Coaching practices for Situational Leadership Performing
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- My team is genuinely running well without me now, but I keep inserting myself into decisions they could make
- I’ve quietly filed each person on my team as strong or weak, and then I’m baffled when my "strong" one flounders on something new
- Everything still flows through me
- Someone on my team is underperforming and I keep collapsing the two things together
Practices that may help
- Situational Leadership, Made Practical
Situational Leadership, developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, says the right leadership style depends on the follower’s readiness for a given task: match how much you direct versus support to where the person actually is. It is enormously popular in corporate training, but its empirical support is genuinely weak — treat it as a useful thinking tool, not a validated law. - Supporting — step back on direction, stay high on support
For the capable-but-cautious performer, lighten the instructions and bolster their confidence.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - Delegating — hand over both direction and decision
With a skilled, committed performer, give the goal and the authority, then get out of the way.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - Build the flexibility to switch styles
The skill the model actually demands is style range — most leaders overuse one default.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - Performing: step back and protect the conditions
A Performing team needs air cover and resources, not direction.
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development - Assess readiness task by task, not person by person
Rate competence and commitment for the specific task in front of them, not the person overall.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - Coaching — high direction and high support for the disillusioned learner
When early enthusiasm dips but skill is still forming, combine clear guidance with active encouragement.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - Directing — high direction for the eager novice
With someone new and keen but unskilled, give clear, specific instruction and tight structure.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - Distribute leadership rather than centralizing it
Develop leadership capacity throughout the team, not just in the designated leader.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Lead with empathy and acceptance
Accept the person fully even while refusing to accept poor performance.
Servant Leadership, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Does Situational Leadership Work
Situational Leadership, developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, says the right leadership style depends on the follower’s readiness for a given task: match how much you direct versus support to where the person actually is. It is enormously popular in corporate training, but its empirical support is genuinely weak — treat it as a useful thinking tool, not a validated law.
- Situational Leadership At Work
Situational Leadership, developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, says the right leadership style depends on the follower’s readiness for a given task: match how much you direct versus support to where the person actually is. It is enormously popular in corporate training, but its empirical support is genuinely weak — treat it as a useful thinking tool, not a validated law.
- Situational Leadership For My Teenager
Situational Leadership, developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, says the right leadership style depends on the follower’s readiness for a given task: match how much you direct versus support to where the person actually is. It is enormously popular in corporate training, but its empirical support is genuinely weak — treat it as a useful thinking tool, not a validated law.
- Situational Leadership When Starting Out
With someone new and keen but unskilled, give clear, specific instruction and tight structure.
Directing — high direction for the eager novice
- What Is Situational Leadership
Situational Leadership, developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, says the right leadership style depends on the follower’s readiness for a given task: match how much you direct versus support to where the person actually is. It is enormously popular in corporate training, but its empirical support is genuinely weak — treat it as a useful thinking tool, not a validated law.
- Situational Leadership As A Caregiver
Situational Leadership, developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, says the right leadership style depends on the follower’s readiness for a given task: match how much you direct versus support to where the person actually is. It is enormously popular in corporate training, but its empirical support is genuinely weak — treat it as a useful thinking tool, not a validated law.
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