Leadership : New and Experienced Manager’s Guide to Success

Discover your leadership style with 12 scenario questions and four answer choices; pick what you would do in each situation, noting there is no right answer, recorded in Excel.

Identify your prominent leadership style through a quadrant-based assessment of high task and low relationship, revealing selling, participating, delegating, and telling styles and how to switch between them.

Explore how to adapt leadership styles—telling, selling, participating, and delegating—for different scenarios, focusing on when to use which approach and how to apply style implications.

Learn how to adapt leadership styles to subordinate maturity by evaluating skill and will, using M1–M4 frameworks, and applying telling, selling, participating, and delegating to boost motivation and performance.

Explore adaptability and leadership styles with a practical tool that reveals whether your style is rigid or flexible, and introduces four styles—from selling to telling, to participating, to delegating.

Learn how delegation, a low task and low relationship leadership style, empowers autonomy, clarifies outcomes, and saves time while developing talent through clear steps, levels, and accountability.

Embrace supportive and participative leadership, a high relationship low task style for high-skill low-will teams, to boost engagement, collaboration, and innovation through empathetic guidance.

Coaching leadership emphasizes individual growth, upskilling, and empowerment, guiding through mentoring, actionable feedback, and a culture of continuous learning to boost team performance.

Master the directive leadership style, high on task and low on relationship, guiding low skill and low will teams with clear instructions, objectives, and decisive steps.

Learn how a flexible leadership approach applies delegating, coaching, participating, and directing to lead a diverse marketing team through a tight deadline, achieving a successful eco-friendly yoga wear launch.

Discover how motivation boosts team performance by balancing skill and will, and assess your effectiveness as a motivator through a practical self-assessment and actionable strategies.

Explore how Maslow's hierarchy explains motivation in leadership, from basic needs and security to belonging, esteem, and self-actualization, and apply recognition, development, and autonomy to boost team performance.

Explore motivation strategies for managers, including positive reinforcement and high expectations, fair treatment, flexible work arrangements, clear goal setting, job restructuring, and performance-based rewards to boost productivity and satisfaction.