When Situational Leadership goes wrong; totally!
Tom Sorensen, Headhunter
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Don’t blame your staff. When a leadership style does not appear to work and leaves the team or individuals dysfunctional, it’s not the time to point a finger at them.
Maybe you know the saying, "When you point one finger, there are three fingers pointing back to you."
The fundamental principle of the situational leadership model is that there is no single "best" style of leadership.
Great leadership behaviour varies. It depends not only on the person or the group of people in the team that is being influenced, but also on the task or job that needs to be accomplished.
The most successful leaders are those who adapt their leadership style to the individual employee or the team they lead, manage or influence.
Frank R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has said this:
Treat them all the same by treating them differently.
Situational Leadership gone wrong
Are you empathetic enough to help your people through this current COVID crisis or are you and your management team so logical that your staff feel that the company does not care?
If you are not successful in managing your people, or when you fail to motivate the team, or perhaps got fired for not being effective in your leadership, there are simple reasons.
Continue to read what these reasons are and more importantly the solutions and how you fix it.