Team Leadership: What is John Adair's Action Centered Leadership?

John Adair's Action Centered Leadership model (sometimes known as the three circles model) is one of the best models for Team Leadership. Every manager should know it.
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Program 4: Managing & Leading Groups
Course 3: Teams
Section 3: Team Leadership
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- Four Quadrants of Team Leadership • Four Quadrants of Team...
- Team Leadership Continuum • What is the Team Leade...
- Daniel Goleman’s 6 Leadership Styles for Team Leaders • Daniel Goleman's 6 Lea...
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LESSON NOTES
John Adair - Action Centered Leadership:
1. Achieving the Task
a. needs clarity and sense of purpose
b. Plan
c. what’s expected of us
2. Building and Maintaining the Team
a. shared purpose
b. collaboration
c. pride in collective achievements
3. Developing the Individual
a. physical and psychological needs
b. fairness
c. recognition and status
To these, I’d add communication, as a wrap-around
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1. The Action Centered Leadership model sets out our roles as a team leader. Inventory your performance against Adair's three team leadership roles, plus communication. How well are you performing? Where are your strong and weak points? (4 MC CPD Points)
2. What changes do you need to make? (2 MC CPD Points)
3. Make those changes and monitor your performance and the outcomes your choices have on your team's performance for two weeks. Reflect on what you learn and what your next priorities are. (3 MC CPD Points)
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RECOMMENDED READING
For this module, my top pick is a short and inexpensive book: John Adair's 'Effective Leadership: How to Be a Successful Leader' geni.us/k8FT
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team geni.us/wbIE
- The Wisdom of Teams geni.us/7i1AL
- The Belbin Guide to Succeeding at Work geni.us/Kzc4GV4
- Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart geni.us/oAgEOdA
- Pulling Together: 10 Rules for High-Performance Teamwork geni.us/zUVV3G
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams geni.us/0DLsNe4
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