Leaders, Leading & the Led Course In this course, we examine leadership in organisations. We first of all highlight that leadership is one of the key managerial roles & assert the importance to organisations of effective leadership. Leadership skills & the sources of a leader's power are then explored & we make clear that formal management position is just one of these. The sources of a leader's power are, in fact, broken down into personal power sources & organisational power sources, & to help clarify this distinction, we discuss the notions of transactional leadership & transformational leadership. Finally, we present & evaluate two important approaches to leadership effectiveness: the universal traits approach & the situation-contingent traits approach. In terms of the latter, we give an appreciation of Fiedler's extensive work in this area. By the end of the session, you should be able to: define the basic process of leadership. understand the relationship between leadership & management. explain key leadership skills. identify the sources of a leader's power. distinguish between transactional & transformational leaders. appreciate the universal personality traits approach to leadership. appreciate the situation-contingent personality traits approach to leadership.