Author: adriandobre

Dreyfus Skill Acquisition & Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership

When I read about the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition I couldn’t help to notice the resemblance with the The Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership® Theory I wrote about in a previous article.

Here is the updated table after the connections have been made: Continue reading →

Leadership skills: The Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership® Theory

Among the many leadership theories out there, the Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership® Theory is on top of my favourites. Briefly, it states that successful leaders match their leadership style with the maturity and experience levels of the people they’re leading. When successfully using this theory, leaders are placing more or less emphasis on the task or the relationship with the person, depending on what are the needs to successfully accomplish an objective. Continue reading →

Four conditions for changing mindsets

In an article in the McKinsey Quarterly, Emily Lawson and Colin Price identify four conditions for changing the mindsets of employees:

  1. employees see the point of the change and agree with it;
  2. the surrounding structures are in tune with the new behaviour;
  3. employees have the skills required to cope with the change;
  4. employees want to see people they respect acting as role models and promote the change.

The connections between noun gender and architecture

A quick one this time. I have a keen interest in how the words we use shape traits of our personality, so this news eluded me. Some countries have gender for inanimate objects. And, in some cases, the gender for the same object changes from country to country. The words bridge, clock, apartment, fork are feminine in German and masculine in Spanish, for example. Continue reading →