... encourage players and give the sense of comfort in playing alongside. Poor leadership will lead dissent, frustration and lack of motivation resulting in a poor performance. This means that the traits that a person is born with may hold the key to them being a successful leader or not. This is supported by research that suggests that it is not one section of traits that show a leaders qualities, but a mixture of a number of these. From what I have found in some more up-to-date this theory states that the behavior and approach to each situation needs to be different, for example, a good coach will be hard and strict with some players but may need a softer more encouraging approach to others, whilst maintaining a fair and supportive role to all people in the team. In most teams, the leaders come in two forms, emergent leaders, those who come from ...

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