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Chapter 3 Effective Group Leadership

Prepared by: Nathaniel N Ivers, Wake Forest

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Roadmap

Definition of Leadership

Leadership Styles

Personal Qualities of Effective Leaders

Knowledge and Skills

Roles and Functions

Co-Leaders

Group Supervision

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Leadership Defined

 Disagreement exists about what a leader is

 However, some common responsibilities of effective leadership, particularly with groups, can be distinguished:

 Envisioning goals

 Motivating people

 Achieving a workable unity in an

appropriate and timely manner

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Group Leadership Styles

 Authoritarian Group Leaders

 Democratic Group Leaders

 Laissez-faire Group Leaders

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Authoritarian Group Leaders

 Envision themselves as experts

 Tend to be rigid and conventional in their beliefs (Cheng et al., 1998)

 Interpret, give advice, and generally direct the movement of the group

 Demand obedience and conformity from group members

 Theory X leaders

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Democratic Group Leaders

 Are more group-centered and less directive than authoritarian leaders

 Trust group participants to develop their own potential and that of other group members

 Serve as facilitators of the group process

 Cooperate, collaborate, and share responsibilities with the group

 Are more humanistically and phenomenologically oriented

 Are Theory Y Leaders (McGregor, 1960)

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Laissez-faire Leaders

 Are leaders in name only

 Do not provide structure or direction of their groups, creating a centered perspective of operation

group- Are considered Theory Z leaders (Ouchi, 1981)

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 Freedom from excessive anxiety

 A desire to help people

(Slavson, 1962)

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 Goodwill and caring

 Belief in group process

 Openness

(Corey et al., 2014)

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Group Leader Knowledge

 Course work and experiential requirements

 Knowledge of specializations, theories, and research as well as skills

 Assessment of group members and social systems

 Planning and implementing group interventions

 Leadership and co-leadership

 Evaluation

 Ethical practice, best practice, and diversity-competent practice (ASGW,

2000)

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Specific Group Skills

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Group Leadership Roles and

Functions Six essential roles and functions that a group leader must carry out:

 Group member selection

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Group Leader Roles and Functions

 Five specific techniques for managing conflict in groups:

 Withdrawal from the conflict

 Suppressing conflict

 Integrating conflicting ideas to form new

solutions

 Working out a compromise

 Using power to resolve the conflict

(Kormanski, 1982; Simpson, 1977)

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Co-Leaders in Groups

 A professional or a professional-in training who undertakes the

responsibility of sharing the leadership of a group with another leader in a mutually determined manner in order to facilitate counseling, therapy, or group member interaction

 Occurs often, especially in groups with a membership of 12 or more

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Co-leaders in Groups - Advantages

 Ease of handling the group in difficult situations

 Uses of modeling

 Feedback

 Shared specialized knowledge

 Pragmatic considerations

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Co-Leaders in Groups - Limitations

 Lack of coordinated efforts

 Two leader focused

 Competition

 Collusion

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Group Leadership Training

 Group-Based Training

 Group Generalist Model

 Educational and Developmental Procedure

 Systematic Group Leadership Training

 Critical-Incident Model and Intervention Cube

 Skilled Group Counseling Training Model

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Group Supervision

 Increases supervisees’ independence and self-confidence (Linton, 2003)

 Helps supervisees broaden their understanding from a focus on individual issues to interpersonal and group-as-a-system issues (Rubel & Okech, 2006)

 Peer group supervision is another way of providing group leaders with supervision