Connective Leadership model
The folks at the Achieving Styles Institute have an interesting take on the ways individuals get things done. This is bundled into their Connective Leadership model.
Connective Leadership offers an important perspective for bringing together diverse, even conflicting, groups that exist in an interdependent environment. Achieving Styles are the nine underlying behavioral strategies that individuals characteristically call upon to achieve their goals.
The Connective Leadership/Achieving Styles Model includes three sets of Achieving Styles: Direct, Instrumental, and Relational. Each set comprises three individual styles, resulting in a nine-fold repertoire.
I reckon leaders who need to get the most out of the groups they are working with could harness this repertoire of individual styles in several ways. Firstly, it would give good background on where people are coming from and therefore help everyone to understand their colleagues better.
Secondly, it would help when team assignments are being determined. Knowing individual propensities would both make for more transparent decisions and deliver a better connection between how group members get things done, and the doing that’s required.
Finally, it could provide some training and development indicators around individual strengths (to build or capitalise on) and weaknesses (to be addressed in a variety of ways).