Activity 2.1 | ECE Leadership: Role & Characteristics

Democratic (participative) leadership

A Collective Approach

A democratic leadership approach allows everyone an opportunity to contribute to the decision-making process. Democratic leaders are still the decision-makers, but they offer others an opinion and encourage contributions from others.  

Appropriate and effective when:

• A team or group has lots of collective knowledge and ideas and collaboration is beneficial to the system. 

Take a few minutes and consider:

In what ways could involving my team or ECE community partners in decision-making processes enhance our program?