Commercial Situational Leadership Models

In the last video, I described a basic generic model of Situational Leadership. There are two detailed commercial Situational Leadership models on the market:
1. Paul Hersey’s trademarked Situational Leadership® model
2. Ken Blanchard’s trademarked SLII® model

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🏢 Program 3: Managing and Leading Individuals
🏘️ Course 11: Leadership
🏠 Section 3: Situational Leadership

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📝 LESSON NOTES
The original commercial Situational Leadership model was created and marketed by Hersey and Blanchard. But, sometime in the 1990s, the two founders went their own ways, founding:
• The Center for Leadership Studies, which markets Paul Hersey’s Situational Leadership® model
• Blanchard, which markets Ken Blanchard’s trademarked SLII® model

Paul Hersey’s Situational Leadership®
This model starts from four stages of increasing Performer Readiness:
1. Low R1
2. Moderate R2
3. Moderate R3
4. High R4

It plots them onto four leadership influencing behaviors:
1. S1 Telling
2. S2 Selling
3. S3 Participating
4. S4 Delegating

Ken Blanchard’s trademarked SLII®
This model starts from four increasing follower Development Levels:
1. D1 Low Competence, High Commitment
The Enthusiastic Beginner
2. D2 Low to Some Competence, Low Commitment
The Disillusioned Learner
3. D3 Moderate to High Competence, Variable Commitment
The Capable, but Cautious Contributor
4. D1 High Competence, High Commitment
The Self-Reliant Achiever

It plots them onto four leadership styles:
1. S1 Directing
2. S2 Coaching
3. S3 Supporting
4. S4 Delegating🎯

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🗒️ RECOMMENDED EXERCISES
If you did not watch our video about a generic Situational Leadership model, you will learn more about how these models works from that.

📚 RECOMMENDED READING
There are a vast number of Leadership books - perhaps more than on any other management-related topic. And there is also a huge range represented in different lists of the best. This no-doubt reflects the different contexts for leadership.

So, any recommended reading list of leadership books must be particularly subjective. I have chosen those that made me think, and which are of particular value to managerial leaders: not sportspeople, military leaders, or CEOs. In no particular order:

📖 Leaders Eat Last
📖 Start with Why
📖 Humble Leadership
📖 The Leadership Challenge
📖 The New Leaders
📖 Shackleton's Way
📖 Why should Anyone be Led by You
📖 The Habit of Excellence

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🔖 CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 - Modern commercial situational leadership models
00:32 - The two main situational leadership models
01:15 - Two similar, but different, situational leadership models
02:35 - A low-cost, generic, alternative
03:24 - Paul Hersey’s Situational Leadership model
04:23 - Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership II / SLII model
05:40 - Summing up the Hersey and Blanchard models of situational leadership

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In this video, I compare the two main commercial Situational Leadership models: Paul Hersey’s trademarked Situational Leadership model and Ken Blanchard’s trademarked SLII model