Situational Leadership
This leadership program offers leadership skills for corporate managers to develop their employees with effective coaching and mentoring. Situational Leadership is built on the premise that leadership styles must be matched to the development level of the employee. To elaborate, inexperienced employees require a more directing leadership style; as employees gain experience, the leadership style is changed to that of a coaching style. After considerable employee experience and especially when an employee is given additional responsibilities, the leadership style changes from coaching to that of a supporting style to enable the employee to embrace that new responsibility. Finally, with seasoned employees, the manager applies the delegating leadership style, relying much more on the established talents of the employee. This approach to leadership is both natural and easily endorsed by management staff. The formal training programs provides the understanding and skill sets required to develop the flexibility and sensitivity by the manager to determine what style of leadership to apply to the development level of the employee.
This presentation of Situational Leadership also included the D.i.S.C behaviroral style model applied on the leadership level. This model is briefly reviewed by viewing the Team Effectivness Menu on this Site. Frequently the manager's behavioral style, D.i.S.C, gets in the way of flexing his/her leadership style. It is for this reason that this Situational Leadership program is offered on two levels of understanding and application. In short, effective leaders must provide appropriate leadership styles to the developmental level of the employee while also being mindful of each other's behavioral style.
To both understand and apply Situational Leadership, this program is offered on two skill development levels:
Introductory Situational Leadership
This one-day course introduces the Situational Leadership model, together with the D.i.S.C behavioral style model for the purpose of understanding the implications of effective coaching and mentoring. At this level of understanding and application of the two models, it is expected that the applicant receives the basic skills of coaching and mentoring to apply the appropriate leadership style to match with the development level of the employee. Furthermore, beginning levels of D.i.S.C application will help the beginning practitioner of Situational Leadership to communicate more effectively for person's with different D.i.S.C styles.
Advanced Situational Leadership*
This two-day seminar uses the Situational Leadership II manual, known as The Bridge Program which interconnects advanced applications of the D.i.S.C to Situational Leadership styles. This course provides in-depth assessment and coaching skills required to respond to various employee development and/or problem situations which require flexible and competent approaches to Situational Leadership applications. At this advanced level, tools are provided to assess the development level of the employee to which the appropriate leadership style needs to be matched. The extensive manual provided serves both as a training vehicle for this workshop and a reference manual for future coaching situations encountered by the participant in his/her continued leadership functions.
*Prerequsite
Click on D.i.S.C. for more detail on the Introductory Level D.i.S.C. behavioral-style process.