Purpose

1. To develop an understanding of different types of leadership skills 2. To examine how leadership skills affect a leader’s performance 

Directions

1. Your task in this exercise is to observe a leader and evaluate that person’s leadership skills. This leader can be a supervisor, a manager, a coach, a teacher, a fraternity or sorority officer, or anyone who has a position that involves leadership.

2. For each of the groups of skills listed below, write what you observed about this leader.

Name of leader: _______________

Questions

1. Based on your observations, what were the leader’s strengths and weaknesses?

2. In what setting did this leadership example occur? Did the setting influence the kind of skills that the leader used? Discuss.

3. If you were coaching this leader, what specific things would you tell this leader about how he or she could improve leadership skills? Discuss.

4. In another situation, do you think this leader would exhibit the same strengths and weaknesses? Discuss.

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Administrative skills Comments: Interpersonal skills Managing people Poor Weak Average Good Very good Managing resources Poor Weak Average Good Very good Showing technical competence Poor Weak Average Good Very good Being socially perceptive Showing emotional intelligence Managing conflict Comments: 2 1 3 2 3 5 4 5 Poor Weak Average Good Very good Poor Weak Average Good Very good Poor Weak Average Good Very good