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ob part b part2

CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH AND EVALUATION OF LEADERSHIP

The contingency perspective to leadership is based on the idea that the most suitable leadership style relies on the circumstances (Mc Shane & Travaglione 2007). In our team, there was an apparent rotation of leaders. With regards to the Path-goal leadership theory, the leadership style undertaken in our team is the Participative style. With every rotation, the leader facilitates the members’ involvement and consults them before coming to a consensus (Mc Kenna 2006).

For instance, when a member raised doubts about the content of her task, the leader consulted other team members before deciding the information required. Thus, unpleasant disagreements were not encountered as everyone was open to feedback.

WHAT THE TEAM DID WELL

SELF-RESEARCH

Each of us tends to do our own research before every meeting despite not being told to. This facilitates the meeting and cuts down on reading time as everyone is clear of the objectives.

MEETING AGENDA AND TIMELINE

There was an agenda and timeline (Appendix) drawn at the first meeting. An agenda was also drawn up for the next meeting at the end of one. We managed to meet our drawn up deadlines and every team member was able to complete their portion of assignment on time.

CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK

Our team did not encounter any arguments as everyone is open to constructive feedback with clear examples (Wood et al. 2004). Each of us accepted polite criticisms and was willing to make adjustments to a task after the team has come to a consensus.

WHAT THE TEAM DID POORLY

PUNCTUALITY

Some of our team members arrived late at the first meeting. However, we have managed to overcome the problem by conducting our meetings after lectures instead.

TASK DEVIATION

Our team tends to deviate from the discussion topic easily. Sometimes, this tends to make our meetings longer than required as we need more time to meet our agenda.

WHAT THE TEAM COULD DO DIFFERENTLY

EARLY START-UP

The team agreed that we will start on an assignment earlier than we did this time. This will ensure that we have more time for research and meetings. In addition, we can overcome the clash of schedules as we do not need to work around a tight schedule.

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