To understand how followers’ perception of leadership style effectiveness was
related to end-of-race overall performance, participant evaluations from each boat
were considered together to place each boat on a continuum of overall crew perception
of leadership style effectiveness against overall end-of-race overall boat performance.
Five skippers were rated by all participants on their boats as exhibiting a leadership
style which was “less effective”. One skipper was evaluated as exhibiting a “moderately
effective” leadership style and four skippers were evaluated as exhibiting moderately
to highly effective leadership styles (“most effective” on our rating scale).
Agreement among participants from each boat of this second set of five boats was