Leadership: Models, Frameworks & Theories

There are a lot of leadership models out there; Situational Leadership, Action Centred Leadership, Path-Goal Theory, Servant Leadership, etc. The following sites provide overviews of some of the common models you’re likely to come across.

Leadership Models (1)

Leadership Models (2)

To add some additional context (and building on Don Clark's work in the second link), here is a helpful article which takes and historical look at the development of the different types of theories of leadership; trait theories, behavioral theories, cognitive theories and transformational theories.

Historical context of Leadership theories

If tou're the type who likes to be able to refer to models and frameworks you may find this site useful. It's a huge list of the different types of frameworks that currently exist broken down in to fice categories; strategy models, change models, leadership models, decision-making models and communication models. A handy starting point if you come across a framework or theory that's unfamiliar to you.

List of models, theories and frameworks

Finally the generous people over at RapidBI have produced a series of free, unbranded PowerPoint slides which demonstrate a wide range of management models and theories.

RapidBI PowerPoint slides