Psychological factors affecting 
        performance
        Sports Psychology
          Leadership 
       Learning Objectives
         Learning Objective: 
  Understand how leaders can affect group performance
         Learning Outcomes:
   All: Describe the characteristics of an effective leader 
   and the styles, theories and Chelladurai’s model of 
          sports leadership
    Most: Explain the theories of sports leadership
    Some: Apply the theories to a variety of sporting 
       examples and evaluate them.
              Key Terms
   • Emergent leader
   • Prescribed leader
   • Autocratic leader
   • Democratic leader
   • Laissez-faire leader
   • Trait perspective
   • Social learning theory
   • Interactionist theory
   • Chelladurai’s multi-dimensional model of sports 
    leadership
              Key Terms
   • Emergent leader
   • Prescribed leader
   • Autocratic leader
   • Democratic leader
   • Laissez-faire leader
   • Trait perspective
   • Social learning theory
   • Interactionist theory
   • Chelladurai’s multi-dimensional model of sports 
    leadership
    What makes an effective leader
  • Good communication skills
  • High motivation
  • Enthusiasm
  • Having a clear goal or vision of what needs to be achieved 
  • Empathy (an ability to put yourself in the position of 
   others to understand how they feel)
  • Being good at the sport themselves or having a 
   comprehensive knowledge of the sport
  • Charisma – this is a quality that is difficult to analyse, but 
   the person who has charisma is hard to ignore, and has a 
   certain presence and great powers of persuasion