The Tannenbaum-Schmidt Leadership Continuum

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The leadership style that you use can have a significant impact on your team's performance and well-being.

Some leaders are autocratic and prefer to retain control, while others use a more flexible, participative style. Still others use a style that falls somewhere in between these two extremes.

This is where The Tannenbaum-Schmidt Leadership Continuum comes in. It is a spectrum of seven different leadership styles, each of which is based on a different level of control.

By adapting your approach and the amount of control you exert over your team to the different styles on the Continuum, you can boost your team's performance, trust and job satisfaction.

So, take a look and find out where you fall on the Continuum, and what style best suits the needs of your team.

*Graphic representation of the Tannenbaum-Schmidt Leadership Continuum taken from "How to Choose a Leadership Pattern" by Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H. Schmidt, May 1973. Copyright © 1973 by the Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation; all rights reserved.

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