Leadership Toolbox 3: Developing Distributed Leadership for the Right Context

Distributed Leadership for the new Era

In an era of continuous change and uncertainty, stakeholders’ requirements become more complex. In order to meet those requirements, our team needs to be agile and adaptable as a whole and this is enabled by the leader taking a distributed leadership initiative.

• For task accomplishment, the leader delegates the decision-making power to their team members to respond accordingly, and empowers them to act as they deemed suitable for the development of the team, department or organization.
• The leader is knowledgeable in exploring with the team members on identifying the contexts they are operating in and facilitates team’s responses relevant to the contexts.

Adapting Hill model for Team Leadership into Practice

To effectively put the Hill model for Team Leadership into practice, Northouse (2019) suggests the following conditions to be fulfilled, or to be attempted.

On Team

1. Purposeful Goal: a clearly defined goal or purpose that justifies the team’s existence.
2. Performance Structure: availability of a structure for the monitoring and…