Team Leadership Models

There are a number of different models of team leadership that can provide leaders with an effective approach to the different challenges and scenarios that they are likely to face in their capacity as leaders. Different leadership models are appropriate in different scenarios, which is something critical for leaders to understand, because leadership can and must be situationally-dependent. There are two very simple leadership models that have been used in a number of scenarios to provide successful guidance for emerging leaders: Hill's Team Leadership Model and John Adair's Action-Centered Leadership Model.

With the wide variety of leadership models available for examination, the choice of leadership model to discuss is, in and of itself, a telling decision. These two models are interesting because of their simplicity. Hill's Team Leadership Model can be represented in a simple four-layer flow-chart, while John Adair's Action-Centered Leadership Model can be represented by...
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