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The Inherent Synergies Between Servant Leadership and Situational Leadership®

The Center For Leadership Studies

Servant leadership fundamentally challenged that convention. Organizations as entities needed to be structured and to operate in a manner that reversed the flow of communication and responsiveness (communication up, responsiveness down). The Situational Leadership ® Model was developed in the early 1970s by Paul Hersey.

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Three Reasons Why The Situational Leadership® Approach Is Effective

The Center For Leadership Studies

Strengths of the Situational Leadership ® Model Organizations have an ever-expanding spectrum of criteria that determines why they adopt one leadership methodology over another. What would explain the popularity of this model over the last six decades with all those people? Accessibility is a big one these days.

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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.