October 31, 2023

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 Leadership model. Watching this video is worth

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October 24, 2023

Leadership Behaviors: Task and Relationship Focus In the middle of the 20th Century, researchers turned their attention from how leaders are, to what to what they do. With a suitable behavioral theory of leadership, we can more easily train leaders. They found the key concepts are task and relationship. Watching this video is worth 2

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October 17, 2023

Traits Models of Leadership There are many approaches to modeling leadership. But, perhaps the oldest assumes that leaders are people born with a specific set of qualities, or traits. Today, we still recognize that there are some traits that can make us better leaders. If only we could agree on which! Watching this video is

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October 11, 2023

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. Watching this video is worth 1 Management Courses CPD Point*. 🔎 See below for details Introduction

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October 3, 2023

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. Watching this video is worth 3

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