Введение в профессиональную коммуникацию

Раздел 3. Введение в профессиональную коммуникацию

Тема 21. Leadership

Цель темы - ознакомить обучаемых с одним из разделов бизнес - курса «Лидерство» как необходимое условие успеха бизнеса любой компании. В результате успешного изучения данной темы обучаемые должны: •  знать разновидности лидерства (лидер-компания, лидер компании), способы выдвижения лидера, качества, характерные лидеру, методы общения лидера с коллективом; •  уметь правильно использовать свои качества лидера, анализировать различные ситуации и модели поведения в общении с коллективом, объяснить, что делает человека лидером и определять лидера в коллективе, использовать фразы – клише, придаточные предложения, изученные в данной теме для дискуссий; •  быть ознакомлены с информацией о некоторых всемирно известных лидерах крупных компаний, способами сделать обанкротившуюся компанию успешной при использовании умелого руководства.

Оглавление

Leadership. 1

Leadership among companies. 2

Qualities of a leader 2

Choice of a leader of a company. 2

Test yourself 4

Библиография. 4

Рассмотрению подлежат следующие вопросы:

•  Что такое лидерство и его разнообразие

•  Лидерство среди компаний

•  Качества лидера

•  Выбор лидера

•  Успешное лидерство

•  Мотивация подчиненных

Leadership

Leadership is the position of being a leader, that is the person who directs a team, organization, country. All people are born with certain qualities, and certain genetic traits. But many people have re-invented themselves several times as they have gone into new situations. People are a certain kind of person when they are in school. Then as people grow up they go into new situations and become somebody else. People who were never leaders in school become great business leaders later. Mostly people are made the leaders, but using the qualities, which they were born with. There are two types of leadership that are considered in this topic: leadership among the companies and a leader of the team.

Leadership among companies

Leadership may be among some organizations in different branches of economy and a leader of the team in one certain organization. There are some leader’s names whose leader companies well-known: Bill Gates is Microsoft, Anita Roddick in Body-shop, Richard Branson in Virgin. They are leaders not only of their companies but of public opinion.

The leader of a successful company has to make a choice: to formulate the strategy, to decide doing one thing rather than others, with resources that are by definition limited. The people who can make the right choices about how to use those resources are highly rewarded. Falling companies require another kind of leadership: the type of a leader who can turn them round. This type of a leader isn’t able to manage other types of change, preferring to move on to another company in crisis.

Qualities of a leader

Leaders of different companies and teams require different qualities, but there are only a few simple qualities that cut across all requirements, those are courage imagination and empathy, having the ability to put yourself in other people’s positions and understand how they feel about situations and ideas. There are also some points of view that leaders should have some positive qualities. A leader should be:

•  Passionate

•  Driven

•  Energetic

•  Motivating

•  Open

•  Informal

•  Straight

•  Accessible

A leader shouldn’t be moderated, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy.

The best business leaders are probably the ones who have had a great business idea and have seen it through to fruition.

A successful leader is a difficult choice for a company and team.

Choice of a leader of a company

Now the choice of a leader demands much greater scrutiny over who is chosen and how. This is a part of the process of recognition that companies are led by teams of key managers. The qualities of a chief executive cannot be seen in isolation, there must be the right chemistry between the chief executive and other top people, and they must have the right mix of complementary skills. If the leader has been chosen successfully, the company or a team will communicate successfully, too.

The successful leader and his team motivate each other. The leader has to communicate well with his team in a clear way. And then in return they inspire him or her to think more adventurously and carefully about how to stimulate them and how to build a better business. So it is a sort of a circular operation.

No discussion can be hold without using Grammar which is typical for different situations of communication. Defining clauses, which provide essential information about the subject or object of a sentence, are used in this topic. Without this information the sentence often does not make sense or has a different meaning, for example:

Managers who trust their staff often become good leaders.

The person I spoke to was very helpful.

The president, who is 64, is retiring next year.

The people we employ are very highly qualified.

Organizations that are flexible can respond to change.

There are some words and expressions which are used for describing this topic:

·  leadership

·  branches of economy

·  to embody

·  to pilot

·  entrepreneur

·  founder

·  visionary leadership qualities

·  issue

·  public opinion

·  bureaucratic and conservative

·  a cliché

·  to make choices

·  resources

·  highly rewarded

·  shareholders

·  to reject

·  arrangement

·  scrutiny

·  recognition

·  the right chemistry

·  the chief executive

·  top managers

·  the right mix of complementary skills

·  courage, imagination, empathy

·  fruition

·  to inspire

·  to stimulate

·  a circular operation

·  genetic traits

·  to get slotted in.

There are some adjectives, which describe the traits of a leader; NEGATIVE; (antonyms are in the brackets), ruthless (gentle), uncaring (caring), impulsive (cautious), lunatic (sane), aggressive.

POSITIVE; decisive, charismatic (uncharismatic), motivating, adventurous (unadventurous), open (closed), informal (formal), passionate (dispassionate), flexible (inflexible), energetic (lethargic), straight (crooked), accessible (inaccessible), moderate (immoderate), balanced (unbalanced), careful (careless), thoughtful (thoughtless).

As a result of studying this topic the students are offered to value themselves as a potential leader, to discuss the qualities of a leader, to compare the possibility to be a leader woman among men and on the contrary a leader man among women, to role play the meeting as a leader of the team.

Test yourself

1.  What kinds of leaders do you know?

2.  What well-known names of company-leaders can you remember?

3.  What do falling companies need to become successful?

4.  Is every type of leader suited to managing of any company?

5.  What are the ways to choose a leader of the company?

6.  Enumerate some simple qualities of a leader.

7.  What are the methods of motivation of the employees, which a successful leader should use?

8.  What is a circular operation?

9.  Are leaders born or made?

Библиография

1.  Sue Robbins. First Insights into Business. Student’s Book. Pearson Education Limited, 2005.

2.  Kevin Manton. First Insights into Business. Workbook. Pearson Education Limited, 2005.

3.  David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent. Market Leader, Pre-intermediate Business English. Course Book. Pearson Education Limited, 2005.

4.  David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent. Market Leader, Intermediate Business English. Course Book. Pearson Education Limited, 2005.

5.  David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent. Market Leader, Intermediate Business English. Practice File. Pearson Education Limited, 2005.

6.  David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent. Market Leader, Pre-intermediate Business English. Practice File. Pearson Education Limited, 2005.

7.  Vicki Hollet. Business Opportunities. Oxford University press, 1995.

8.  Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Pearson Education Limited, 2004.

9.  Adrian Pilbeam. Market Leader. International Management. Pearson Education Limited, 2000.