Assignment 2 Brenda M Healy
Grand Canyon University: LDR 600 Leadership Styles and Development 7/4/2014

Based on the models of Katz and Mumford, The two do have different styles of coaching. Katz used a skills approach the key concept is of a leader is Mobilizing innovation and change, Managing people and task, Communication and managing self. Coach K conceptualizes has creativity, risk and visioning the future. Coach Knight has concept ability, takes risk, and visioning the future he lacks creativity. Coach Knight has all the qualities of managing people and task. Coach Knight has coordinating, planning, controlling, and organizing. However he does not have good decisions making he is controlling vs leading, he creates conflict and manages vs leading. Coach K has all interpersonal skills needed for communication where as coach Knight is lacking listening he does have the written and oral skills to establish goals for his vision. Finally managing self again coach K has all the qualities used in keeping himself calm and professional while being all business during the games. Again coach knight is lacking qualities needed he has difficult maintaining his emotions and does have high technical thinking but low personal management. Using the above skills the two coaches fit into the middle management which is the strongest type because they need technical, human and conceptual skills. When using Mumfords and colleagues skill based model. , Mumsford and colleagues formulated a skill based model of leadership have five components: competencies, individual attributes, leadership outcomes, career experiences and environmental influences. (Northouse p.48) the first three components are essential to the skill based model.