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10-Step Leadership Process: A Simple Model for How to Lead
In this video, I offer you a ten-step Leadership Process.
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What is Leader-Member Exchange Theory? And Should You Use LMX Theory?
Leader-Member Exchange Theory is deeply problematic. In fact, I don’t like it. But it may be a model you want to adopt. It is certainly a theory you need to understand, so you can avoid its Dark Side.
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Leadership Traits, Roles, and Styles: Three Types of Leadership Model
There are many conflicting models of leadership. How can you reconcile them all – they cannot all be right. Can they? In fact, they approach leadership in different ways.
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Action Centered Leadership - A Roles-based or Functional Leadership Model
Roles-based approaches to leadership focus not on the leader’s traits nor their behavior. Instead, they focus on their functions: what they need to do, to lead. And none is better, nor more accessible, than John Adair’s Action Centered...
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Goleman's 6 Leadership Styles - A Styles Models of Leadership
We’ve seen models of leadership based on personal traits, individual behaviors, and the roles we need to fulfill. Another approach relates to the way we lead: that is, the style we adopt.
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What is Transformational Leadership?
Transformational leadership is a story in three parts. But those parts are closely integrated, so buckle up for a longer video than usual.
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The Blake & Mouton Leadership Grid
Robert Blake and Jane Mouton took the idea of task versus relationship focus and turned it into a full-blown model of five leadership styles: their Leadership Grid.
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What is Visionary Leadership?
Visionary leadership is transformative. We could argue that it is one aspect of transformational leadership. But I want to consider it as a specific style, because we find many leaders who seem aim for this style as their default.
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The Fiedler Contingency Theory of Leadership Effectiveness
Fred Fiedler developed a contingency model of leadership that suggests a leader’s effectiveness is contingent on the fit between their leadership style and the situation they face. 🧭 This video is part of course module number 3.11.3 🏢...
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Tannenbaum & Schmidt: The Leadership Continuum
Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s Leadership Continuum is a situational leadership model, offering a range of styles and ways to select among them. 🧭 This video is part of course module number 3.11.3 🏢 Program 3: Managing and Leading Individuals...
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Robert House and Path Goal Theory [Situational Leadership]
Path-Goal Theory is a contingency model of leadership. Like other situational leadership models, the approach you take to leading is dependent on the situation. In this case, you look at the people you are leading and the nature of the...
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What is Peter Senge's Learning Organization?
Peter Senge wrote best-selling book, ‘The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization‘. This book has been rated by Harvard Business Review as one of the seminal management books. And his big idea was the Learning...
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David McClelland and Three Motivational Needs - Content Theories of Motivation
For my money, David McClelland gave us one of the most useful models of motivation, for use in the workplace. McClelland identified three motivational needs. Each of these allows us to motivate different people to do the same task, by...
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Rensis Likert and High Producing Managers - Process Models of Motivation
Rensis Likert studied different systems of management and the things that 'high-producing managers' do to achieve the results they get. His conclusions build a helpful model of motivation and how to get the best from the people who work...
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Basics of Motivation: Building Morale in your Team
Morale is like Motivation applied across a whole team. And building team morale is an important part of your role as manager, supervisor, or team leader. So, what can you do to build morale in your team? That's what we will look at in...
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What is a Team?
What is a Team? This is the first video in a new course on teams and team-working. So we need to start at the beginning and establish what we mean by the term 'team'.
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Establishing Team Behavior Norms - Team Development
Team behavior norms are the unwritten rules that team members follow. Establishing your team behavior norms is an important step in moving your team to high performance mode.
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John Whitmore's Team Development Model
He may be most famous for his GROW Model of coaching, but John Whitmore's Team Development Model is a valuable way to understand how groups form into teams.
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What is Cog's Ladder of Group Experiences? - Team Development
Cog’s Ladder of Group Experiences is a model of group development that expands on the Tuckman Model we looked at in an earlier video.
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Teamwork: Essentials of Working as a Team
You want to encourage good teamwork. You know how valuable it can be. But what are the essential disciplines a team leader needs, to get the best team working from your team?
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Teamwork: Protecting Your Team
Protecting your team is a part of your role as a leader. To create teamwork, you need to serve your team, so they can get on with working together, as a team. and defending them from the things that will get in their way is part of that...
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Teamwork: Facilitating Effective Team Working
Your job is not ‘to do’. It’s to ‘help your team to do’. And facilitating effective team working means making it easy for your team to do.
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Teamwork: Leading Effective Team Reviews
You will, of course, be holding one-to-one performance reviews regularly. But, if you want good teamwork, you also need regular team reviews. This is where you get your team together to assess how your team working is going and what...
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Teamwork: Team Celebrations
Team celebrations are not just a ‘nice-to-have’ add on to teamworking. If you want to encourage great teamwork, then celebrating your team’s successes is a necessary part of the process.