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"What factors contribute to make a good leader and how might your styles of leadership vary to be successful when involved in individual, racquet and team activities?"
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jo"What factors contribute to make a good leader and how might your styles of leadership vary to be successful when involved in individual, racquet and team activities?" Good leaders can come in many forms. Leadership in sport is the process of influencing team members to work hard towards team goals. Leaders can either be task-oriented or person-oriented. Task-oriented leaders are most interested in training, performance and winning. Person-oriented leaders are more interested in the relationships between team members. Fiedler identified these types of leader and in Fiedler's model, "Leadership effectiveness is the result of interaction between the style of the leader and the characteristics of the environment in which the leader works." Great sporting leaders are both, but lean more towards being task-oriented as will be shown later. Leaders can be a person within the team, the captain, or a coach. They can be prescribed leaders where they have been put into...
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