Leadership Challange 2

1. The assigned leader was Sam Wilkes
2. Patty Webster took the role of leader in the group due to her knowledge of line dancing. It seemed as though expert power allowed her to assume the leadership role.
3. Everyone in the group worked together and influenced the group in their own way. We each chipped ideas in through email and the end result was a success.
4. Patty had the most techinical skills since she had some experience with line dancing. Since we were all able to learn the dance, we developed the technical skills necessary to do the dance.
5. Jason and Sam were the main people with human skills as they coordinated what we were doing and did organization.
6. She was more concerned with the task
7. Determination and hardwork were the most important strengths. The determination to find a good dance and coordinate it with the rest of the group were imperative to completing the task.
8. I learned that leadership is less about the traits that a person posesses and more about who decides to take inititive and work hard to lead. Anyone who works hard can develop good ideas and encourage people to work together. It is important that a leader is respected, and i respect people who work hard to organize tasks and encourage people to input their ideas. This activity also presented different types of power. The assigned leader had Legitimate power, but the people in each group who knew the most about a subject or had the connection to the expert had expert power.