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Questions to Teach Leadership and Management

Great Leadership By Dan

What’s the "best" leadership style? Trick question, leads to a nice discussion on situational leadership. It’s fun to allow groups to get there by themselves. Does a leader need power? How can a leader avoid being corrupted by power? Think about the best leaders you have ever known. What made them so great? If so, how?

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14 Leadership Studies – Quick Overview of Leadership

CO2

PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP THEORY. The id ea of a participative leadership style arises from the work of Dr. Rensis Likert in 1967. Likert proposed several types of leadership styles including exploitative authoritative, benevolent authoritative, consultative, and participative. SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP THEORY.

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Expedition Leadership in the Wild

Harvard Business Review

Outdoor training activities, even those as straightforward as lightweight backpacking, enable students to actually practice different leadership and communication models so that they can learn about their own leadership style and its impact on outcomes in a group. Competence, teamwork, and communication are all on display.

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