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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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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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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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Chris Argyris and the Immaturity-Maturity Model of Motivation: Treat People as Adults
Chris Argyris offers us a more sophisticated view of McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y model of motivation. His conclusion is that we need to treat people as adults. Argyris put forward his ‘Immaturity-Maturity Theory’. This suggested...
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Hackman and Oldham: Job Characteristics Model of Motivation
How do the characteristics of the task at hand affect motivation? This is the question that Hackman and Oldham tackle in their Job Characteristics model of motivation. In this video, we look at the three factors that contribute to the...
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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 are Edgar Schein's Two Organizational Cultures?
In this video, we look at two opposed cultures that Schein defined, to give us our first, and simplest, introduction to the many different organizational models available. Schein's two organizational cultures have either an authority...
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What is Charles Handy's Shamrock Organization?
In his 1989 book, The Age of Unreason, Charles Handy looked forward to a new type of organization, the Shamrock Organization.
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Porter & Lawler: Expectancy Theory on Steroids
Victor Vroom’s Expectancy Theory of motivation is extremely successful. But Lyman Porter and Edward Lawler found that predict or explain everything about the relationships among the effort we put in, the performance we achieve, and the...
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Margerison McCann: The Team Management Wheel
Charles Margerison and Dick McCann developed one of the leading tools to help managers with team performance: the Team Management Wheel.
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What is Emotional Intelligence? An Introduction
Emotional intelligence or EI is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of the people around you. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course: Emotional Intelligence: A Management Courses Introduction...
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Critical Assessment of Emotional Intelligence: The Cases For and Against
Emotional Intelligence is an appealing model with a lot of ‘face validity’. That is, subjectively people see it as covering the concept it purports to measure. However, there is also a lot of academic criticism of the concept. So, in...
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NLP Change Work: How Does NLP Go about Changing People?
The biggest claims that NLP practitioners make are that NLP has a toolkit of methods for helping people to change. This includes things like lack of confidence, uncertainty about decisions, stress, and anxiety. So, what is the basic...
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What are Kurt Lewin's Freeze Phases for Team Development?
Kurt Lewin is one of the giants of 20th Century psychology. And one of his best contributions is Kurt Lewin's Freeze Phases model of how people go through transitions.
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Edward Lawler: Vroom Enhanced with Two Types of Expectancy
Victor Vroom’s Expectancy Theory of motivation is, perhaps, my favorite model of how motivation works. And my video on it is one of the most-watched on this channel. But Edward Lawler expanded on it in a small, but important way. He gave...
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What is the Cultural Web? Johnson & Scholes on Where Culture Originates
The Cultural Web of an organization is a model developed by Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes.
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Quinn and Cameron: Competing Values Model of Organizational Culture
Robert Quinn and Kim Cameron created a model of four organizational cultures. The Quinn and Cameron model is known as a “competing values framework” because it starts from two pairs of competing values.
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What is the Starfish Model for Giving Feedback?
The Starfish Model offers you a quick and future-focused way to give formal and informal feedback.
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What is The Tuckman Model - Tuckman Team Development Model?
The Tuckman Model of Group Formation and Team Development is one of the most important, useful, and successful management models. Simply put... Every manager needs to know it!
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NLP Presuppositions: Explained!
NLP learning often starts with a set of presuppositions. These are statements that may or may not be true. However, it is helpful to proceed as if they are because they are deeply empowering. They are ‘convenient assumptions’.
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Abraham Maslow and the Hierarchy of Needs - Content Model of Motivation
Abraham Maslow' Hierarchy of Needs is possibly the best known model of motivation. As a motivation theory, the hierarchy of needs is useful, but probably over-used.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Artist, Inventor, and Renaissance Man
Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance genius known for his iconic painting, the Mona Lisa, housed in the Louvre Gallery. Beyond his artistic prowess, da Vinci was a visionary inventor and scientist, with designs for inventions like the...
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The Legacy of Henry Ford: Revolutionizing the Automobile Industry
Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, revolutionized the automotive industry with the introduction of the Model T Ford over 100 years ago. By implementing innovative assembly line techniques, Ford made cars more affordable...