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Situational Leadership® Theory

The Center For Leadership Studies

Technically, the Situational Leadership ® methodology is not a theory. Dr. Paul Hersey, the founder of The Center for Leadership Studies and the person who developed the Situational Leadership ® Model, went out of his way to make this point clear. “A What is Situational Leadership ® ?

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Rethinking Situational Leadership®

The Center For Leadership Studies

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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Situational Leadership® and DiSC®: Managing the “High C” (CONSCEINTIOUSNESS)

The Center For Leadership Studies

When you attend a Situational Leadership ® training session, you learn that leadership styles are neither “good” nor “bad.” Since leadership is both a complicated and thoughtful endeavor, it stands to reason that leaders will benefit from the ability to integrate tools like Situational Leadership ® and DiSC ®.

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The Difference Between Performance Management and Change Management

The Center For Leadership Studies

Today, as I conduct a gap analysis of sorts between my dreams then and my reality now, I would say I have achieved my approachability objective but (with ever-increasing regularity) feel like I have fallen embarrassingly short when it comes to purveying useful wisdom. Was that a verbatim conversation? Was it pretty darn close?

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What Are the Four DiSC® Personality Types?

The Center For Leadership Studies

They tend to be more receptive to logic, data and analysis than they are to somebody else’s “gut-level feel” or intuition. They are driven by logic and objective analysis. This program integrates the application of the Everything DiSC ® Management Assessment with the Situational Leadership ® Model.

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Leadership Development in the Modern Workplace

The Center For Leadership Studies

Consider the following as a starting point for cultural analysis: The workplace itself – Gallup research suggests that 32% of employees are “engaged.” Providing leadership training exclusively to managers creates an “us vs. them” cultural dynamic. Only 22% of employees feel their manager has a clear direction for their team.

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Getting to the Root Cause of the Great Resignation

The Center For Leadership Studies

With bias duly noted, I would suggest this is a process that bears striking similarity to the deployment of the Situational Leadership ® process by frontline managers at the base of an organization: Step 1 – Identify the task (at its lowest common denominator). So much data available for analysis!