Understanding Leadership

1. Project

2.  Leadership is basically an art of leading and motivating a
group of people for achievement of some common goals.
 A leader is a torchbearer who provides confidence and
guidance to a group of people.
 Leads followers towards achievement by motivating
them.
 A leader is an optimistic person with self-awareness &
clear visions.
 Effectiveness & decision making are the main attributes a
good leader must have.
 A leader must be clear and open to his followers and
along-with leading them he should also educate them.

3. Participation in sports being a student teaches following benefits and
values:
 It provides more confidence, physical fitness, self respect and
qualities of leadership.
 It teaches discipline and value of struggle for the achievement of
goals.
 In the team, the sports teach the value of team work and working
together to establish and achieve a common mission.
 Hence, for me the sportsmanship a great way of gaining: leadership,
discipline, hard-work and team-work, intelligence and loyalty, and
creativity.

4. There are two types of leadership:
 Expressive leadership: Such leadership style works to keep
cooperative and friendly relationships, and ensures the combined
welfare of the group.
 Instrumental Leadership: Such leadership is goal-oriented and
concerned with attaining the projected missions.
 Each leadership style has its own benefits and effectiveness.
 Understanding the working style makes it easier to understand
nature of work and improves the effectiveness.
 I prefer myself to be an expressive leader because achievement of
the goal becomes easier with team work. A friendly environment is
also important.

5. Being a leader I focus on realizing my responsibilities and play role
accordingly. There are four major responsibilities towards the team:
 Positive peer model: Presenting a positive role model.
 Strong motivation: Providing them proper and strong motivation.
 Effective communication: Communicate with them effectively.
 Team Cohesion: Keeping them united and together for team work.

6. A good leader is a role model for the whole group.
 A good leader doesn’t only talks but acts. He faces challenges and
works hard to present himself as a role model for others to follow
him.
 Leader takes stand, walks on the right path and guides the followers
and make the strategies for the challenges.
 After making strategies, their implementation is also the duty of the
leader.

7.  In a leadership communication plays vital role. There are different
ways to communicate with the team effectively.
 Verbal communication is used to convey the messages and deliver
the ideas and strategies for the mission, in the form of speeches.
 Non-verbal communication involves the actions of the leader and the
body language. A good leader must communicate and give
guidance with his actions too.
 Along with the verbal and non-verbal communication, listening to
them is also a form of communication. It helps understand and
cooperate with each other.

8.  Motivation is defined as an emotional and social reason or force for
acting or behaving in a specific way.
 A leader presents the mission statement. Then he encourages
people to work as a team for the achievement.
 Then after that, he motivates his teammates with effective
communication and his actions.
 A leaders first accepts his own shortcomings and weaknesses, and
works to eradicate them. After that he makes the team realize theirs.
 And then motivates them to overcome those shortcomings and
achieve the objectives.

9.  Team work is important to attain the unity and accomplish the
mission.
 Team-work with good motivation then results
in the form of positive outcomes.
 Everyone in the team possesses the equal importance.
You have to support everyone’s opinion.
 So, the team building and chemistry, and unity of teammates matters
a lot and bringing it to practice is the role of a leader.

10.  In a team there come many tough challenges. These challenges
could be internal or external.
 Being a leader, I have to make sure that all of my teammates are
satisfied and are cooperative with each other so that no internal
problems could occur.
 A good leader has the ability to work under-pressure.
 To overcome hardships and hurdles specific strategies are made by
leaders.
 The decision making is the duty of leader but he must be careful to
see that whether everyone is happy and agrees with the decision or
not.

11.  What was overall impression of your experience with captains course?
 The course was really interesting and educational; teaching a lot of
good things.
 What did you think were some of the most important take-home
messages of the Captains Course?
 To convey something you yourself must pay attention carefully too.
 An effective leader keeps the personal interests away and brings the
common interests of the group on the top.
 By acting on all of above qualities a good leader can take his team
towards the accomplishment of the goal.
 Quality leadership is really important for team development and the
achievement of missions.