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The Inherent Synergies Between Servant Leadership and Situational Leadership®

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A philosophy, as we know, is a filter of sorts that informs how to process events, develop perspective and make decisions. As opposed to simply communicating priorities and monitoring progress, servant leaders needed to invest in and focus upon the employees on their teams who were doing the work. What “made them tick” as human beings?

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Coaching During COVID-19

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Painting with broad brush strokes for just a moment: Many leaders with access to coaching over recent months appear to have made valuable progress on two fronts—business and people—and on some or all of four key issues: How to find elusive clarity for decisions as business (as life!) remains in a certain level of upheaval and change.

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Situational Leadership® Helps you Create a Safe Working Environment

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And when these elements are present and promoted, your teams feel safe. Dr. Paul Hersey said, “Leadership is coaching … there is no difference.” Can you recognize how the model has consciously or unconsciously helped you to lead in a JEDI fashion? The third, COMMUNICATE, guides leaders to coach for professional development.

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Rethinking Situational Leadership®

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On a personal level (and in complete and total transparency), I don’t know exactly what to say about Marshall, so I will just go with this: He has meant more to my personal development than anyone in my 40-year career and has also meant more to The Center for Leadership Studies and Situational Leadership ® than anyone not named Paul Hersey.

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Four Situational Leadership® Quotes

The Center For Leadership Studies

In many organizations, the indoctrination and onboarding experience of newly hired frontline employees includes training on how to effectively influence others, as well as how to effectively contract for a leadership style with their supervisor. Simply put, it was the way the world worked. Not so much anymore!

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Front-line versus Top-down

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To be more specific, I believe that the front-line is about management and situational leadership is about how to manage , not necessarily lead, teams with diverse backgrounds (Hersey and Blanchard, 1972). In addition, managers should respond different to each individual, since maturity levels are different. Buckingham, M.

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The Pros & Cons of Situational Leadership®

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Each comes with unique strengths, distinct areas of self-development and varying needs Teams are different: Every time an employee joins, or leaves, a team, the dynamic of that team changes Tasks are different: Deadlines can be “manageable” or “impossible.” Much the same when evaluating an organization.