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Leadership
Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act toward achieving a common goal. In a
business setting, this can mean directing workers and colleagues with a strategy to meet the
company's needs.

Here's what you need to know about leadership, and some examples of how it can benefit
businesses.

What Is Leadership?
Leadership captures the essentials of being able and prepared to inspire others. Effective
leadership is based upon ideas—both original and borrowed—that are effectively communicated
to others in a way that engages them enough to act as the leader wants them to act.

A leader inspires others to act while simultaneously directing the way that they act. They must be
personable enough for others to follow their orders, and they must have the critical thinking skills
to know the best way to use the resources at an organization's disposal.

Alternate definition: Leadership may also refer to an organization's management structure.

2. Leadership: Define the following
A. Instructional Leadership
Instructional leadership is generally defined as the management of curriculum and instruction by
a school principal. This term appeared as a result of research associated with the effective school
movement of the 1980s, which revealed that the key to running successful schools lies in the
principals' role. However, the concept of instructional leadership is recently stretched out to
include more distributed models which emphasize distributed and shared empowerment among
school staff, for example distributed leadership, shared leadership, and transformational
leadership.
B. Strategic Leadership
Strategic leadership refers to a manager’s potential to express a strategic vision for the
organization, or a part of the organization, and to motivate and persuade others to acquire that
vision. Strategic leadership can also be defined as utilizing strategy in the management of
employees. It is the potential to influence organizational members and to execute organizational
change. Strategic leaders create organizational structure, allocate resources and express strategic
vision. Strategic leaders work in an ambiguous environment on very difficult issues that influence
and are influenced by occasions and organizations external to their own.

The main objective of strategic leadership is strategic productivity. Another aim of strategic
leadership is to develop an environment in which employees forecast the organization’s needs in
context of their own job. Strategic leaders encourage the employees in an organization to follow
their own ideas. Strategic leaders make greater use of reward and incentive system for
encouraging productive and quality employees to show much better performance for their
organization. Functional strategic leadership is about inventiveness, perception, and planning to
assist an individual in realizing his objectives and goals.

Strategic leadership requires the potential to foresee and comprehend the work environment. It
requires objectivity and potential to look at the broader picture.
C. Managerial Leadership
D. Human Resources Leadership
E. Cultural Leadership
F. Micro-Political Leadership
G. External Development Leadership
3. Describe Effective Leadership
4. Explain why Instructional leaders are also called learning leaders.
5. Give your reasons why a Principal functions much like a Chief Executive Officer of a
company.
6. Name the three personal styles of principal’s.
7. Describe transformational leadership.
8. Discuss the challenges to instructional leadership in Asia.
9. Discuss the barriers to effective instructional leadership and give some strategies to
overcome these.
10. Describe how emotional intelligence could be applied in instructional leadership.