Leadership Style

This case study encourages participants to explore the issue of toxic leadership and identify what steps can be taken to improve working relationships for all concerned. Allow up to 70 minutes for completion.

A case study set in a small software company examining how to achieve a balance in leadership. It is also suited to exploring how to change organisational culture and build a productive, successful team. Allow just over 1 hour for completion.

A leadership case study about the difficulties of managing an expanding organisation. Allow one hour.

A leadership case study set in a hotel. It explores issues relating to culture, morale, performance and motivation. Allow around one hour.

A quick checklist of the types of behaviours, approaches and actions that can help you to successfully lead and implement change.

A diagnostic to help individuals identify their preferred style of leadership. Allow 40 minutes for completion.

A quick diagnostic to measure how closely you match the specification of a transformational leader.

Use this diagnostic to assess if a manager or leader is showing signs of toxic behaviour. No separate facilitator guidance is necessary.

This is a fun and easy exercise to get the group thinking about the different styles of inspirational leadership they have all experienced. It takes 30 – 40 minutes to complete.

A quick and simple icebreaker asking participants to reflect on how a leader’s behaviour can impact on the morale and values of the team. Allow 20 minutes for completion.

This exercise is designed to help a group to understand the concepts of power and authority within organisations. Allow 45 minutes for completion.

This fun and practical creativity exercise encourages lateral thinking through exaggeration and restriction-setting. Allow up to 40 minutes for completion.

Understanding how people interact is an important part of effective leadership. This fun, experiential roleplay activity has been designed to give leaders an insight into the roles which they and others adopt, to both positive and negative effect. The exercise should last 1¼ hours and is suitable for groups of around eight people.