Team Dynamics: Situational Leadership

Chapter's 12 & 13 focus on project management and how to manage projects when resources are scarce. You have been assigned to develop a series of professional development sessions focusing on technology use in the classroom for teachers during a time of economic decline. How will you use Situational Leadership to facilitate this project and manage scarce resources?

 

I would approach the task by breaking it into small, doable segments by planning the first training in the series as a group, then letting my team plan the other trainings with my supervision.  I would follow the four phases of situational leadership as outlined by Hersey in 2001.  During phase 1, I would convene the team to establish my authority and experience developing teacher training and assess their strengths/weaknesses.  I would present my ideas for how to divide the workload.  I would give specific deadlines for their drafts of their trainings, etc.  Then, we would reconvene for a follow up on tasks assigned during our initial training.  As we enter phase 2, I would meet individually with each team member to applaud their hardwork and help them to narrow down the best of their ideas.  Then, each team member would present their best training topic ideas for critique to the large group.  Next, we would actually deliver the training as we designed and enter into phase 3.  During our debriefing meeting after the training, we would go over the aggregate results of the participant evaluations and celebrate our successes as well as plan to combat our weaknesses.  Phase 4 would consist of my team developing their ideas and going straight to the large/group critique meeting.  Each team member would then develop their own timeline for implementation.  Phases 3 and 4 would remain the same until all trainings have been developed.