Leadership style
Featured in the The Team Leader's Development Manual training manual
By Mike Fenwick
Category: People Management and Motivation
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
This training activity examines the idea that ‘leadership style should be needs led, not personality driven.’ In order to operate effectively as a team leader, it is essential to have at your disposal the full range of leadership styles. The situation, the individuals concerned and the effect you wish to achieve will influence the style used at any given time.
You begin this training activity by inviting the participants to consider three role models to establish the principle of different styles of leadership being used in different situations to produced different effects. You go on to describe how these three styles are associated with three points on a style continuum – those of direct, consult and refer. Next, you introduce the full continuum with its seven different styles – direct, confirm, persuade, consult, participate, advise and refer. The participants then discuss each of these styles in turn, and consider examples of how each one could be incorporated into their own leadership role. Participants are now ready to take the style continuum back to their workplace to use as an assessment tool over a set period of time – two weeks is suggested. They use it to plot the way they lead their teams in a variety of situations, and to build up a scatter graph of most frequently used styles. This graph can then be used to consider whether a change or a more varied use of style would be advantageous.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to introduce participants to a wide range of different styles a leader can use – each having its own place, depending on circumstances and the effect the leader needs to create.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:50:00 |
| No of Pages: | 16 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers either as part of a management development programme, in which case it should be used quite early on in that programme, or as a single exercise to develop managers who may have become used to using a single style and need to broaden their perspective. It can also be used on programmes on assertiveness, communication, considering colleagues, creative thinking, decision making, developing others, influencing others, leadership, motivation, planning, problem solving, and teamwork.
Download the training activity, Leadership style as featured in the Fenman training manual; The Team Leader's Development Manual