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The History of the Situational Leadership® Framework

The Center For Leadership Studies

The Situational Leadership ® framework was the product of over 50 years of pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior. One challenge with those discoveries is that many provided conflicting results regarding who leaders were, what they did and what the most effective style of leadership was.

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A Moment of Reflection on 50 Years

The Center For Leadership Studies

I started working at The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS) in June of 1983, and I was so very honored to do so! We had a packaged program ( The Essentials of Situational Leadership ® ) that I was responsible for selling and, if need be, facilitating. Our founder, Dr. Paul Hersey, had seen to that. There was no internet.

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Making A Transition to Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

Promotion to a leadership role changes all that. In fact, a promotion to a leadership role demands the establishment of a professional distance between the leader and those who work under his or her supervision if it is going to be effective. With promotion to a leadership role comes a change in the balance of power.

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