Lesson 3: Successful Strategies for Mentoring and Being Mentored

What is this lesson about?

"Leadership is such a primal, natural part of human behavior, that breaking it down into something academic and quasi-scientific seems a little out of place, like dissecting an ice cream sundae with an electron microscope."

Understanding Leadership Theory gives one an understanding that it is "part social science, part psychology, and part organizational theory. It takes a little emotional awareness, and a little philosophical groundwork."

This lesson will guide educators to the importance of leadership theories and their impacts in the classroom.

Focus Objective

In this lesson, learners will understand Leadership Theories such as:

•Trait Theories

•Contingency Theories

•Behavioral Theories

•Power and Influence Theories

Introduction

Click to watch this inspirational video message about Mentoring! [1]

Reading

Read the following description of Leadership Theories: [[2]]

Key Leadership Theories: Helping identify Areas to Improve Your Leadership Skills

Since the early 20th Century, business leaders and psychologists have tried to identify key leadership theories and models to reflect what exactly makes a good leader and what a true leader is. How he/she behaves and how they motivate employees to success has been studied endlessly.

As you would expect, the more people that study a concept, the more theories result, so this article picks out the key leadership theories that have formed the backbone of our understanding of leadership. More importantly, these theories can be used to help develop your skills as a leader.

Continue reading at http://www.educational-business-articles.com/key-leadership-theories/