Setting Direction & Strategy
Leaders often use this to guide decision-making and resource allocation, ensuring alignment with the overall organisational goals.
What is organisational strategy and direction?
This leadership style allows team members significant autonomy and minimal intervention from the leader.
What is Laissez-faire?
This model describes the stages of team development as Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning.
What is Tuckman’s Model?
Actively ensuring that all stakeholders feel valued, respected, and included during change initiatives.
What is Stakeholder engagement?
This tool can assist in visualising the project as well as organising the tasks
What is a Gantt Chart?
This is vital for an organisation to have because it provides focus, aligns efforts, and guides decision-making at all levels.
What is a clear strategy and direction?
This leadership style is characterized by telling people what to do.
What is an autocratic leadership style?
These roles focus on personal/social and dysfunctional or individualistic behaviours and support teams to be managed effectively.
What are Benne and Sheats' Theory?
This can happen when change is poorly managed, leading to feelings of being excluded or undervalued.
Why do some team members become disengaged during times of change?
These skills involve entrusting tasks to capable team members to free up leaders' time for strategic activities.
What are effective delegation skills?
These business planning techniques involve imagining various possible future scenarios to prepare for a range of potential outcomes.
What are scenario planning and future business planning?
This leadership style focuses on inspiring and empowering team members.
What is transformational leadership?
Understanding these can help leaders tailor their motivational techniques to individual needs.
What are motivational theories and models?
According to this change model, you must unfreeze, change and then refreeze
What is Lewin's Change Model?
These are the consequences of this include missed deadlines, increased stress, and workload pressures.
What is Ineffective time management?
Leaders use these to gauge performance and ensure progress toward strategic goals by measuring achievements against established standards.
What are KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)?
This style focuses on providing guidance and support to help individuals develop their skills and reach their potential.
What is coaching leadership?
This theory focuses on identifying and ensuring a balanced team, with a profile that reflects how different team members behave, contribute, and interrelate with others.
What is Belbin's Team roles theory?
This model emphasizes creating a sense of urgency, building a guiding coalition, and communicating a vision.
What is Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model?
This model helps you decide what tasks to do based on importance and urgency
What is the Eisenhower Matrix?
This is a comprehensive strategic model that includes strategy, structure, systems, shared values, skills, style, and staff.
What is the McKinsey 7-S Model?
This style is used to adapt to the various tasks and scenarios that arise.
What is situational leadership?
This is where team members understand their roles, trust each other, and work collaboratively toward shared goals.
What is the 'Performing' stage of team development?
Applying this model in managing change means deliberately addressing bias and ensuring equitable treatment throughout the process.
What is Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model?
This decision-making technique in time management involves eliminating tasks that have already been completed, doing tasks that are immediately important and urgent, delegating less important tasks, and deferring tasks that have little impact on achieving your objectives in the present.
What are the 4Ds of time management?