Leadership and management.

Great leaders, it is said, “get extraordinary things done in organizations by inspiring and motivating others toward a common purpose.” To succeed as a leader, therefore, a manager must be good at dealing with all aspects of motivation, communication, interpersonal relations, teamwork, and group dynamics. We can identify three essentials of leadership:

1.Establishing a sense of mission.

2.Accepting leadership as a responsibility, not a rank.

3.Earning and keeping the trust of followers.

The foundation of effective leadership is defining and establishing a sense of mission. A good leader sets the goals, priorities, and standards. A good leader keeps them all clear and visible, and maintains them. In Peter Drucker’s words, “The leader’s first task is to be the trumpet that sounds a clear sound.”

An effective leader sees leadership as a responsibility rather than a rank. Good leaders surround themselves with talented persons. They are not afraid to develop strong and capable subordinates. And they do not blame others when things go wrong. As Drucker says, “The buck stops here” is still a good adage to remember.

An effective leader earns and maintains the trust of others. The key here is the leader’s personal integrity. The followers of good leaders trust the leader, even if they do not necessarily like him or her. This means they believe the leader means what is being said and that actions will be consistent with what is being said. Using Drucker’s words once again: “Effective leadership …is not on being clever; is based primarily on being consistent.”

Vocabulary.

1. to inspire - вдохновлять, стимулировать

2.therefore - поэтому, следовательно

3.aspect - сторона (вопроса) , аспект

4.essential - основные элементы

5.sense of mission - чувство призвания

6.to define - устанавливать, очерчивать

7.trumpet - труба

8.adage - афоризм, изречение

9.integrity - порядочность

10.consistent - согласующийся, последовательный

3.Составьте аннотацию к тексту.

Text 10.

1.1.Объясните, как вы понимаете слово «career».

1.2.Найдите и выпишите из текста слова, которые означают:

a) a set of related things that happen

b) a chance to do something

c) the act of doing something that is promised

d) thinking carefully about something before

making a judgment about its value

2.1.Прочтите текст и назовите все этапы планирования карьеры.

2.2.Работа в парах. Обсудите план пересказа текста с товарищем.

Career planning and development.

Formally defined, a career is a sequence of jobs and work pursuits constituting what a person does for living. For many of us, a career begins on an anticipatory basis with our formal education. From there it progresses into an initial job choice and any number of subsequent choices that may involve changes in task assignments, employing organizations, and even occupations.

Careers inevitably mix together the needs of people and organizations. Organizations are dependent on the performance of their people, and people are dependent on organizations to provide jobs and career opportunities.

Career planning is the process of systematically matching career goals and individual capabilities with opportunities for their fulfillment. It involves answering such questions as: “Who am I?” “Where do I want to go?” “How do I get there?”

A basic framework for formal career planning includes five steps. They begin with personal assessment and progress through analysis of opportunities, selection of career objectives, and implementation of strategies, until the point of evaluation is reached. Then the process is recycled as necessary to allow constructive revision of the career plan over time. Success in each of these steps entails a good deal of self – awareness and frank assessment. The message is clear – a successful career begins with sufficient insight to make good decisions about matching personal needs and capabilities with job opportunities over time.