Formal VS Informal Leadership | Leadership Mindset Webinar | Digital Marketing Institute

Key Takeaways

so okay this particular slide that you can see now obviously there's bit of a bitter fruit let's get my own background but sure don't get bogged down in that it's just I think it's useful for illustrating a few of the key parts essentially we're addressing the idea of formal versus informal leadership and if you see the two top sides you see the ticket color that drill instructor recruit type relationship that tickets in your face it's very hard and a little tactical level you see the Marine Corps general there even a general who is very solid authority has to project himself in a certain way to support but it's based on Authority in a benign way and if you look at this chest of ribbons that's his military CV so his soldiers know who he is where it comes from it's very important but it's it justifies legitimized or moving on down a you see President Trump with their general de Charmin Masters who was his national security adviser McMaster is a very interesting man he's as much a warrior as a diplomat and this was where you know you have the the servant were a type relationship but he has to speak truth to power it requires a military officer to be quite adaptive in his thinking in terms of who deals with the civilian leadership and now moving on and you see an Irish officer there dealing with bears and kids in south Lebanon this is far more informal this is where a soldier has to be much more and fluid in their thinking and their relationship building now we're at a point where I'm sure those of you business can see but this is something that relates to you as well in terms of how you form your relationships and you manage those relationships at the last man there you see a blue beret staches man called confident Quinlan we made a company of Irish troops at a case called chattable it's a battle of 1961 in the Congo you may have heard of it I truly myself I wrote a book about it I'm quite familiar with Pat Quinlan is a very interesting man as a military leader he didn't have much authority he was closed off from the strategic leadership so he resorted back to the basics the fundamentals of what he knew as company commander having a gamer defect and he will I then heavily on informal leadership techniques and adaptive leadership technique techniques in order to hold his position and build and maintain the trust with his troops as a result they held out 150 odd men against a force of 3000 without losing anything right the point here is we have to be agile and we have to be using the tools of the time and if we think back again we invite you to think about good boss bad boss so as you think about that think about the style of leadership that they used formal informal attire - - and for using their own referential power or influence [Music]