Situational Leadership®

The Core

Needs

Today's workplace is characterized by constantly changing dynamics.  Now, more than ever, responsive leadership is a critical factor in organisational success.  To be effective, leaders need to adapt their styles to fit a broad range of individual and team situations.

Learning in Action's Situational Leadership® Core one-day course offers a new look at a classic leadership programme.  It's proven, practical, and thoroughly updated to meet today's business challenges.

The course is divided into four modules:

1. Influencing the Performance of Others

• What is effective leadership?
• What is power?
• Leadership competencies.
• Leadership style self-assessment.
• Communicating Performance outcomes.

2. Assessing Criteria for Performance

• Surfacing the real Task.
• Characteristics of Readiness.
• Readiness levels.

3. Attributes Of Leadership

• Leader behaviour.
• Leadership styles.
• Application of the Situational Leadership Model.
• Leadership style self-assessment feedback.

4. The Leader as a Catalyst for Change

• The Regressive cycle  
• The Development cycle
• Action planning

Outcomes

Typical course outcomes are that participants will:

• Be able to define management and leadership, and the differences between them.
• Understand the distinction of job, task, and activity.
• Identify and understand how ability and willingness contribute to Readiness.
• Be able to use Readiness as a diagnostic tool.
• Be able to explain the terms "task behaviour" and  "relationship behaviour" and describe examples of them.
• Know which leadership styles have the highest probability of success in various situations.
• Develop the ability to choose leadership styles that match the readiness levels of followers.
• Understand the short and long term consequences of style/leadership mismatches.
• Understand the strengths, and areas for development of their own leadership style profile.
• Identify the approach necessary when regression occurs in follower readiness.
• Be able to recognize situations where the developmental cycle should be used.
• Design an action plan to put Situational Leadership® to work, at work.

Methodology

Learning in Action uses an experiential learning approach which enables people to learn by doing, and also to reflect, examine and assess what they have done.   This usually leads to new  or improved understanding, which in turn guides future actions.  Typically, we introduce a topic, involve participants in an experiential activity related to the topic, review the learning and help people to develop the applications to their own situation.

The learning environment that we create is both stimulating and challenging, whilst also being supportive.

To maximise learning we recommend that each participant has the opportunity to lead an activity.  As part of the debrief of the activity, the leader will be asked to review his/her own performance and to seek feedback from the group and  Learning in Action facilitator(s)...(a session on giving and receiving feedback is covered early in the course to ensure that participants are skilled in both communicating feedback.) This provides the opportunity for focused personal feedback and coaching.

The Core course involves the use of video and/or DVD presentations, simulations and behavioral demonstrations.  Each participant will receive:

• a Participant Guide
• Personal leadership style feedback
• Diagnostic skill builders
• Leader action plan

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