How to Use Leadership Styles Effectively: Matched Leadership

The Roots of Competence is a fundamental concept of Matched Leadership and this lecture explains how you can view different aspects of competence to better be able to see where somebody is lacking and needs your support.

This lecture explains the four different competence levels based on the Roots of Competence. Learn how to identify these competence levels based on the Skill and Will of the team member or follower.

A lecture that teaches you about the four different Leadership Styles that you use to match your leadership more effectively. Learn the characteristics of each style and what it entails.

A quick summary and reminder of what we covered in this section to help you take the key points with you.

It all starts with you when it comes to a great leadership. This exercise will help you look at your own competence levels and preferred leadership styles so you get more familiar with these concepts.

Updated lecture where you learn how to match your Leadership Style to the Competence Level of the follower in order to become more effective as a leader.

Get an introduction to the Guide and what you will learn from the following lectures. Also attached to this lecture as a resource is a PDF-version of the Guide to Matched Leadership that you can download and follow along in for the following lectures.

This updated lecture explores Part 3 of the Guide and how the perceived sense of responsibility varies with the different competence levels and leadership styles.

This updated lectures takes look at Part 4 of the Guide and how two of the leader's most precious resources, his or her time and energy, are used related to the different competence levels and leadership styles.

This updated lecture concerns Part 5 of the Guide and explains your focus as a leader when it comes to the two dimension of things and experiences related to the different competence levels and leadership styles.

This updated lecture about Part 6 of the Guide clarifies the different types of communication that occur on each competence level and its related leadership style.

This updated lecture about Part 7 of the Guide gives you practical hints and tips about using the four different leadership styles effectively.

The Map of Matched Leadership in this updated lecture gives you an overview of the different concepts in Matched Leadership. It functions as a reference that you can return to in your everyday leadership to remind yourself how to lead more effectively, increase your followers motivation and grow them to become self leaders.

A practice activity to help you really grasp Matched Leadership. Jim Rohn, the famous business philosopher, said that two really master a subject you need to Study, Practice, Teach. Here you get to do the teaching part.

By using these questions you can more precisely assess the Competence Level of the follower.

You will learn the six steps on the way to matching your leadership style effective. With practical examples and two downloadable file attached. One file with the steps and one with the Strategy Matrix you can use when working with your followers.

About how you relate to leadership and to people as you lead them.

The problem is most often not what we do not know. It is that we do not use what we know. So here is your chance to apply your new knowledge so that you really master the concept of adjusting your leadership style.

Get introduced to the research behind Matched Leadership which is based on more than twenty years of study and more than 2000 hours of specific research.

Learn about the findings of the Ohio State University Studies in the 1940s and the Michigan University Leadership Studies in the 1950s, such as the shift from traits to behaviors and moving the general debate further into the question of leading teams rather than just individuals

Get familiar with the Managerial Grid Model created by Jane Mutton and Robert Blake in 1964 which described five different leadership styles based on the two variables of concern for production and concern for people.

Learn about Fiedler's Contingency Model from 1967, which brought in a situational aspect to the equation of leadership and came to the conclusion that the effectiveness of the group is determined by the match between the situation and the style of the leader.

Learn the basics of Bill Reddin’s 3D Theory and how he introduced his view of the third dimension of effectiveness and the insight that the same behavior can be appropriate or inappropriate depending on the situation.

In this lecture we will explore the Situational Leadership Theory developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, which emphasizes the importance of adapting your leadership style to meet the maturity level of your team or individual followers.

Learn about the main findings from the research, such as that good leadership is a behavior that can be developed and that is flexible in its nature. Also a more whole view of competence and the discovery of four leadership styles for effectiveness.

Attached is also a PDF-file you can download which provides a summarized overview of the research.

Closing thoughts related to the course and your use of Matched Leadership with a personal message from Markus Amanto.

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