Situational Leadership: A Generic Day-to-Day Model

In this video, I will explain the basics of situational leadership, using generic terminology.

Oops! at 08:40, the words 'High Instruction' pop onto screen. They should say 'Low Instruction, of course. My bad! What I say out loud is correct.

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

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📝 LESSON NOTES
In modern situational leadership models, the two primary factors we use to determine an appropriate leadership style are:
• Competence, or capability
• Commitment, or Enthusiasm

Learners progress through a series of stages:
1. Low capability, but high levels of enthusiasm
2. Low (but somewhat growing) capability
3. Emerging capability, with variable enthusiasm
4. High capability, with strong confidence

The four styles of leadership combine different levels of:
• Task-oriented Instruction
• Relationship-oriented support

To give:
1. Instructing
2. Persuading
3. Assisting
4. Entrusting

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🗒️ RECOMMENDED EXERCISES
Think back to two recent times when you had a task for someone. For each instance, assess:
1. their capability to handle that task (2 MC CPD Points)
2. their confidence and enthusiasm to take on that task (2 MC CPD Points)
Then:
3. Determine which leadership style would have been best (2 MC CPD Points)
4. Consider how those styles differ from how you really led your team. What can you learn? (4 MC CPD Points)

📚 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 - A generic situational leadership model
00:14 - The first premise of situational leadership
00:36 - Two primary factors
01:16 - The second premise of situational leadership
01:33 - The first stage
01:45 - The second stage
02:04 - The third stage
02:33 - The fourth stage
02:51 - Assessing stages
03:05 - The four styles of leadership
03:21 - Stage 1 leadership
03:51 - Stage 2 leadership
04:25 - Stage 3 leadership
05:06 - Stage 4 leadership
05:48 - Key point Number 1
06:34 - Key point Number 2
07:39 - To learn more of the detail

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[ManagementCourses]

Situational Leadership is the Best model for new managers and leaders to use, to understand how to get the best from their people, day-to-day. It is easy to learn, straightforward to apply, infinitely adaptable, and... it works.

Oops! at 08:40, the words 'High Instruction' pop onto screen. They should say 'Low Instruction, of course. My bad! What I say out loud is correct.


There are two well-known, and well-protected, situational leadership models. So, here is a generic model that anyone can use, which explains the ideas in a way I find particularly compelling.

[urbanlegendsandtrivia]

Hello again. Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard proposed their situational leadership theory (SIT) about 55 years ago in 1969. Do you believe their words still apply in 2024? In addition, I will start my capstone for my master's degree at American Public University on December 2, 2024. Working with an e-portfolio will be part of the course. Do you have any thoughts or videos relevant to that subject? Thank you.