Team Leadership Continuum [Tannenbaum & Schmidt]
Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H Schmidt set out a range of leadership behaviours. This model gives us a powerful team leadership continuum.
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This video is part of course module number 4.3.3
Program 4: Managing & Leading Groups
Course 3: Teams
Section 3: Team Leadership
Other videos in this section include:
– Team Leadership and the Tuckman Group Development Stages https://youtu.be/qtwMA6EQRKo
– Servant Leadership: Leading Your Team in the Tuckman Performing Stage https://youtu.be/_YEKWXbmMp8
– John Adair’s Action Centered Leadership https://youtu.be/uVmjr1Jp4YA
– LEAD Your Team: 4 Team Leadership Priorities https://youtu.be/PERd_fnUalQ
– Four Quadrants of Team Leadership https://youtu.be/kvEWWST-oh8
– Daniel Goleman’s 6 Leadership Styles for Team Leaders https://youtu.be/xN7sjQYNkhg
– Handling Team Problems https://youtu.be/-Zfy3Ef8P_0
LESSON NOTES
1958 Harvard Business Review article: Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H Schmidt set out a range of leadership behaviors.
7 distinct stages on a continuum, from telling team members their decision, through selling their idea and consulting on the problem, to handing over decision-making.
They also describe how a manager can decide how to lead and choose which of the styles will work best. They offer 3 considerations:
● Forces in the team leader
Your values and style, and your assessment of the risk
● Forces in the team-members
Your assessment of their readiness and enthusiasm to assume responsibility
● Forces in the situation
Time pressure, the group’s effectiveness, organizational culture
THE SEVEN BEHAVIOURS
1. Team Leader makes the decision and announces it
2. Team Leader ‘sells’ their decision
3. Team Leader presents their decision and invites questions
4. Team Leader presents a tentative decision, subject to change
5. Team Leader presents the problem, gets suggestions, and then makes a decision
6. Team Leader defines the limits within which the group makes the decision
7. Team Leader allows the group to make the decision, subject to organizational constraints
FORCES IN THE TEAM LEADER
• Values
• Inclinations
• Confidence
• Security
FORCES IN THE TEAM-MEMBERS
• need for independence
• readiness to assume responsibility
• comfort or discomfort with ambiguity
• interest in the problem
• assessment of the problem’s importance
• understanding of and sympathy for the organization’s goals
• relevant knowledge and experience
• expectations towards participating in decision-making
• trust for you, as a manager
FORCES IN THE SITUATION
• Organisation
• Group Effectiveness
• Time Pressure
• The Problem Itself
RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
1. Reflect on recent times when you have set work for your team. What positions on the team leadership continuum did you select? (2 MC CPD Points)
2. To what extent could you have chosen alternate positions on those occasions? (2 MC CPD Points)
3. Make deliberate choices using this model and monitor the outcomes your choices have on your team’s performance for two weeks. Reflect on what you learn and what your next priorities are. (3 MC CPD Points)
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RECOMMENDED READING
– The Five Dysfunctions of a Team https://geni.us/wbIE
– The Wisdom of Teams https://geni.us/7i1AL
– The Belbin Guide to Succeeding at Work https://geni.us/Kzc4GV4
– Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart https://geni.us/oAgEOdA
– Pulling Together: 10 Rules for High-Performance Teamwork https://geni.us/zUVV3G
– HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Teams https://geni.us/0DLsNe4
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