Has COVID-19 Changed Your Leadership Style?
Karen Kemerling • May 14, 2020
Has COVID-19 Changed Your Leadership Style? - Webinar Summary
Unprecedented Level of Uncertainty?
- Health conditions, testing variability
- Working at home (remote teams, isolation)
- Government direction is unclear (Federal, State, Local)
- Employment - do I have a job, furloughs, pay cuts …
- Connections with family, friends, community
- Business economic impact
- More…
If you wonder what VUCA looks like - this is it!
- Volatility
- Uncertainty
- Complexity
- Ambiguity
Agile Leadership Development Model
- Leaders typically develop agility by growing through a predictable sequences of agility levels:
- Expert
- Achiever
- Catalyst
- At each level, you retain the capabilities you developed at the previous levels , and you can still use these capabilities as needed (downshift to previous levels intentionally or unintentionally)
Expert Leadership
- Mindset:
- Smart and experienced
- Believe their approach is best
- Focus:
- Tactical, problem solver, data driven
- Behaviors:
- Do the work themselves
- Avoid giving or receiving feedback
- People:
- Work 1-on-1
- Directive
Achiever Leadership
- Mindset:
- Align and influence others through clear strategy
- Those who buy-in are rewarded
- Focus:
- Push for results
- Do what it takes to accomplish goals
- Behaviors:
- Competitive
- Influence/ lead people
- People:
- In the middle of 1-to-Many relationships
- Work across functional boundaries
Catalyst Leadership
- Mindset:
- Self-aware of their own thinking (intent)
- Don’t assume they know better
- Look for win/win solutions
- Focus:
- Long-term vision and organizational purpose
- Balance short-term and long-term goals
- Behaviors:
- Co-create a way forward (empowered teams)
- Transparent and engaged
- Coach others
- People:
- Respect and trust
- Use failure as learning – safe environment
Has COVID-19 Changed Your Leadership Style?
- Leaders develop the skills to recognize
what leadership mode
is the best for a given situation
- Expert (Do)
- Achiever (Lead)
- Catalyst (Coach)
