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The Contributing Factors to Being a Good Leader When Involved in Racket Team and Individual Activities

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The Contributing Factors to Being a Good Leader When Involved in Racket Team and Individual Activities

In this essay I will look at what makes a good leader? Different styles of leadership and how you will have to change your leadership styles to suit different activities.

There are a lot of things that you need to become a good leader. For example you have to be:

* A good communicator

* Respected

* Empathetic

* Knowledgeable

* A role model

* A high level performer

* Confident.

Although all of these characteristics are important I think that the most important is respect. I say this because if you have no respect as a leader then people aren't …show more content…

It should also not be used if the morale of you class is low, because that is the last thing that they wont if they are already feeling down.

The second style is the democratic approach. The democratic style of leadership is when the leader involves the students into the decision making and how the lesson is run. The good points of the democratic style are that it keeps the students involved. If the leader wants to see how the students like things to be done or if the leader wants to see how good the students are at leading. The democratic approach is not good if there is a lot of people in the class or if there is only a short time for the lesson to take place. This is because if the lesson is short then you want to get the lesson going. If you ask for the students input then you wont get started for a while.

The third style of leadership is the Lassez-faire approach. The Lassez-faire approach is not really leading. In this approach the students basically get to do what they want to do. They get little direction from the leader. This is an effective style to use when you are working with very good students (ability), when the students really want to do well for themselves and if you can trust the students. It should not be used if there are people in the class with limited experience, a big group or if there is difficult people

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