PROGRAM INFORMATION
THE SITUATIONAL EDGE™
BUILDING LEADERS | EMPOWERING | COACHING | LEADING TEAMS

The science, art and process of influencing others successfully and effectively. Success is about influencing others to do the work well. Effectiveness is about influencing others to feel good about doing the work. It is the ability to diagnose the situation; to adapt the influence behavior to match the situation; to communicate an influence approach that others can understand and accept; and to advance by managing the movement toward higher performance.

SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP®: BUILDING LEADERS

Equip leaders in organizations with the tools necessary to skillfully navigate the demands of an increasingly diverse workforce and evolving global economy.
Situational Leadership®: Building Leaders provides leaders with an action-oriented framework that increases both the quantity and quality of performance conversations by matching an individual’s Performance Readiness® Level for a specific task with the appropriate leadership style. This task-specificity is at the heart of the Situational Leadership® approach and is paramount to ensuring that your organization is comprised of capable Situational Leaders who drive behavior change.
A Foundation of Leadership
Situational Leadership®: Building Leaders introduces participants to the Situational Leadership® Model and equips leaders with the necessary tools to skillfully navigate the demands of an increasingly diverse workforce and evolving global marketplace. Widely adaptable to any circumstance, Situational Leadership® prepares leaders to meet the moment-to-moment challenges pervasive in today’s work environments.
   In addition, online or paper-based assessments (LEAD Self and LEAD Other) provide participants with insights into their primary leadership behaviors and the range of styles they tend to act upon.
Course Benefits
  • Prepare leaders to effectively deal with any situation, opportunity or challenge.
  • Teach leaders the skills needed to determine Performance Readiness® among team members.
  • Provide leaders with an action-oriented framework to immediately increase the quantity and quality of performance conversations.
  • Enhance the work environment with improved performance and teamwork.

EMPOWERING SITUATIONAL LEADERS™

Enhance leadership effectiveness and overall team performance by enabling leaders to cultivate their personal and position power bases.
Empowering Situational Leaders™ is a practice-rich workshop that empowers your leaders to challenge any preconceived notions that “power” connotes something negative and discover its practical application and significance in the influence process.
   Participants explore the research that validates the relevance of power in the workplace and the connection between effective leadership and the key three power bases: Legitimate, Referent and Expert power.
   A comprehensive video-based case study provides the context for interactive skill building and peer coaching activities designed to help participants build and leverage their own power bases and become more effective leaders.
Power: A Positive Driver of Influence
The best leaders recognize that leadership isn’t just a function of their position within the organization; they know that leadership is a direct result of how effectively they influence others every single day. The Empowering Situational Leaders™ program demonstrates the interconnected nature of leadership and power and is designed for participants at any organizational level. This program directly supports the use of the Situational Leadership® Model by providing tangible rationale for how power bases impact the effective or ineffective use of leadership styles.
   Participants will engage in immersive, video-driven case study activities and targeted skill building to learn how to develop and leverage their power bases to become more successful leaders.
Course Benefits
  • Validates the relevance of seven power bases in modern organizations within the context of the history of power.
  • Provides immediate actionable strategies for increasing the three primary bases of power that are most critical for leaders to effectively influence others.
  • Utilizes the Power Perception Profile Self assessment as a tool to enhance self-awareness.
  • Empowers participants to develop action-oriented strategies they can implement to enhance their influence potential.

SITUATIONAL COACHING®

In today’s fast-paced global market, your managers must not only successfully lead but actively coach employees in order to achieve desired results.
Situational Coaching® immerses participants in the Situational Leadership® process and its application to drive continuous coaching conversations.
   Leaders are exposed to various coaching tools, as well as a framework proven to unlock and maximize the capabilities of their teams, building their individual and collective capacity for higher levels of current and future performance. Effective coaching promotes creativity, performance excellence and individual resilience — qualities that enhance an organization’s ability to excel within an environment of continuous change and gain a competitive edge.
Unleashing Performance
Situational Coaching® is designed to enable managers to consistently apply effective Situational Leadership® behaviors during performance-related coaching discussions. This workshop provides managers with the tools to unlock and maximize the engagement and performance of their teams, building their individual and collective capacity for higher levels of current and future performance.
   In addition to multiple opportunities for learners to interpret and discuss complex behaviors, there are a number of activities dedicated to practicing the application of Situational Leadership® in coaching situations.
Course Benefits
  • Gain an increased ability to help others maximize their job performance.
  • Reduce stress and increase efficiency by effectively aligning coaching behaviors to coachees’ needs.
  • Apply a coaching discussion framework to conduct more effective coaching conversations.
  • Identify coaching opportunities and assess task-specific Performance Readiness® while monitoring progress.

LEADING TEAMS: A SITUATIONAL APPROACH

Enhance the leader’s ability to maximize the performance potential of each team member, build trust, boost creativity and improve communication among team members.
Leading Teams: A Situational Approach leverages an understanding of the Situational Leadership® Model in order to explore the specific skills that leaders need to transform diverse groups of individuals into cohesive units.
   Participants learn to maximize the performance potential of each team member while building trust, boosting creativity and improving communication so that teams can successfully master true collaboration and gain a competitive advantage.
Managing Collaboration
Leading Teams: A Situational Approach equips managers of teams with the Situational Leadership®Model as a tool to promote cooperation and an understanding of the individual personalities, interpretations, opinions and skill levels within a team.
   Participants explore the differences between groups and teams and how to develop the influence skills and tactics to transform diverse groups of individuals into successful, high-functioning, cohesive units. Learners then practice applying a situational approach to leadership and focus on how to diagnose and address individual exceptions to a team’s performance level.
Course Benefits
  • Recognize characteristics associated with the predictable stages of team development.
  • Understand how to apply leadership strategies with high probabilities of success.
  • Distinguish between leading a team and providing leadership for individual team members.
  • Develop an action plan that can be implemented immediately to accelerate team development.