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Blake Mouton Managerial Grid - Leadership Training from MindTools.com

A popular framework for thinking about a leader’s ‘task versus person’ orientation was developed by Robert Blake and Jane Mouton in the early 1960s. Called the Managerial Grid, or Leadership Grid, it plots the degree of task-centeredness versus person-centeredness and identifies five combinations as distinct leadership styles.

Understanding the Model

The Managerial Grid is based on two behavioral dimensions:

• Concern for People – This is the degree to which a leader considers the needs of team members, their interests, and areas of personal development when deciding how best to accomplish a task.
• Concern for Production – This is the degree to which a leader emphasizes concrete objectives, organizational efficiency and high productivity when deciding how best to accomplish a task.

Using the axis to plot leadership ‘concerns for production’ versus ‘concerns for people’, Blake and Mouton defined the following five leadership styles:

"The leader is the one who takes less of the credit and more of the blame"

Become fearless and not fearsome manager..

Blog | How to Become a Fearless Manager

To be a fearless manager, and a leader, you need to be determined, confident, and bold. Here are some steps you can take to become a confident manager:

Address needed changes:

As a manager, you need to confront realities within your organization. Develop vision, strategies, and measurements to bring change to your organization.

Set the bar high…and act on it:

Demand more from your employees, your peers, your superiors, and most important, yourself. If your employees stay late and put in extra hours, stay late too. Those around you will begin to look toward you as an inspiring figure within the company—a truly confident leader.

Demand accountability and decisiveness:

Focus on having single points of responsibility, that will the need of consensus from all different teams while also revealing any weak points on your team. 

There is fine line of being fearless and fearsome...So be mindful of that and become a fearless Manager!!!!