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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 ® ? It depended!

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Four Situational Leadership® Quotes

The Center For Leadership Studies

The Situational Leadership ® methodology is a “50 – 50 model.” It has been in active use for over 50 years, and it was created approximately 50 years after the discipline of organizational behavior and leadership development began. Leadership is never over (Organizations change, jobs change and so do people.).

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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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Three Management Styles

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Great Leadership regular contributor Paul Thornton: Management style greatly affects employees’ motivation and capacity to learn. The basic concepts presented in this article are derived from the “Situational Leadership Theory Model,” developed by Ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey.

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Front-line versus Top-down

LDRLB

A few weeks ago I got into a conversation about whether situational leadership was more appropriate for top-level or front-line leadership. I argued that situational leadership is most appropriate for front-line leadership. Management of Organizational Behavior: Utilizing Human Resources (2nd ed.)New

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The Bliss and Challenge of the R2 Diagnosis

The Center For Leadership Studies

In the Situational Leadership ® Model, a person is R2 for a task when the leader doesn’t see ability (all three of knowledge, experience and skill), but the follower’s confidence and willingness are shining through in their attitude and approach to the work. 1 Hersey P, Blanchard KH, Johnson DE. Management of Organizational Behavior.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Behavior Sciences. I wrote “great teachers” and “very generous.”