John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Leadership

Follow-up test

The three circles model

• Have you been able to give specific examples from your own experience on how the three circles or areas of need – task, team and individual – interact with each other?
• Can you identify your natural bias:
  • You tend to put the task first, and are low on team and individual.
  • For you the team seems more important: you value happy relationships more than productivity or individual job satisfaction.
  • Individuals are supremely important to you: you always put the individual before the task or the team, for that matter. You tend to over-identify with the individual.
  • You can honestly say that you maintain a balance, and have feedback from superiors, colleagues and subordinates to prove it.

Leadership functions ...