Leadership Behavior
OLS 57900: Emerging World-Class Leadership Strategies
Spring 2024
Key Takeaway 1: The behavior approach focuses on what leaders do and how they act. Leaders are assessed based on task behaviors, which focuses on goal achievement, and relationship behaviors, which focuses on the dynamics between the leader and their followers(Northouse, 2019). The Integrated Model of Leadership (IMoLB) combines the two perspectives as it pertains specifically to organizational change (see Exhibit 1), which is important in leading organizations in their digital transformation and adoption of emerging technologies. ​
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Key Takeaway 2: Affirmations are power, positive statements that counteract self-limiting beliefs by rewiring the pathways in your brain for healthier, stronger behaviors (Anderson, 2023).
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​Key Takeaway 3: Senior leaders are under so much pressure to perform, and have such a desire to fit in and succeed, that they will build up an identity they want people to see - and more importantly, an identity they want to fit into (Anderson, 2023).
Exhibit 1: Integrated Model of Leadership Behavior (IMoLB)
Analysis: The IMoLB is very effective in communicating how task-oriented behaviors will trend towards fostering more collaboration when the solution requires more change and which tasks are more beneficial to internal relationships vs. external relationships. Understand this is a relatively new behavior model so I would be interested in following the research to understand its effectiveness and, more importantly, real-world frameworks that applies the theory.
References
Anderson, R. M. (2023). Leadership Mindset 2.0. Columbia: Executive Joy! https://rmichaelanderson.com/leadership-mindset-2-0/
Northouse, P. G. (2019). Leadership: Theory and Practice 8th Edition. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.