Imagine that you are a team leader
and you have just recruited a new team member.
What is your priority?
Are you going to focus on the task of the job
and try to explain this new team member everything he or she needs to know
in order to achieve the goals?
Or maybe, are you going to focus on the employee,
trying to find out his or her strengths, needs and interests
in order to assign a suitable task for him or her?
We can ask you what is the best approach?
Blake Mouton Managerial Grid model is a powerful way to understand
a managerial style and to improve it.
It is a plot based on two different dimensions.
First, we can find concern for people.
In this dimension we value how much a leader prioritizes
his or her people, their needs, skills and others.
The second dimension is concerned for production or results.
And how a leader focuses on peoples productivity.
This grid shows five different management styles.
Lets look at them more closely.
First, we can see the impoverished management.
It is the exertion of minimum effort to get the required work
and to sustain people's motivation.
The only results are going to be dissatisfaction and disorganization.
The authority-compliance management,
also known as "produce-or-perish", focuses just on results.
A leader whose management style falls in this part of the grid,
will get great results at first, thanks to strong rules.
But eventually, people's motivation will fall,
affecting performance and retention.
Another style is the "in-middle-of-the-road" management.
It tries to balance results and peoples needs.
It sounds better than the other two styles,
but at the end, it fails to inspire high performance
or to meet her or his team members' needs.
If we continue, we find The Country Club or "accommodating" manager
who is mostly concerned about her or his team's needs
and feelings.
Creating a very easy and relaxed work environment,
but the productivity suffers.
There is a lack of the motivation, direction and control,
needed to lead a team.
And finally, we get the Team Management.
It is the most effective leadership style.
Here, a leader should focus on the production,
but also on the team needs.
Everybody understands the organizations goals
and that they are important to achieve them.
Creating a very motivated space of work,
leading to high satisfaction, high motivation and excellent results.
To explore more about this, please read the notes after this video.