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The Inherent Synergies Between Servant Leadership and Situational Leadership®

The Center For Leadership Studies

Servant leadership is a philosophy that was developed in the early 1970s by Robert Greenleaf. A philosophy, as we know, is a filter of sorts that informs how to process events, develop perspective and make decisions. Suffice to say, when servant leadership was unveiled, it caused quite a stir. What were their needs?

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Four Examples of Situational Leadership®

The Center For Leadership Studies

Perhaps you are familiar with the Situational Leadership ® Model but could use a quick refresher to refine your understanding. Or perhaps you have never heard of the Situational Leadership ® Model but are interested in learning whatever you can about viable methodologies with proven track records for developing leaders.

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Situational Leadership®: Strong Management and the Employee Experience

The Center For Leadership Studies

Coach: He wanted to play for a coach with a proven track record for developing talent that could compete at the highest level (i.e., The second blog in this series explored connections between Situational Leadership ® and meaningful work. Situational Leadership ® is a language of performance management.

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Leadership Development in the Modern Workplace

The Center For Leadership Studies

Decisions that used to uniformly flow from the top down are now informed and initiated from the bottom up. The paragraphs below summarize how leadership has been impacted by each of these organizational realities, and provide perspective on the implications for leadership development moving forward.

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What Does Leadership Mean?

The Center For Leadership Studies

And, even though we have done our best to stay current on all that is out there in the realm of leadership development, we have never perceived the need to edit—or update—or mess around with—what we believe is the essence of descriptive straightforwardness when it comes to defining leadership: Leadership … is an attempt to influence!

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Managing Performance in the Modern Workplace

The Center For Leadership Studies

Objectives Traditionally performance objectives were developed at the beginning of the year. And as far as the directionality of the feedforward, it continues to flow from the top down, but with ever-increasing regularity, it flows from the bottom up as well as “from side to side.” As such, it is by no means the same thing.

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Micromanagement: When it Works and When it Doesn’t

The Center For Leadership Studies

Or, virtually, the kind of boss that would send you an email and almost immediately follow up with an instant message and a text right before they called you to check in and see if you had any questions on what you needed to be doing. There is nothing inherently good or bad about it. It’s like the spark that starts the fire.