1. Chairperson Training

2. Which Leaders Inspires You!

3. Leadership Characteristics
What qualities does a good leader have?
Why are they important?

4. Leadership Style Questionnaire
Complete the Leadership Style Quiz to find out your personal leadership style!

5. Leadership Style Questionnaire
4,6,12,14 Authoritative
1,8,11,13 Democratic
2,7,9, Facilitative
3,5,10,15 Situational

6. Authoritative Leaders
Personal Responsibility for decisions.
Tell or sell decisions to others.
Strengths
Weaknesses
Group members know where they stand.
Unlikely to get buy in from all the group.
Rapid decisions can be made.
May result in uninformed decisions.
Can focus on operational without worrying about the strategic.
Doesn’t allow the opportunity for others to develop.

7. Democratic Leaders All group members involved in the decision.
Establishes structure and ground rules to enable all to participate.
Strengths
Weaknesses
Power to the members.
May slow down tasks.
Energises and motivates the group.
Direction may lack clarity.
Builds individual responsibility.
Difficult when quick decisions are required.
Most popular decisions are not always the best.

8. Facilitative Leaders
Concerned with offering suggestions and letting the group determine the structure, content and operations.
Group activity a learning process and its ok to make mistakes.
Strengths
Weaknesses
Encourages creativity and explores ideas.
Can lead to chaos and lack of clarity.
Enables individual learning.
The Leadership ‘gap’ can be filled by others informally.
Can be empowering to group members.

9. Situational Leaders
Adapt leadership style depending on the needs of each individual situation.
Takes into account the skills of team members, level of confidence and the task required.
Strengths
Weaknesses
Allows for group changes over time.
Difficult to deliver effectively.
Adaptable depending on the situation.
May lead to team uncertainty and resistance.

10. Effective Chairing
Each team will be appointed a leader who will chair a meeting with their team. Each team member will receive a card with an instruction for the meeting and should follow these instructions throughout the course of the meeting.
Each team leader will also receive an instruction for the meeting which they should follow throughout the course of the meeting.
Please be prepared to discuss how the meeting went following the activity!

11. Tips for Effective Chairing
Always have an agenda and circulate beforehand
Make clear action points
Listen to the team
Encourage all the team to contribute
Allow one speaker at a time
Ask constructive questions
Focus on solutions rather than problems
Always write meeting minutes

12. Questioning Skills
In small groups you will pick a famous person at random from a set of cards and the others will have to ask questions to work out who it is.
The person with the card can only answer with yes/no!