From the course: Leadership Styles, Behaviors, and Approaches
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Modern leadership skills
From the course: Leadership Styles, Behaviors, and Approaches
Modern leadership skills
- Picture it, it was the 1950s. The dominant school of thought on leadership was you were either a born leader or you weren't. This all-or-nothing approach didn't sit well with researchers from Ohio State, the University of Michigan, and others. These teams shifted the focus from the belief in the concept of a born leader to a behavioral or a skills-based approach to leadership. Their studies concluded that leadership in action was learnable. Since then, we've been distilling all the possible leadership skills we might develop down to a list that leaders should develop in today's world. The first part of the leadership skillset is all about task-driven skills and communication. Leaders who lean heavily in this direction are called task-oriented or production-oriented leaders. These leaders show competence in their own skills and focus on the technical aspects of employees' work. They initiate plans, employees follow. They create standard operating procedures, rules, and policies. When…
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