Learn When to Lead and When to Manage

In this half-day course, you’ll explore various definitions and style of leadership. Whether you’re leading a project team or an organizational unit, your understanding of these distinctions and willingness to adapt your style to the situation impacts your leadership effectiveness. You’ll learn when to emphasize your leadership or management behaviors as your team moves from the forming stage into the storming stage of the Tuckman model. You’ll also learn why so many teams fail to reach the norming and performing stages. Finally, you’ll learn tactics to keep your team in the performing stage.

You'll Learn To:

• Describe a range of definitions and style of leadership
• Refine your concept of leadership
• Distinguish leadership from management behaviors
• Identify your preferred leadership style
• Describe specific ways to move between autocratic and participative styles of leadership
• Describe the Tuckman team development model
• Describe key behaviors signifying each stage of team development
• Describe the most effective mix of leadership and management behaviors based upon your team’s development
• Describe effective strategies for onboarding new members into a highly functional team
• Identify your team’s development stage
• Describe the mix of leadership and management behaviors required to move your team to the next development stage
• Identify leadership growth opportunities