Situational leadership to grow your team's autonomy

Goals

• To understand the key concepts of autonomy and situational leadership
• To adapt yourself to the motivations and skills of your collaborators
• To develop the autonomy of your team using situational leadership

Target audience

Anyone managing a team, now or in the future

Prerequisite

None

Contents

Autonomy?

• What is autonomy?
• Mix between skills (knowhow) and motivation (want to do)
• How to recognise it?
• How to appreciate the level of autonomy of your team and its members?

Key concepts of situational leadership

• The Hersey and Blanchard model: 4 rules, 4 styles
• Description of the different styles and their link with personal autonomy
• Advantages and disadvantages of each style

Putting situational leadership to work

• Linking the principles of situational leadership with your own reality
• Identify the level of autonomy of your co-workers
• Identify the management style fit for each individual

Continuously develop the autonomy of your team

• Create the right environment to develop autonomy: trust, follow up and recognition
• Continuously follow up the level of autonomy (and its variations) of every co-worker
• Take advantage of synergies and complementary profiles to change the overall autonomy of the team