{"id":21480,"date":"2019-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/shared-and-emergent-leadership-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:47:22","slug":"the-different-demands-of-emergent-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/the-different-demands-of-emergent-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"The different demands of emergent leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In agile and digital teams, we need to move at rapid pace and are often managing complex issues with highly skilled colleagues. In this environment it&#8217;s hard for a single leader to keep up with everything.<\/p>\n<p>The different demands of leadership also require quite different skill sets.<\/p>\n<p>In agile methodology teams deal with this by distributing some common leadership tasks into other roles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the product manager decides what should be worked on and represents the customer<\/li>\n<li>the scrum master drives the process and protects the team from distractions<\/li>\n<li>the agile coach provides facilitation support, coaching and people development<\/li>\n<li>autonomous team members decide how the work should be done<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All 4 of these roles may have been part of a traditional leadership role in the past. By putting more focus and resource behind these tasks we get more leadership overall and this also provides development for team members.<\/p>\n<p>If you want different forms of leadership to emerge in your team, start by thinking through the functions of leadership &#8211; what are the leadership tasks that need to be performed?<\/p>\n<p>Then ask yourself, who in my team is most able and motivated to take on these roles. Even better, why not lead a team meeting discussion around this and see who wants to step up and take on, for example, a more active coaching role for new members of the team.<\/p>\n<p>If you are the leader of the team this may also enable you to free up time to step up and emerge into new leadership tasks of your own.<\/p>\n<p>Is it time for you to let new leadership roles evolve in your team or organization?<\/p>\n<p>Check out an interactive graphic on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/agile-and-digital-training\/\">agile &amp; digital leadership learning path and training module contents<\/a> &#8211; including a module on shared and emergent leadership.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In agile and digital teams, we need to move at rapid pace and are often managing complex issues with highly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-blog","training-agile-and-digital"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The different demands of emergent leadership - Global Integration<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In agile and digital teams, we need to move at rapid pace and are often managing complex issues with highly skilled colleagues. 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