Imagine everyone in the whole organization feeling fully motivated and fully confident. Imagine everyone always applying good judgment; knowing what to do without being told, acting on what a good job looks like, every day, every time.

Situational Self Leadership™ (SSL™) enables the transition from responsiveness to responsibility as individuals learn to take initiative in using their strengths in idea generation, innovation, problem solving to aid the organization's mission. SSL™ improves the quality of communication employees have together and with their leaders. The SSL™ process provides strategies to gain more satisfaction from work by challenging participants' notion of leadership, that leadership is always from above when leadership is from within too &emdash; leading from their chair. The program is designed to help staff examine what motivates them, how to build their confidence, knowledge, and skills to add even more value as they do their tasks. It shows them how to take initiative, to be innovative, and to solve problems.

SSL™ is a four-part part model that works across cultural, language, and geographical barriers by teaching staff to diagnose their needs at any particular point in time, on any goal or task, and to use the appropriate and most useful communication to gain the necessary leadership approach that matches or responds to the their needs to advance in the task, and to partner with their manager and team in a more dynamic, effective way. This program goes hand-in-hand with Situational Leadership II™ for managers. SLII™ is designed to increase the frequency and quality of conversations about general performance and development between staff and their managers, so that competence is developed, commitment is gained, and accountability is adhered to.

This program is for any employee; individuals seeking to maximize their effectiveness, potential, client and internal service levels, and power (their knowledge, task, position, relationship and personal power) to do their best work.

As a result of the Situational Self Leadership™ training, participants are able to:

• Identify the four levels of development based on personal competence and commitment.
• Determine methods for reaching peak performance to achieve organization mission and goals. Learn how to partner with their manager to increase impact and output.
• Examine the five types of power and learn how they help to achieve goals; their knowledge, task, position, relationship and personal power.
• Develop specific skills to better communicate their needs, wants, problems, solutions and updates to others.

Performance measures:

• Staff take more initiative due to more advanced thinking. There is more problem-solving going on at a staff level. More buy-in to solutions is gained.
• Autonomy is earned not expected.
• Staff have better partnerships with their leaders.
• Staff see their situations from the performance/organization outcome lens and not from a personal standpoint.
• Staff actively solicit feedback.
• Staff levels of confidence and motivation increase. Morale and retention improve.