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Basic Skills For Group
Leaders
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Chapter 6
3. Clarification and Questioning
4. Summarizing
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1. Active Listening
2. Reflection
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Specific Leadership Skills
5. Linking-- pointing out similarities between
or among members’ concerns and issues
6. Mini-Lecturing and Information-Giving
Make it interesting.
Make it relevant.
Make it short (usually no more than 5–8 minutes).
Make it energizing.
Make sure you have current, correct, and objective
information
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Continued
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Specific Leadership Skills
9. Modeling and Self-Disclosure
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7. Encouraging and Supporting
8. Tone-Setting
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Continued
10. Use of Eyes
a. Scanning For Nonverbal Cues
b. Getting Members to Look at Other Members
c. Drawing Out Members
d. Cutting Off Members
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Continued
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11. Use of Voice
a. Use of Voice to Help Set the Tone
b. Use of Voice to Energize the Group
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Continued
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Specific Leadership Skills
12. Use of the Leader’s Energy
13. Identifying Allies-- members who
understand the purpose of the group and
are likely to be helpful
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Specific Leadership Skills
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Advantages of coleading
– one leader can think while other is
leading
– support and modeling for a beginning
leader
– can offer varying points of view
– coleader can bring specific
information on topics
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Coleading
– different goals for members
– competition between leaders
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Disadvantages
– possibly incompatible styles
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Coleading
Coleaders need to set aside time for
planning and processing each session
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Coleaders need to like and respect each
other
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Coleading
then alternate primary leadership role throughout
a session according to a topic or an exercise…
coleader in supportive role
Shared leading: coleaders plan together
and lead jointly, careful to maintain a
common focus and direction
Apprentice model: more experienced
leader models for a novice leader
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Alternate leading: coleaders plan together,
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Models of Coleading
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Homogeneous Membership
Diverse Membership
Multicultural Needs and Coleadership
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Multicultural Groups