Adapting Leadership Style to Deliver Results

We all have a preferred leadership style that gets us results in normal situations. However, when under stress, we over-use the same style, and fail to adapt to the situational needs of an organisation or a team. Understanding Emotional Intelligent leadership styles, how to read a situation, then adapt your style is a key leaders’ skill to consistently delivering results and building a culture of high performance.

Benefits:

Understand how you currently lead a given situation, and your preferred leadership style.
Explore Emotional Intelligence’s six leadership styles, and the healthy or unhealthy impact they can have on the culture you lead.
Develop the skills to stop and ‘get on the balcony’ and read the situational needs of an organisation and teams, noting how individuals react to different pressures.
Identify which leadership style or combination is required to effectively leader individuals and teams.
Apply and test adapting to lead different scenarios in a safe learning environment.

Welcome and Introduction

Understanding how you prefer to lead a given situation

Understanding Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Styles

Explaining what Emotional Intelligence is and why it is important to us as leaders.
Introduction to the six leadership styles: Coercive, Pacesetting, Visionary, Affiliative, Coaching and Democratic.
Discussion on how these styles impact on a healthy or unhealthy organisational culture.

Self-Assessment and Reflection

Interactive self-assessment to identify participants’ preferred leadership styles.
Reflection on how these styles manifest under stress.
Group discussion on personal experiences and challenges.

Situational Awareness and ‘Getting on the Balcony’

Introduce the concept of ‘getting on the balcony’ to observe and interpret situational needs.
Techniques for situational analysis and environmental scanning of team and individual needs
Case studies to apply and practice situational awareness.

Adapting Leadership Styles

Strategies to adapt leadership styles based on situational needs.
Quick-fire role-playing exercises to practice adapting styles in different scenarios.
Feedback and insights from role-playing exercises.

Action Planning and Q&A

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