WHO IS A LEADER

In democratic groups leadership is diffused. Everyone is a leader who can contribute the part that is needed. Those persons are leaders who:

1. On occasion, initiate new ideas or activities.

2. Help the group define its goals or direct its course toward its goals.

3. Keep communication channels open by asking for a definition of terms.

4. Seek to utilize the abilities of every member of the group.

5. Attempt to keep the atmosphere permissive.

6. Encourage participation.

7. Realize that progress is based upon differences and make a real attempt to have all sides of a problem considered.

8. Pull the ideas together into a summary.

9. Seek a fact or give a fact or opinion.

10. Offer to give ground, admit their errors or yield their status without fear.

11. Arrange the facilities.

12. Speak the general opinion of the group.

13. Act as official recorders of group action.

14. Compare or contrast facts and set up standards for the group to achieve.

15. Record and analyze the growth process going on within the group in order that it may understand its rate of integration or disintegration.

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