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Angeline Mbida 

Group leadership 

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A group leader is a catalyst  for growth and change in the group. There are are some characteristic qualities that a leader of the group must possess such as genuineness,  courage, goodwill, caring, openness,  non-defensiveness in coping with awareness  to identify  a client's pain, self-awareness,  commitment  to self-care, sens of humor. A group leader also has to develop foster skills ( Jacobs et al., 2016). The important group leadership skills are several such as active listening,  facilitating,  reflecting, summarizing, interpreting, linking, questioning, supporting, assessing,  modeling, evaluating, initiating and terminating. A competent counselor must have ability to be a good listener. When a counselor uses an active listening, he or she is trying to make the client to feel heard and understood. According to the textbook " the leader can share responsibility to a very large degree, but he or she can never abdicate his or her responsibility "( Jacobs et al., 2016, p. 23). A leader has multiple functions such as providing emotional  stimulation; the leader can also serve as a model through self-disclosure. For example, in the middle school group, a leader serve as a person with ideas and information on how to make things go easier. A leader can use his or her power to influence and motivate the members of the group. The group leader uses a variety of strategies  such as clarifying, asking the members of the group  to elaborate,  repeating a certain communication  or may suggest that the group members limit their discussion to a certain topic. The group leader also has some responding skills which means that the leader responds to communication that involves contents that are not connected  or benefited to the goals of the group and the leader can exert influence over subsequent  communication patterns. By talking about the leader's functions, one can define that leadership as the ability to make strategic decisions and use communication to mobilize a group toward achieving a common goal.

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Jacobs. E. E., Schimmel, C. J., Masson, R. L. & Harvill, R. L. (2016).  Group counseling: strategies  & skills (8th ed.) Boston, MA: Cengage. 

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