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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Other videos in our Introduction to Leadership
The Fiedler Contingency Theory of Leadership Effectiveness https://youtu.be/1WeKHqO3IoQ
Tannenbaum & Schmidt: The Leadership Continuum https://youtu.be/IW4XbC8Uc8U
A Generic Situational Leadership Model https://youtu.be/XAu3cIIvOZw
Robert House and Path Goal Theory https://youtu.be/8aMGLxwn5r8
Complexity, Leadership, and the Cynefin Framework https://youtu.be/n-sqvodujTg
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
https://situational.com/
• Blanchard, which markets Ken Blanchard’s trademarked SLII model
https://www.blanchard.com
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.
1. Watch our video, A Generic Situational Leadership Model https://youtu.be/XAu3cIIvOZw
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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
https://geni.us/ZIawP8Y
Start with Why
https://geni.us/D8ZSs
Humble Leadership
https://geni.us/KMuCl
The Leadership Challenge
https://geni.us/nyQ3
The New Leaders
https://geni.us/5ziIw
Shackleton's Way
https://geni.us/Oicsj
Why should Anyone be Led by You
https://geni.us/xugbBk1
The Habit of Excellence
https://geni.us/VIz8Z
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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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