Leadership Styles

1. Leadership Styles MGT 500 St. Joseph’s College Graduate Management

2. Leadership styles • Effective leaders adapt their styles to the environment • This requires, among other things, flexibility • Development of flexibility – priority ability for most managers’ personal development plans St. Joseph's College - Graduate Management- Dr. Coty Keller

3. Two Models for Assessing Leadership Style • Two dimensional Leadership Style Profile • Goleman – from Leadership that Gets Results • Use them together for robust analysis St. Joseph's College - Graduate Management- Dr. Coty Keller

4. Leadership style profile • Based on Situational Leadership model • Shows leader behavior on task and relationship scales- 4 “types” of leadership- based on responses to 12 situations • “Effective” leaders show behaviors with balance in all 4 quadrants – adopting the style that suits the situation. • Effective leaders score 3 in each style and earn effectiveness score of 24 St. Joseph's College - Graduate Management- Dr. Coty Keller

5. Goleman’s model: collection of distinct management styles • Research based: Successful Leaders adapt to situation • Underlying emotional intelligence competencies • Explains when each of 6 styles is appropriate • Overall impact on climate St. Joseph's College - Graduate Management- Dr. Coty Keller

6. YOUR personal development plan: Strategies for improving flexibility • Analyze the “wrong” answers on the Leadership Style Profile. Develop plan to alter your behaviors. • Practice flexibility in management styles by classifying situations at work (using Goleman’s model), adopting what you think is the appropriate style, and seeing if it works. St. Joseph's College - Graduate Management- Dr. Coty Keller