14: Team Leadership Theories

Team leadership theory examines how leadership functions within groups rather than focusing solely on one individual. This chapter discusses the distinctions between groups and teams, including their formation, size, development, purpose, and examine when a group evolves into a team. It also identifies common approaches to team leadership, such as leader and follower characteristics, behaviors, tasks, relationships, and outcomes. Exploring how each person in a team is critical to achieving goals is discussed. The history and context around the team leadership theories, definitions of the theory, and strengths and opportunities of the theory is also included in this chapter.