Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

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Fexible l control
Strong team
Strong links
to goals
A team with a leader
Figure 1.4.2: leadership styles
Goal of a
team
An effective leader with a team ensures that together:
They understand their goal or mandate and keep it in focus
A leader with a team
They focus on both the work and the team member’s welfare
Guides the team to fulfill its purposes and goals
Absolute control
Loose association
Teamwork
Loose link to goals
S/he is a step ahead of the team in vision but in step with the team implementing group
plans.
Work through Exercise 1.4.6 and make suggestions for the development of the leaders of
your team.
Exercise 1.4.6: Group Work
Objective
1. To discuss the effects of leadership
qualities in individual volunteers
Time: 10 minutes
Questions
1. What qualities have you observed
in yourselves as leaders that have
helped your teams?
2. Which ones have retarded the team’s
work?
3. Suggest ways to use this information
in your team leadership.
Instruction to the Facilitator
1. Help team members/volunteer
answer these questions truthfully
2. Let them choose one thing they
will implement as leaders when
they go back
3. Tell them they will be accountable
to the CHO on this plan
4 Discuss the roles that you as team
members should play in working
with your leaders.
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