Leadership Essentials

Situational Leadership

Training Objectives

  • Increases the frequency and quality of conversations about performance and development and leads to greater competence and commitment.
  • Increases the flexibility and adaptability of managers, which is necessary in order to manage a diverse workforce and successfully manage change
  • Increases leaders’ comfort levels in using a variety of leadership styles such as directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating to increase morale, create a positive work environment, and achieve desired results
  • Builds skill in goal setting, giving work direction, encouraging self-reliant problem solving, listening, observing and monitoring performance, and giving feedback
  • Improves leaders’ effectiveness in managing people so that they become more trusted, more credible, and more helpful, and their direct reports become more productive.

Learning Outcomes

  • Development levels and the four leadership styles
  • How to manage others more effectively by being flexible
  • How to create a common language and framework to use in developing others
  • How to open up communication between leaders and the people they lead
  • The consequences of using inappropriate leadership styles and the negative impact of oversupervision or under-supervision