Leading Your Team Fast Track Management Guide: Š MBA 2008
Mark Butcher
An MBA Fast Track Management Guide
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Leading Your Team Fast Track Management Guide: © MBA 2008
Contents Introduction
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A quick history of management and leadership
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What do we mean by ‘leadership’?
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Situational leadership - the four leadership styles
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Leading the team through stages in its development
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Developing a vision
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Motivating your team
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Leading your team from ‘good’ to ‘great’
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Achieving ‘Pay Off’
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Excellence in management
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Top leadership tips
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Further reading
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About the author
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Leading Your Team Fast Track Management Guide: © MBA 2008
Introduction About MBA
MBA, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, is one of the U.K.'s leading providers of training, consultancy and information to voluntary, community and statutory sector organisations. In the past 14 years we have worked with hundreds of organisations across Europe, Africa and the U.S.A. including the National Trust in London, the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam and the Carmichael Centre in Dublin. Our mission is to enable not-for-profit organisations and the individuals within them to exceed expectations and operate at a higher level.
About MBA Fast Track Management Guides Each Fast Track Guide is designed to give you a quick overview of a specific management issue, covering all of the points and issues.
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21 Ways to Manage Your Time
The 10 Golden Rules of Not-for-Profit Marketing
An Introduction To Project Management
The Magic Circle – Strategic Planning for Nonprofits
Influencing and Negotiating Skills
High Impact Presentation Skills
Fundraising
Peak Performance
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Leading Your Team Fast Track Management Guide: Š MBA 2008
About this Management Guide There are two ways to benefit from this publication. You can read it from cover to cover (we have kept it nice and short to help you). This will give you access to all of the key ideas, themes and issues related to the subject.
If you have more time though, you can work through the exercises, apply the learning to your own organisation and share your thinking with colleagues. Although this will demand more time, we strongly believe it will give you better results and real solutions to your specific challenges.
Taking your learning further
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Leading Your Team Fast Track Management Guide: © MBA 2008
A quick history of management and leadership
What happened next th
Gurus! That’s what. The 20 Century is littered with industrial psychologists, management thinkers and sociologists who have sought hard to put their own spin on the description of the activities and relationships which have been inherent to human society from the beginning. Frederick Taylor started it in the 1920s. He was the first management ‘thinker’ to attempt to define the basic principle of management. Taylor believed that
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away …
there were those people who ‘managed’ and then there were the rest of us who needed to be told
Leadership and management have always been
what to do. Managers were responsible for
with us. Well, at least since somebody said ‘hey
organising the workers to efficiently get the job
guys, lets form a tribe. We can build huts and
done.
canoes and stuff. Eventually someone will invent geometry and that will mean we can build some really big monuments to the Gods. Quick, you lot skulking at the back. Go and invent religion.’ Or words to that effect. Since recorded history began people have been managed and led in pursuit of a shared goal. From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the Great Wall of China. From Alexander’s march through Asia to William’s landing at Hastings. Through a long history of empires that have come and gone – Persian, Roman, Greek, Toltec, Aztec, Dutch and British to name only a few – leadership 10 years later Henri Fayol was telling us that
has been essential to the successful creation of a
managers needed to be good at forecasting,
functioning civil society, the building of great works
organising, directing, controlling and
and the organisation of healthy communities. And
communicating.
all without a management consultant in sight!
By the 1950s thinking had progressed beyond seeing workers as ’cogs in a machine’ and the likes of McGregor, Maslow and Herzberg were talking
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