Understanding Leadership Styles: Charismatic to Servant Leaders

Groups Exercises: Chapter 3 Exercise 3.1: The Charismatic Leader (p. 74) Goal : This exercise is designed to assist you in identifying charismatic people and understanding the various characteristics that lead a person to be charismatic. 1. Write the names of three people you identify as being charismatic. These may be presidents (prime ministers), political leaders, religious leaders, teachers, acquaintances and so on. For each person you identify, list the characteristics that cause this person (in your view) to be charismatic. 2. For the three people you wrote about, identify the charismatic characteristics that all three individuals appear to have in common. 3. Do any of these people have unique charismatic characteristics (that is, characteristics that are not held by the other two)? If “yes” identify the person and describe their unique characteristics. Taken from: Zastrow, C., & Hessenaur, S. L. (2018). Empowerment series: Social work with groups: Comprehensive practice and self-care. Brooks/Cole Publishing

Exercise 3.2: Machiavellian Leaders (p.75) Goal: This exercise is designed to assist you in understanding the characteristics of Machiavellian leaders. Some authorities view Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Saddam Hussein as Machiavellian leaders. Identify three people you view as Machiavellian leaders. (These people may include one or more of the leaders just mentioned.) For each person you list, write the characteristics they had (or has) that are Machiavellian in nature. Taken from: Zastrow, C., & Hessenaur, S. L. (2018). Empowerment series: Social work with groups: Comprehensive practice and self-care. Brooks/Cole Publishing

Exercise 3.3: Authoritarian, Democratic, and Laissez-Faire Leaders (p.77) Goal: This exercise is designed to help you understand these types of leadership styles. 1. Identify someone who used an authoritarian style in a leadership group. State what the leader did that led you to conclude that their style was authoritarian. Also state what the reactions of the other group members were to this authoritarian style. 2. Identify someone who used a democratic style in a leadership group. State what the leader did that led you to conclude that their style was democratic. Also state what the reactions of the other group members were to this democratic style. 3. Identify someone who used a laissez-faire style in a leadership group. State what the leaders did that led you to conclude that their style was laissez-faire. Also state what the reactions of the other group members were to this laissez-faire style. Taken from: Zastrow, C., & Hessenaur, S. L. (2018). Empowerment series: Social work with groups: Comprehensive practice and self-care. Brooks/Cole Publishing

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Exercise 3.4: Applying the Distributive-Functions Approach (p.78) Goal: This exercise is designed to show you that you have already taken on leadership functions in a group. The distributed-functions approach asserts that every member of a group will be a leader at times by taking actions that serve group functions. Identify a group that you are currently in or that you were a member of in the past. Describe the actions you took that were useful to the group. (When you made positive contributions to this group, you were taking on leadership responsibilities.) Exercise 3.5: Servant Leaders (p.79) Goal: This exercise is designed to help you understand the servant leadership approach. Identify someone who used the servant leadership approach in leading a group. Perhaps the person was a teacher or member of the clergy. State what the leader did that led you to conclude their style was servant leadership. Also state what the reactions of the group were to this style. Taken from: Zastrow, C., & Hessenaur, S. L. (2018). Empowerment series: Social work with groups: Comprehensive practice and self-care. Brooks/Cole Publishing

Exercise 3.6: Your Task and Maintenance Contributions to a Group (p.82) Goal: This exercise is designed to assist you in understand your task and maintenance contributions to a group. 1. Identify a group you are currently participating in or have participated with in the past. Briefly describe this group, including its goals. 2. Review the list of task roles and then describe your task contributions to this group. 3. Review the list of maintenance roles and then describe your maintenance contributions to this group. Taken from: Zastrow, C., & Hessenaur, S. L. (2018). Empowerment series: Social work with groups: Comprehensive practice and self-care. Brooks/Cole Publishing

Exercise 3.8: Groups of Equal Power and Unequal Power (p.88) Goal: This exercise is designed to help you understand the effects of equal and unequal power among members in a group. 1. Describe a group that you participated in where group members had approximately the same amount of power. 2. Describe a group that you participated in where a few group members had most of the power and the rest of the members had very little power. 3. Which group were you the most attracted to? What are the reasons for this attraction? 4. Review the section on the effects of unequal power. Describe how these research results are consistent or inconsistent with your experiences of being in a group of equal power and then in a group of unequal power. Taken from: Zastrow, C., & Hessenaur, S. L. (2018). Empowerment series: Social work with groups: Comprehensive practice and self-care. Brooks/Cole Publishing

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