Situational Management: Participative Management

Management & LeadershipTeamwork & CooperationManagers≈ 10 min

Key skill: Situational management & delegation

Summary

Faced with a skilled but unmotivated team member, apply participative management: understand the source of their demotivation, involve them in decisions, give them ownership, and reignite their drive to act with the question “What do you think...?”

Target audience

Managers looking to acquire the fundamentals of management.

Learning objectives

Choose the “participative” situational management style at the right moment.
Adapt to your team member's level of competence and motivation.
Understand where their lack of motivation comes from.
Use the question “What do you think?” to foster their engagement.

Module outline

Expert videoUnderstand how to adapt your management style for people who are skilled but unmotivated
AnchoringA quiz and true/false questions to deepen your understanding and reinforce what you've learned
Memo cardDownloadable memo-coaching card: the key takeaways from the expert video
CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment

Models & methods

Participative management; Motivence 3 (skilled but unmotivated); the golden question “What do you think...?”