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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 (McShane and 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 (McKenna 2006). Thus, unpleasant disagreements were avoided.

WHAT THE TEAM DID WELL

Self-research

Each of us tends to do our own research before every meeting without being told. This facilitates the meeting and cuts down reading time.

Meeting Agenda and Timeline

There was a timeline (Appendix) drawn up at the first meeting. Our team also has an agenda for every meeting. By being disciplined, we managed to meet our deadlines and were able to complete our portion of assignment on time.

Constructive Feedback

Our team did not encounter arguments as everyone is open to constructive feedback with clear examples (Wood et al. 2004). We accepted polite criticisms and were willing to make adjustments to a task.

Flexibility

Our team was able to adapt quickly with the departure of Amal who was exempted from the module by forming a new agenda for the next meeting and re-delegating our tasks and roles effectively.

WHAT THE TEAM DID POORLY

Punctuality

Our team had the problem of being punctual. We managed to overcome it by conducting our meetings after lectures. However, with long school hours, our concentration span became shorter. Hence, each of us made efforts to rearrange personal schedules for group meetings.

Task Deviation

Our team tends to deviate from the discussion topic easily. Sometimes, this tends to make our meetings longer than required.

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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