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Course Outline
Course Learning Design
Day one:
- Overview & Principles of the Situational Leadership Model
- 4 steps to applying the model
- Task vs. Person focus
- Assessing Readiness
- Matching Leader Response
- Manage the Movement (progressing vs. regressing)
- Review assessment results
- Human Systems and the Sit Lead Model
- Structure employee discussions
- COINS Feedback Model
- Role Plays (Level 1, Level 2, Level 3)
- Plan employee discussions
- Apply Situational Leadership model
- Apply COINS feedback model
Course Schedule
Registration Date/Time:
11/3/2026 07:30am Central Time
Event Dates/Times:
- 11/3/2026 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 11/4/2026 8:00am - 3:00pm Central Time
Location and Lodging
Course Location
Lodging
Accommodations include: Enjoy complimentary business center, WiFi and Local/Airport Shuttle. Each room has a refrigerator, microwave, 42-inch HDTV, and executive desk. Parking available $15/night.
Room: rates start at $160
Accommodations include: Complimentary WiFi, Local/Airport Shuttle, Pool, and Fitness Center.
Accommodations include: Your stay includes hot breakfast buffet, fitness center, business center, convenient on-site parking. Guest rooms are complete with Keurig coffee maker, refrigerator, complimentary high-speed Internet, and 40-inch, flat screen, high-def TVs.
Course Notes
This is an in-person course. Please be prepared to attend all days in-person.
The link to access the online course materials will be provided a few days before the course. Please watch the email address that you provided during registration.
Instructor and Program Director
Instructor
Kimberly Kleiman-Lee
Founder & CEO
Kimberly Kleiman-Lee knows that humans are the most interesting part of work. Kimberly served General Electric for 20 years; with her final 7 years teaching and coaching at Crotonville (GE’s corporate university.) Her team led the company’s Culture and Leadership Learning & Development strategy and solutions for 330,000 employees. Her honest, intuitional, and methodical approach to individual and team development earned her the respect of leaders throughout GE. In addition to serving her team, her individual work focused GE’s top 5000 leaders - teaching, coaching, provoking, and inspiring change. She founded KKL & Co. in 2017 and her practice includes executive coaching, leadership workshops, and business strategy. Her services engage the ‘Whole Human’ often with humor, rarely with PowerPoint. Kimberly believes that the best way to learn about the world is to be out in it.
Kimberly obtained her BA from the University of Wisconsin Madison and her Masters in Adult Education and Leadership Studies from Loyola University Chicago. She is a hopeful guitarist, triathlete, and a certified Black Belt (Six Sigma kind).
Program Director
Shalini Bhat
Additional Information
Your fellow learners
Learn with peer technical leaders interested in developing the competence and commitment of others. Your classmates will represent various public and private organizations from across the country.
Course features
The course is based on The SLII Experience® created by Dr. Ken Blanchard and other leaders at Blanchard®. Using the SLII® highly interactive approach, you will learn and practice the three skills of a situational leader: goal-setting (aligning on what needs to be done), diagnosis (collaboratively assessing an individual’s competence and commitment on a specific task or goal) and matching (using a variety of leadership approaches, comfortably, to provide individuals with what they need to complete tasks or achieve goals).
Your SLII® participant materials include:
- LBA II® Questionnaire (self-assessment tool)
- SLII Fitness Test (self-assessment Tool)
- SLII Resource and Activity Workbook
- Interactive Worksheets for Team Leaders
- Conversation Starters for Team Leaders
- SLII Challenge: 12 Mastery Modules
- The SLII Playbook: 9 Play Implementation Plan
Post-course, you will have access to a team member kit that is designed to help you share SLII with your team and/or key cross-functional co-workers. These downloadable tools include:
- Learn SLII Model Article
- Learn SLII Model PowerPoint
- SLII Mobile App (iPhone, iPad, Android, or Web)
- Interactive Worksheets for Team Members
- One-on-One Conversion Starters for Team Members
This course is part of the Technical Leadership Certificate. Course may be taken individually as well.