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Leader Positivity and Team Outcomes: A Literature Review
Abstract Given the high demand for 21st century knowledge work to be completed in group settings, combined with the low percentage of teams who reach high…
The Need for Developing Leaders
Businesses spend more on developing leaders than any other expense item in their training and development budgets (Ardichvili et al., 2016). Such significant investment demonstrates…
Leading from the Middle
Leading from the middle contrasts with top-down leadership and bottom-up leadership (Hargreaves & Shirley, 2019). De Nobile (2019) agreed, asserting middle leaders have distinctly unique…
Unique Attributes of Middle Leadership
Middle leadership is a unique construct with attributes distinct from top-down or bottom-up leadership (Hargreaves & Shirley, 2019). While middle leadership shares some attributes with…
The Nature of Middle Leadership
In recent years, scholars and practitioners have shifted terminology from ‘middle managers’ to ‘middle leaders,’ representing the changing nature of middle managers’ roles as becoming…
Middle Managers’ Role Conditions
A distinguishing characteristic of middle leadership is its position in the middle of the organizational hierarchy and the unique conditions related thereto (Jaser, 2020; Kieran…
Middle Managers’ Leadership Competencies in the Literature
Middle managers are expected to demonstrate a wide set of leadership competencies to motivate themselves and their employees to improved performance (Diskiene et al., 2019)…
Middle Manager Barriers to Exhibiting Leadership Competencies
In both the business and the education literature, researchers identified middle manager barriers to exhibiting leadership competencies. In business, barriers identified in order of most…
Middle Leader Role Description
Middle Leader Role Description in the Business Literature The middle leader role description in the business literature appears more often as middle managers exercising leadership…
Defining Middle Leadership and Middle Leadership Competencies
Defining Middle Leadership Middle leadership is a unique leadership construct including the leadership responsibilities, behaviors, and competencies required by middle managers to perform as leaders…
Coaching Essentials
Coaching, as a professional domain, is an emerging area of practice. In fact, there is no single agreed upon definition of professional coaching, though most…
Hybrid Leadership Competencies … or Structures?
Because my doctoral dissertation focused on leadership competencies, I am often asked: What are the new competencies/skills that leaders need in this new hybrid environment?…