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Action-Centered Leadership - Explained

What is Action-Centered Leadership?

Written by Jason Gordon

Updated at May 10th, 2022

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What is Action-Centered Leadership?

What is Action-Centered Leadership?

Action-Centered Leadership, a model proposed by John Adair, distinguishes 3 groups of interrelated activities of effective leaders. 

  1. Achieving the Task.
    • Identify aims and vision for the group, purpose, and direction.
    • Identify resources, people, processes, systems and tools.
    • Create the plan to achieve the task: deliverables, measures, timescales, strategy and tactics.
    • Establish responsibilities, objectives, accountabilities and measures, by agreement and delegation.
    • Set standards, quality, time and reporting parameters.
    • Control and maintain activities against parameters.
    • Monitor and maintain overall performance against plan.
    • Report on progress towards the group's aim.
    • Review, re-assess, adjust plan, methods and targets as necessary.
  2. Building and maintaining the Team.
    • Establish, agree and communicate standards of performance and behavior.
    • Establish style, culture, approach of the group (soft skill elements).
    • Monitor and maintain discipline, ethics, integrity and focus on objectives.
    • Anticipate and resolve group conflict, struggles or disagreements.
    • Assess and change as necessary the balance and composition of the group.
    • Develop team-working, cooperation, morale and team-spirit.
    • Develop the collective maturity and capability of the group - progressively increase group freedom and authority.
    • Encourage the team towards objectives and aims: motivate the group and provide a collective sense of purpose.
    • Identify, develop and agree team- and project-leadership roles within group.
    • Enable, facilitate and ensure effective internal and external group communications.
    • Identify and meet group training needs.
    • Give feedback to the group on overall progress: consult with, and seek feedback and input from the group.
  3. Developing the Individual.
    • Understand the team members as individuals: personality, skills, strengths, needs, aims and fears.
    • Assist and support individuals: plans, problems, challenges, highs and lows.
    • Identify and agree appropriate individual responsibilities and objectives.
    • Give recognition and praise to individuals: acknowledge effort and good work.
    • Where appropriate reward individuals with extra responsibility, advancement and status.
    • Identify, develop and utilize each individual's capabilities and strengths.
    • Train and develop individual team members.
    • Develop individual freedom and authority.
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