Principles of Leadership

This type of leadership involves the leader making all the decisions without input from others, very direct.

• Democratic

• Autocratic

• Laissez-Faire

This is a passive leadership style and allows others to make decisions, the leader will have little to no input

• Democratic

• Autocratic

• Laissez Faire

This type of leadership seeks opinions from others during decision making...But the leader still makes the final decision

• Democratic

• Autocratic

• Laissez Faire

A sporting example of Laissez Faire leadership would be...

• The manager at Lloyds TSB having a staff meeting whereby input from employees is welcomed

• A half time talk from a manager telling players what they need to be doing and how they should be playing

• Captains sharing ideas with teammates on the field of how best to win the game through tactics

• A football manager leaving players to figure out their own tactical mistakes instead of telling them

This method is best used for dealing with large groups or in circumstances where there may be potential hazards

• Laissez Faire

• Liberal

• Democratic

• Autocratic

For the Laissez Faire style of teaching to work...

• The group needs to be led and told exactly what to do and when

• The group needs to be highly motivated and mature, self-guided and creative

• The group needs to be aggressive and small in numbers

• The group needs to be unmotivated and not willing to have any input

A non-sporting example of Autocratic leadership would be..

• Within a classroom group, 6 people will share the decisions of what they are going to do and how they will do it

• A democratic leadership within a country

• Coaching with inflexible training structures

• A dictatorship leader within a country

This leadership style is well suited to individual sports like track and field events and younger athletes where they can develop some control over training

• Autocratic

• Democratic

• Laissez Faire

A leader may use all 3 of these leadership styles depending on the situation and group they are working with

• True

• False

Good leaders will...

• Always choose the Laissez Faire style, allowing groups the freedom to do as they see best

• Change or choose their leadership style based on what is required in the situation and group they are working with

• Be task orientated and focus solely on the will and need to win because this is what is most important in sport

• Be person orientated and should not care about winning, it is the relationships of the team that are most important