Selection should pair the following leadership styles with identified situations
- telling: provides specific instructions and closely supervises all phases of the project
- selling: closely supervises task, completion, and follow-up
- participating: helps and supports team members; shares ideas and decisions
- testing: leader tests the group, the group reacts by performing tasks
- consulting: leader presents the problem and asks for ideas
- delegating: turns over decision making, problem solving, and implementation to team members, providing help when asked, and monitoring progress
- joining: the group decides, the leader follows.
Process/Skill Questions:
- What type of leadership style would best be defined by a situation where the leader follows the group?
- What other leadership styles and scenarios could one describe?