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Understanding Team Needs in Leadership: A Guide to Need Theories

CO2

In the realm of leadership, recognizing and addressing the diverse needs of team members is crucial. Applying Alderfer’s ERG Theory in Team Leadership Clayton P. The ERG model – Existence, Relatedness, and Growth – offers a more flexible approach to understanding team needs in leadership. What are your needs?

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. 7 motivational patterns of high performance leadership.

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What Are Your Needs?

CO2

McClelland’s Need Theory. Achievement Motivation (nACH) - Those with a high need for achievement are attracted to situations offering personal accountability; set challenging, yet attainable, goals for themselves; and desire performance feedback. To that end, their needs can and should influence your leadership.

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The Leader's Role in Crisis - a Guest Post from John Baldoni

Kevin Eikenberry

And of course, nominee for Best Leadership Blog of 2010. Leaders Need To Involve Themselves In Crises by John Baldoni (posted 10/17/10) Failure to respond to a crisis is a failure of leadership. McClelland was a general without any sense of timing or engagement. His nominated blog Lead By Example can be found here.

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Mastering your Inner Game of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

They provide a unique window on the impact overly controlling, self-centered leadership styles can have on others: “Regarding the letter you sent, the heart of your servant is ill, when my lord said: Don’t you know how to read a letter? What are the enduring qualities of great leadership?

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Shifting from Star Performer to Star Manager

Harvard Business Review

You set clear goals for yourself and targets for the division. You’re focused on achieving your goals and getting results… but before long, you’ve got problems. ” It turns out it’s not so easy to manage ultra-smart high achievers — especially when you’re one of them. You’re pumped.

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Do You Have What It Takes to Help Your Team Be Creative?

Harvard Business Review

McClelland got the ball rolling in the 1970s. Invariably, we have learned that murky human performance categories like sales ability and leadership can be broken down into skill sets that are not only measurable; they are also trainable.