2009 Session: Situational Leadership on Projects: Adopting Leadership Style to Conditions
Thursday, 15:35 - 16:25
Track: Aspects Of Leadership
On projects, you need to adjust your leadership style to reflect the circumstances you face.This presentation offers a framework for identifying appropriate leadership style, based on such factors as project size, time horizon, risk, complexity, novelty, and level of team cohesiveness. It also points out that you don't need to have great charisma to be a good leader. Transactional leadership is often good enough. If you are really good at what you do, this will gain you followers.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites
Expectations
Management vs. Administration vs. Leadership
Additional Info
J. Davidson Frame
J. Davidson Frame, PhD, PMP is Academic Dean at the University of Management and Technology, Arlington, Va. Prior to joining UMT in 1998, he served 19 years on the faculty of the George Washington University, Washington, DC, where he was Chairman of the Department of Management Science and established GWU's project management program. David has authored 30 academic articles and 10 books. He was on the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute for 11 years, and is a PMI Fellow.