Leadership II: Leading Management Teams – Situational Leadership

Leadership – starting points (in each module from a different point of view)

• Orientation to people, positive attitude and strategic thinking
• Inspiration from the stories of real leaders

My preferred leadership style

• Six leadership styles (based on research by D. Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee)
• Identification of preferred style (questionnaire)
• Strengths and weaknesses of my preferred leadership style
• How to correct your style in situations where your weaknesses would stand out?

Situational leadership

• Leadership styles (four leadership styles according to K. Blanchard)
• A situational approach to the management of managers and co-workers
• Changing the management paradigm from “I manage in my own way” to the leadership paradigm “I lead in order to achieve goals most effectively”
• What influences the choice of an appropriate leadership style?
• How to handle leadership styles that are foreign to me, but the situation requires them?
• How to assign tasks and control their fulfillment with different leadership styles?

Leader and Team – Leadership and different types of teams

• Types of teams and their leadership
• Team development and how to adapt your management style to the team situation

The importance of values ​​and integrity

• Values ​​and their communication in the company, communicated and real company culture
• A leader leads by example and models the way. I do what I say (Walk your talk)
• Building or breaking trust

Research of a selected book on leadership

Possible assignments

• Analysis of the situation in the team I lead and a proposal for changes in my approach to team management
• Optimizing the leadership style of individual employees
• Custom assignment related to the topic

We can learn many useful procedures and techniques, but let’s remain ourselves, out of respect for ourselves and for people to trust us.