Leadership turnover and delayed managerial development have made coaching and mentoring critical skills for technical leaders. With practical exercises and real-world scenarios, attendees will gain actionable insights to confidently coach in dynamic technical environments.

• Managers, directors, and team leaders responsible for employee development.
• Technical leaders responsible for the development of employees and teams.
• Prospective technical leaders seeking a systematic approach to coaching others.
• Training professionals supporting coaching and mentoring programs.
• Organizational leaders seeking to build bench strength and fill holes in succession planning.

• Master the core skills of situational leadership: goal-setting, diagnosing development levels, and matching leadership approaches.
• Develop communication strategies to guide employees toward self-confidence, self-direction, and achieving organizational goals.
• Apply the Situational Leadership model to address real-world coaching challenges and improve team performance.

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.

Course Learning Design

Day one:

Prework: Situational Leadership (Hersey Model) Self and Others Assessment (2 assessments)

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

Day 2:

• 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

"I left this course with surefire ways to help my staff improve their skills."

"The coursework allowed me to incorporate my own real-life leadership situations, which helped me identify solutions as I learned."

"Learning how to lead by the situation was invaluable and will help me communicate with diverse groups."

"This course provided an excellent perspective on how I can use what I’ve learned in my organization."

Kimberly Kleiman-Lee

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).