The history of mankind shows us that since ancient times, humans who live in groups have known the term leadership. Leadership touches on various aspects of human life, such as ways of working, neighbors, society, and even the state. How important leadership is and how much humans need it, until some people argue that the world or humanity in this world is essentially only determined by a few people, namely those who have the status of leaders, then what is leadership?
(Sejarah umat manusia memperlihatkan kepada kita bahwa sejak zaman dahulu, manusia yang hidup berkelompok sudah mengenal istilah kepemimpinan. Kepemimpinan menyentuh berbagai segi kehidupan manusia seperti cara berkarya, bertetangga, bermasyarakat bahkan bernegara. Betapa pentingnya kepemimpinan dan betapa manusia membutuhkannya, sampai ada yang berpendapat bahwa dunia atau umat manusia di dunia ini pada hakikatnya hanya ditentukan oleh beberapa orang saja, yaitu yang berstatus sebagai pemimpin, lalu apakah kepemimpinan itu?)
The importance of leadership in the world of education includes guiding a group so that the group's common goals are achieved. Leadership is a number of actions or processes of one or more people in using their influence, authority and power over other people, namely all components in the educational institution they lead to move the social system to achieve the goals of a good social system in the educational institution.
Leaders have great responsibilities, because of their roles such as the ability to make decisions and skills in creating new ideas as society demands. Being not only required to master various leadership theories, but also to be able to apply them in the institution. Several principles that a leader must have in carrying out his leadership depend on the things he has been ordered to do.
First: Basic Concepts of Leadership
Etymologically, "leadership" comes from the word "leader" in English, leader, the verb form of to lead, which means to lead. The leader is part of the symbol of an organization's identity, without a leader there will be no clear organization, it could even be said that there will be no organization, of course the best organizations have the best leaders based on appropriate moral values, culture and role models. with rules, agreements, abilities, styles, approaches and leadership behavior.
Terry defines leadership as "Leadeship is the relationship in which one person, or the leader, influences others to work together willingly on related taks to attain that which the leader desires," Leadership is the relationship that exists within a person or leader in influencing other people to work together consciously in task relationships to achieve the leader's desired goals
Second: Theory, Methods and Techniques of Leadership Approach
Leadership Theory
In general, there are several theories about leadership, namely: (1) Advantage Theory; This theory states that a person will become a leader if he has advantages over his followers. (2) Trait theory, this theory states that a leader is good if; he has positive qualities so that his followers can become good followers too. (3) Heredity theory, this theory states that a person can become a leader because of heredity or by inheritance. (4) Charismatic theory, namely that a person can become a leader because; has charisma or has a very strong appeal. (5) Talent theory, states that leaders are born because of the talents they have; and (6) Social theory, stating that everyone can become a leader.