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Hey everyone, it's Lorenzo and welcome
to two Minute Tips on Hacking Leadership podcast.

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Today's two minute Tip has brought to
you by David Hammett. David is

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the founder's CEO of Innovation for Entrepreneurship
at Barnet Management School. As always,

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checked the episode notes for links to
his LinkedIn page. My name is David

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Hammett and you're listening to Hacking your
Leaderships two Minute Tips today. I want

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to talk to you about adaptive leadership
styles, which means changing your management and

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leadership styles adapt to what each of
your team members, customers, or stakeholders

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needs. One of the first things
I try to teach the new leaders and

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my team is that their leadership style
can't be static. Leader's job is ultimately

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to motivate, influence, enable their
team members to be able to progress against

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their goals and their work, and
your role as a leader is to help

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others get things done. I'll give
you an example of this. I recently

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had one of my leaders approached me
and tell me about a situation that he

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handled in a way that I thought
was magnificent. He mentioned that he had

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a team member who was really having
a tough time getting things done. He

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had given him a number of tasks, giving him a deadline, and when

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he came back, none of them
were done. Now, this teammate has

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been going through some personal situations that
have been difficult and his mental state wasn't

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all that great, and this leader
decided that instead of giving the feedback directly,

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he would ask one of his team
members co workers to give that feedback.

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He brought in somebody he trusted,
explained the situation and said, look,

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I need you to give his feedback
because if I give it, it

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might be too much coming from his
boss. But if you give it as

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a co worker, he might be
able to take it better. And that's

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what they did. The situation resulted
in the person really improving their work and

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starting to deliver again, and it
didn't cause them unnecessary mental anxiety. And

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that's exactly what adaptive leadership is all
about. It's about being careful to understand

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what the people you work with need
right, what are their psychological needs,

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how they need to be told things. Is it difficult for them to deal

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with certain management styles? And if
it is, you need to adapt your

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own management style so that that teammate, that customer or that other leader in

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your organization can move forward and get
their own work done.