True leaders realize there is always room for improvement. Recognizing that you are a task-oriented leader means you have already taken the important first steps to analyze your own leadership style.

Task orientation and employee orientation are the two general components of the Blake Mouton Managerial Grid, a model of leadership Robert Blake and Jane Mouton developed in the early 1960s. This ...

6. Assign team leaders that are both task- and relationship-oriented. The debate has traditionally focused on whether a task or a relationship orientation creates better leadership, but in fact both ...

What factors influence the types of goals we set? Will I aim to excel or just get by? Of course, both person and situation variables interact in the process of goal setting. This recent study helps us ...

During the Covid-19 lockdown, Georgia Tech professor David Sluss conducted a survey to determine how a leader's patience affects their influence on their direct reports during challenging times. The ...