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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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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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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

You could gain access to the underlying motivators that drive a leader or employee to do their best work? It’s called motivational profiling. Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Dominant motivation driver.

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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

John teaches men and women to achieve positive results by focusing on communication, influence, motivation and supervision. 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.

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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

In our recent book, “ Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future ,” we examined the repercussions of the convergence of major forces like globalization, climate change, increased individualism, and accelerating digitization. Leadership Managing people Personal effectiveness'

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Shifting from Star Performer to Star Manager

Harvard Business Review

I’m not sure they even really need a manager, they’re that good and that motivated.” The late, great scholar David McClelland studied three human needs, or motivators that are profoundly important when it comes to managing people: the need for achievement, the need for power, and the need for affiliation.