Group-Centered Theories

Team leadership is…

• How leaders facilitate team performance

• How leaders facilitate individual importance

• Not a type of leadership

The four main types of teams are…

• Productive, Destructive, Effective, and Efficient

• Group Formation, Group Storming, Group Norming, and Group Performing

• Manager-Led, Self-Managing, Self-Designing, and Self-Governing

The two key concepts of team leadership include…

• Leaders in team settings can either have formal or informal roles; leaders in teams may influence the team internally or externally

• Leaders in team settings always have formal roles; leaders in teams may only influence teams internally

• Leaders in team settings always have informal roles; leaders in teams may only influence teams externally

The three Team Leader Functions include…

• Flow of Power, Inattention to Social Location, and Disregard of Context

• Explaining, Engaging, and Encouraging

• Setting Direction, Managing Operations, and Developing Team’s Capacity for Self-Management

Shared leadership is…

•  Leadership responsibilities are distributed, people within a team lead each other

• Leadership responsibilities are controlled by one authority figure in a team

• Leadership responsibilities are continuously changed throughout a group

The precursor conditions of shared leadership include…

• Leader-Member Exchange Theory, Team Leadership, Shared Leadership

• Individual reflection, authority, independence of work, individual efficacy

• Team environment, support of positional leaders, interdependence of work, collective efficacy

The most distinguishing feature of shared leadership is…

• Influence can arise from any direction of the group, everyone can be the leader

• Influence can arise from one direction of the group, one person can be the leader

• Influence can arise from any direction of the group, but only one person can implement decisions

How is the flow of power an ideal tool of Deconstruction…..

• Because of its focus on directionality in power dynamics and their entanglement with social location

• Because of its focus on teamwork and intrapersonal reflection

• Becuase of its focus on the shifts in leadership

What is dialectical thinking?

• The process of holding two seemingly contradictory concepts in unison

• The process of comparing two seemingly similar concepts

How is understanding individuals' psychological relationships with authority important?

• Because it's identifying and disrupting inequitable power dynamics in group-centered leadership theories

• Because it's telling you who has the innate traits to be a leader

• Becuase it's emphasizing that there must alwasy be an authority figure in leadership roles