Situational Leadership®

How Leadership Impacts Company Culture

  Your organization has a culture, whether you know it or not. If you’re not proactively building and shaping your company culture, it’s being created unintentionally. Without a unifying culture, people feel frustrated and disengaged. That will be detrimental to morale, productivity and, eventually, the success of your business. Discover how leadership affects company culture, the qualities of effective leaders and […]

Five Tips for Leading Multigenerational Teams

Analyzing generational differences is a popular topic as people try to understand the unique experiences each generation goes through. However, leading members of multiple generations can be challenging, especially when it comes to communication and work styles. This article provides tips on how to bridge any “generation gaps” that could come into play. CONTACT US […]

Adaptable Leadership: It’s Situational AND Social

Diversity Training and Leadership

Berkley Baker, a highly talented Master Facilitator at The Center for Leadership Studies, was in town conducting a Situational Leadership® workshop. I made it a point to catch up with him as the last of the learners left our training room and we somehow wound up talking about diversity training or, more accurately, bad diversity […]

Cheerleading is NOT a Leadership Style

Sometimes learners leave training experiences with a false impression. Perhaps they were drifting in and out of consciousness during the training itself, perhaps they selectively locked in on a portion of the message that confirmed a personal comfort level, any number of reasons, really, but it happens. CONTACT US > A Case Study For example, […]

Why Leaders Need to Be Consistent and Flexible, Part 2

Why Leaders Need to Be Consistent and Flexible, Part 1

Five No-Cost Tips for Improving Employee Engagement

The statistics on employee engagement are abysmal. Numbers vary, but it’s safe to say that approximately three-quarters of U.S. employees feel some level of disengagement at work. If you’re struggling with improving employee engagement at your workplace, you’re far from alone. Unfortunately, low employee engagement leads to higher turnover. And, in today’s tight job market, […]

“Rumble” With Your Readiness

At The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS), we recently adopted into our family a very celebrated researcher, author, professor, mother, speaker and now Netflix celebrity: Brené Brown. She just doesn’t know it yet. One or two of us got hooked on her books and when her most recent “Dare to Lead” came out, the CLS […]

Common Mistakes Good Leaders Make

Leadership is difficult, now more than ever. With that thought in mind, consider the following recurring challenges Situational Leaders encounter and work their way through! CONTACT US > First Impressions Steps 1 and 2 of the Situational Leadership® Model (Identify the specific task and assess current Performance Readiness®) are both grounded in the DIAGNOSTIC competency. […]

Government: A Situational Leadership^® Success Story

A Moment of Reflection on 50 Years

I started working at The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS) in June of 1983, and I was so very honored to do so! My job at CLS was well-defined. We had a packaged program (The Essentials of Situational Leadership®) that I was responsible for selling and, if need be, facilitating. There was no internet. Nobody […]