1. Session Title: Leadership
Date: 2012
Tutors: Michael McGeehin
(c) Ulster GAA Team Management Programme 2010 1

2. Learning Outcome for Unit
Understand the different roles of a manager in a sports environment.
Understand the distinction between leadership and management.
Understand different leadership styles used in a sports environment.
Understand the importance of effective communications
(c) Ulster GAA Team Management Programme 2012

3. Assessment Criteria 2.1 Critically compare leadership and management.
2.2 Analyse the characteristics of an effective leader.
3.1 Critically compare different leadership styles and how each style may be applied in different contexts.
3.2 Demonstrate the selection and use of appropriate leadership styles.

4. Leadership

5. Pick a leader you admire.
What was their success?
Why were they successful?
Describe them.

6. Any of these?

7. Leadership …….. I admire them because….
-> Leaders I admire include…..
I admire them because….

8. It ain’t what you do its the way that you do it.
Leadership Styles – Best Fit Approach

9. Where are you required to lead?
Leadership ……..
-> And the one minute manager
Where are you required to lead?
-> Task to the Group!

10. Traits of Leaders` Traits of Leaders ……..
Physical Factors: Height, Weight, Physique, Appearance and Age.
Ability Characteristics: Intelligence, Fluency of Speech, Scholarship and Knowledge.
Personality Features: Self Confidence, Self Control, interpersonal sensitivity, introversion – extroversion, need for power, need for achievement.
Traits of Leaders`

11. Characteristics of Leaders
Charismatic
Inspirational
Respectful
Loyal
Communicator
Stimulating
Supportive
Competent
Visible
Example
Unselfish
Characteristics of Leaders

12. Leadership is…….. Quotes on Leadership
-> From the Front… From Behind
Quotes on Leadership
-> Discuss

13. Leading Who and What…….. -> small picture…big picture Organisations
Strategy
& Vision
Teams
Others
Self

14. Influencing others to work diligently towards
Definitions of Leadership……..
The art of influencing a body of people to follow a certain course of action
Influencing others to work diligently towards
achieving their goal.

15. The Effective Leaders ……..
The TRAITS or characteristics they have
The BEHAVIOURS they exhibit 
The SITUATIONS in which they find themselves

16. Situational Leadership
“The right leadership to suit the situation”
“Leadership is about getting the job done by other people.
….But don’t concentrate on getting the job done and neglect the people OR concentrate on the people to the neglect of the job”
What leadership situations do you find yourself in?

17. Military Leadership
“ In the civilian world, there is the ever present concern about getting laid off. In the military, the concern is about being laid to rest! The same concern is the basis of leadership at every level...”
US Marine Corps manual, cited in ‘Strategic Direction’(1997) Bradford

18. Management v Leadership
Is there a difference?

19. Management and Leadership
People ask the difference between a Leader and a Manager.
The Leader works in the open and the Manager is covert.
The Leader leads
The Manager drives.
(Theodore Roosevelt)
Manage Things……. ……..Lead People (Rear Admiral Grace Hopper)

20. Management
Leaders and managers play different roles and make different contributions:
Leaders have followers
Managers have subordinates
(Huczynski and Buchanan, 2001)

21. Leadership and Management
Managers are restricting – Leaders are enabling
Managers play safe – Leaders take risks
Managers are controlling – Leaders are freeing
Managers are rigid – Leaders are flexible
Managers are autocratic- Leaders are democratic

22. Leadership and Management
Role of manager:
Planning/budgeting
Organising/staffing
Controlling
Produces Product
Orders
Predictability
Role of leader:
Establishing direction
Aligning people
Motivating/inspiring
Produces change
Resolves Conflict
Communicate
Instils Values
Transformational Leadership
Transactional Leadership

23. The Leadership Challenge
Focus on the individual members and the team
Provide individuals/team and stakeholders the opportunity to develop and utilize their talents and strengths
Listen to team/individual concerns
Allocate the right resources for the right project, at the right time
Specify standards and expectations
Delegate responsibility through empowerment
Let team/individuals and stakeholders identify their own interests and abilities
Lead by example: set the standard for excellence

24. Leadership
“Leaders are made, they are not born; and they are made like
anything else in this country….. By hard work!”
(Vince Lombardi)

25. Leadership Quotes…….. ON LEADERSHIP “Don’t work Harder Work Smarter”
“Different Strokes for Different Folks”
“There is nothing so unequal as the Equal Treatment of Unequals”
“You can expect more if you inspect more”
“When the best leaders work is done, the people say we did it ourselves”
“Situational Leaderships is not something you do to people
BUT
something you do with people”
“Everyone is a potential high performer
some people just need a little help along the way”
Leadership Quotes……..
-> Feedback from your group

26. Leadership Styles….. How you carry out your functions as leader.
-> Feedback from your group
How you carry out your functions as leader.
The way you typically behave to get things done.
The consistent pattern of behaviour you exhibit.
The way others recognise your leadership style.
Main types of leadership style
task oriented (more autocratic, results centred)
people/relationships oriented (more democratic)
Most of us demonstrate a dominant style.

27. Leadership Styles…….. Directing Coaching Supporting Delegating
-> Four Styles
Directing
Coaching
Supporting
Delegating
Leadership Behaviour…..
Directive Behaviour
Structure, Control, Supervise
Supportive Behaviour
Praise, Listen, Facilitate

28. Take the Worksheets and discuss……
-> Four Styles – when do you use them or do you use them at all?
HIGH
SUPPORTING
High Supportive
Low Directive Behaviour
COACHING
High Directive Behaviour
DELEGATING
Low Supportive
DIRECTING
Supportive Behaviour
LOW
HIGH
Directive Behaviour
“There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of un equals”

29. LEADING THE WAY LEADERSHIP SITTING BACK WORKING TOGETHER COMMUNICATION
ULSTER MOVING FORWARD
WAITING FOR OTHERS TO LEAD
INITIATIVE & DRIVE
INNOVATIVE…
CREATIVE …
LEADERS…
SETTING THE AGENDA…
OPENNESS
IMMEDIATE ACTION

30. Learning Outcome for Unit
2. Understand the distinction between leadership and management. 3. Understand different leadership styles used in a sports environment.
Assessment Criteria
2.1 Critically compare leadership and management.
2.2 Analyse the characteristics of an effective leader.
3.1 Critically compare different leadership styles and how each style may be applied in different contexts.
3.2 Demonstrate the selection and use of appropriate leadership styles.
(c) Ulster GAA Team Management Programme 2012

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