{"id":1899,"date":"2010-05-15T20:02:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2010-05-15T20:02:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T00:02:22","slug":"book-review-leadership-and-the-one-minute-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=1899","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Leadership and The One Minute Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Leadership-One-Minute-Manager-Effectiveness\/dp\/0688039693\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1900\" title=\"9780688039691\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/9780688039691-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/9780688039691-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/9780688039691.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How many times have you found yourself looking for a quick read when you just have a little time available? \u00a0This afternoon, I picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Leadership-One-Minute-Manager-Effectiveness\/dp\/0688039693\" target=\"_blank\">Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness through Situational Leadership<\/a> by Ken Blanchard\u00a0and read it cover to cover in right at 30 minutes. \u00a0This book was one of the required texts for my husband&#8217;s Executive MBA program. \u00a0As a high school principal, I can say that this book is a great read for anyone involved in education. \u00a0There are direct correlations between situational leadership and the idea of reaching students with differing learning styles.<\/p>\n<p>On the front of the book is a symbol that shows the one minute readout from the face of a digital watch. \u00a0This is intended to remind leaders to take a minute out of each day to look into the faces of the people we manage. \u00a0That is how we will realize that they are our most important resources.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some notes I want to remember from this book&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blanchard identifies four basic leadership styles: directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating.<\/li>\n<li>Directing: The leader provides specific direction and closely monitors task accomplishment.<\/li>\n<li>Coaching: The leader continues to direct and closely monitor task accomplishment, but also explains decisions, solicits suggestions, and supports progress.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting: The leader facilitates and supports people&#8217;s efforts towards task accomplishment and shares responsibility for decision-making with them.<\/li>\n<li>Delegating: The leader turns over responsibility for decision-making and problem-solving to people.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership style is how you behave when you are trying to influence the performance of someone else. \u00a0It is a combination of directive and supportive behaviors.<\/li>\n<li>Directive Behavior: Involves clearly telling people what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and then closely monitoring their performance.<\/li>\n<li>Supportive Behavior: Involves listening to people, providing support and encouragement for their efforts, and then facilitating their involvement in problem-solving and decision-making.<\/li>\n<li>There is a direct correlation between the 4 leadership styles and the balance between directive and supportive behavior depending on the situation.<\/li>\n<li>Blanchard lists goals, &#8220;praisings&#8221;, and reprimands as the three secrets of one minute management that make situational leadership a dynamic model.<\/li>\n<li>Goals start performances in the right direction and permit a manager to analyze a person&#8217;s competence and commitment (development level) to perform well.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Praisings&#8221; foster improvements in the development level of individuals and permit a manager to gradually change his\/her leadership style from more direction (directing) to less direction and more support (coaching and supporting) to less direction and more support (delegating).<\/li>\n<li>Situational leadership is not something you do to people, but something you do with people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>There are lots of good leadership nuggets in this book. \u00a0I wasn&#8217;t asked to endorse this book, but I would encourage you to pick up a copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Leadership-One-Minute-Manager-Effectiveness\/dp\/0688039693\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have you found yourself looking for a quick read when you just have a little time available? \u00a0This afternoon, I picked up Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness through Situational Leadership by Ken Blanchard\u00a0and read it cover to cover in right at 30 minutes. \u00a0This book was one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}