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Leadership Vocab
Leadership Vocabular
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Leader | the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country |
| Leadership | the action of leading a group of people or an organization |
| Power | the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events |
| Position Power | power you have when you have a specific rank or title in an organization |
| Expert Power | the ability to influence others because of one's superior knowledge or skill in a particular area |
| Identity Power | ability to influence others based on their identity with the person |
| Leadership Style | the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people to accomplish a task |
| Initiative | the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do |
| Human Relations | relations with or between people, particularly the treatment of people in a professional context |
| Integrity | the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness |
| Autocratic Leadership | one person controls all the decisions and takes very little inputs from other group members |
| Democratic Leadership | welcome and value others' input, rely heavily on team participation, and facilitate discussions that enable multiple members of their group to weigh in on decisions |
| Free-Rein leadership | a type of leadership style in which leaders are hands-off and allow group members to make the decisions |
| Delegate | entrust a task or responsibility to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself |
| Self-Managed Teams | a group of employees within an organization who share the responsibility of planning and executing their work, without the supervision of a manager |
| Open Leader | having the confidence and humility to give up the need to be in control while inspiring commitment from people to accomplish goals |
| Situational Leader | employs one of four leadership styles that provide him or her with the highest probability of success in every situation they encounter |
| Reward Power | the formal power given to a work leader to give out rewards to other employees |