomplishment
recognition
the deeper urge to give and receive from others in a working situation
status
Figure 1: The Task, Team, and Individual needs overlap (Thomas, 2020)
The overlapping shows
Task achievement: satisfies the individual and builds the team
If the team's maintenance is lacking, there is an impairment in task performance; satisfaction at the individual level also decreases.
If the needs of the individual are not met, there will be no cohesiveness. There will also be…
Leadership Theory Handbook for College Professors
INTRODUCTION
This is a guidebook on the leadership of learning and teaching for college lecturers. Specialist skills are required in the area to embrace the emerging teaching and learning methodologies. Some of these emerging trends include
Being familiar with effective methods of teaching, assessment, and application of relevant technologies for effective delivery of the curriculum
Management and leadership competence
This handbook is written to meet the broadly accepted need for supporting the development of professional competencies and tools for leaders at the individual level.
The initial part explores the primary leadership aspects and functions that target what leaders who succeed do to encourage excellence in teaching and learning.
The second part, a brief account of the background, offers the lead ideas on leadership theories that drive the book's themes.
The guide also examines the main audience for college professors, including those charged with teaching and governance. It also explores the following
Strategic leadership: the clear vision of an institution on how students learn and how to realize such a vision
Robust leadership: the inspiration of the trainers must espouse providing the best possible student experience
It offers an encouraging perspective of teaching at the university level, basing on the evidence of effective options.
Qualities of leadership
A leader is a person with qualities of leadership. A leader's skills and knowledge to steer a group to achieve specific objectives voluntarily.
This part examines the functions and qualities of a leader. One cannot overlook character and personality when it comes to matters of leadership. There are some general traits of leadership. Here is a list of seven outstanding ones.
Seven qualities of leadership
1. Must be enthusiastic
2. Must have integrity
3. Must be fair: impartiality is critical
4. Should elicit toughness: should demand and insist on high standards
5. Should also be warm: should show concern for others
6. Must…
Leadership Theory Handbook for College Professors
INTRODUCTION
This s a guidebook on the leadership of learning and teaching for college lecturers. Specialist skills are required in the area to embrace the emerging teaching and learning methodologies. Some of these emerging trends include
Being familiar with effective methods of teaching, assessment, and application of relevant technologies for effective delivery of the curriculum
Management and leadership...
It also explores the following
Strategic leadership: the clear vision of an institution on how students learn and how to realize such a vision
Robust leadership: the inspiration of the trainers must espouse providing the best possible student experience
It offers an encouraging perspective of teaching at the university level, basing on the evidence of effective options.
Qualities of leadership
A leader is a person with qualities of leadership. A leader's skills and knowledge to steer a group to achieve specific objectives voluntarily.
This part examines the functions and qualities of a leader. One cannot overlook character and personality when it comes to matters of leadership. There are some general traits of leadership. Here is a list of seven outstanding ones.
Seven qualities of leadership
1. Must be enthusiastic
2. Must have integrity
3. Must be fair: impartiality is critical
4. Should elicit toughness: should demand and insist on high standards
5. Should also be warm: should show concern for others
6. Must be humble: should have listening skills and trim down on their ego
7. Should also be confident. So pushes where they are certain and acknowledges where others help out devoid of arrogance
Functions of leadership
Three variables exist in leadership:
1. Aspects of character and personality
2. The situation: partly constant
3. Group: followers, values, and needs
This part of the handbook examines the functions of leadership concerning.......ieving a common task
2. Needs for maintenance of the team: for the team to jell and stay together
3. Needs of the individual: needs that individuals come into the group with
Based on the above three needs, people have the following expectations of their leaders
To help them accomplish a common mission
Build synergies in the group
Respond to individual needs and meet them
The tasks call for organizations or groups to emerge since one individual cannot accomplish it. There are needs sewn around a task because there is built up pressure to achieve its completion to avert frustration among the team members if they are deterred in their quest to accomplish it.
The needs for team maintenance exist because the promotion, creation, and retention of the cohesiveness of an organization is important on the unity principle
Individual needs can be split into two, i.e., salary and psychological needs:
a sense of accomplishment
recognition
the deeper urge to give and receive from others in a working situation
status
Figure 1: The Task, Team, and Individual needs overlap (Thomas, 2020)
The overlapping shows
Task achievement: satisfies the individual and builds the team
If the team's maintenance is lacking, there is an impairment in task performance; satisfaction at the individual level also decreases.
If the needs of the individual are not met, there will be no cohesiveness. There will also be impairment in the performance of the task
It is important to consider the individual, task, and team needs at all levels. To accomplish a common mission, you must maintain teamwork and meet the needs of individuals. Some functions must be performed. Functions refer to what the leader does.
The functions include:
1. task definition
1. Planning
1. Updating others
1. Controlling
1. Evaluating
1. Encouraging/Motivating
1. Organizing
1. Leading by example
Figure 2: Functions of leadership concerning team, task, and individual (Thomas, 2020)
The above functions need high-level skills for them to be excellently handled as they should be.
Some qualities of leadership have functional value. They can be termed leadership traits or characteristics
Leadership characteristics
THE NEED
QUALITY
FUNCTIONAL VALUE
Task
Initiative
Mobilizes the group
Perseverance
Keeps the team spirit high
Efficiency
Work completed effectively with knowledge of time and costs
Honesty
Use of facts
Self-confidence
Dealing with facts
Industry
Steady production generates benefits
Audacity
Free to take leave from rigid rules
Humility
Avoiding the blame game
Team
Integrity
Building trust and jellying
Humor
Tension diffusion
Audacity
Inspiring others by being an originator of ideas
Self-confidence
Trust by others
Justice
Group discipline is enhanced with fair dealing
Honesty
Earns respect
Humility
They praise where it is necessary, they also share it, desist from arrogance
Individual
Tact
Not indifferent
Compassion
Ability to sympathize and help others
Consistency
Everyone knows where they stand
Humility
Notes qualities and abilities and gives praise
Honesty
Commands respect from individuals
Justice
dealing fairly motivates others
In the exercise of their functions, leaders should show the attributes below
1. Influence on the group: to produce a willingness by a group achieve a goal
2. Command: to be decisive
3. Calmness: to remain calm and focused under turmoil
4. Judgment: can organize resources and information in a way that it helps achieve results easily and fast
5. Application: to show sustained effort alongside dependability to accomplish a task or achieve goals
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
We shall now examine the eight functions highlighted above.
1 tASK DEFINITION
A task is a job that is lined up for accomplishing. Workers in organizations must be made to understand it through an objective that is:
clear
time-limited
challenging
concrete
realistic
Capable of evaluation.
2 Planning
This is an organizational activity that calls for searching for options. It is best done by engaging in open brainstorming with others. Planning responds to questions related to what, why, how, and when.
3 Briefing
Giving instructions to a teamis a primary function of leadership usually done in physical encounter situations. Briefings provide an opportunity for
Creating a conducive atmosphere
Promoting teamwork
Knowing and motivating every individual
4 Controlling
It has been observed that excellent leaders get optimal outcomes with minimal resource input. To control other people, a leader must show self-control. It should also be noted that becoming angry is also legitimate if circumstances call for it. Indeed, such a reaction also helps in certain situations.
5 Evaluating
Leaders should demonstrate
Aptness at situation assessm
