Managing NGOs
Leadership development
How to lead organisations more effectively
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National Minority AIDS Council, USA, 2008
Successful Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) can attribute their success to employing 15 key components that support organisational effectiveness. One of these 15 key components is leadership development.
This manual aims to give learners new insight and specific tools to lead their organisations more effectively and develop better relations with employees and partners. It is based on the premise that a community’s capacity to effectively coordinate HIV/AIDS efforts depends on skilled leadership.
Key features include:
- overview of leadership: what are the attributes of a good leader, three leadership theories (trait theory, great events theory, and transformational theory)
- personal leadership styles: althought everyone has a preferred way of behaving, preferred styles may not be the best way to respond to a particular situation or person. Style flexibility refers to the ability and need to use the style that best meets the needs of a particular situation or person so that we can be more effective as leaders
- creating empowering climates: this section aims to provide an understanding of the followers’ role in leadership and how to use earlier identified styles to create empowering climates for others to succeed
- creating a vision: it is the important job of a leader to facilitate the creation a shared vision, which is articulated in writing. This fits into the idea of transformational leadership.
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