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Situational Leadership

Adapt and Thrive

Chaired by
Kate Sturdy

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Overview

Every leader is different and there is not one leadership style for every situation. Situational leadership allows you to  adapt your leadership style to each specific task to meet the needs of your team at any given time.

By adopting this technique, become a stronger problem solver, complete tasks more effectively and ensure your staff are achieving their full potential.

Attend our Situational Leadership training course to understand the theory behind Situational Leadership, use interactive exercises to learn how to apply the different models and gain expert advice to help you chose the techniques that best suits you.

Leave the day with a range of tools and an action plan that you can apply back at your organisation.



Executive Coach and Mentor

Kate is a qualified executive coach and mentor (L7, Institute of Leadership and Management).  She has 20 years senior leadership and management experience in local government, private sector and the UK civil service, working extensively with Boards, senior public sector policy and strategy leads, front-line practitioners and politicians. She has advised Secretaries of State on strategic policy direction, and led significant areas of policy reform in children’s services, child poverty and workless families policy.

Kate has a strong track record in learning and development and change management. She is an experienced facilitator, currently leading group coaching sessions with Thresholds Ltd to help participants build and practice the skills to succeed at interviews….


Kate Sturdy


Learning Outcomes

  • Understand and apply the situational leadership technique

  • Deep-dive into the various situational leadership models

  • Adopt a leadership approach that best suits you





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Agenda

09:00 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Learning Objectives

10:00 - 10:30 Theory of Situational Leadership

  • Gain an overview of the four different leadership styles

  • Examples of when each style is typically used 

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00 “Telling” Leadership Style

  • Leverage task and relationship behaviours

  • Learn how to create better movement from your teams

  • Drive direction through more effective communication techniques


12:00 - 13:00 “Selling” Leadership Style

  • Secure buy-in for your decisions

  • Share your vision with your teams

13:00 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 14:30 “Participating” Leadership Style

  • Learn how to create alignment between leader and team

  • Encourage greater input through active listening

  • Support followers to take risks

  • Recognise and reward team members’ skills

14:30 - 14:45 Break

14:45 - 15:30 “Delegating” Leadership Style

  • Learn how to build autonomy in your team members and mastery of skills

  • Provide context and the bigger picture

  • Understand when team members can make task-related decisions

  • Develop techniques to monitor and evaluate activities

  • Remain accessible

15:30 - 16:00 Action-Planning

  • Apply the day’s learning so that you can adopt a situational leadership style that suits you, your team members and the circumstances you face

16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation and Close

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