Over the past 30 years the Center for Leadership Studies has built great leaders who learn how to build great teams in global industry-leading corporations, organizations and government agencies. We bring you the original, authentic, timeless Situational Leadership^® process and model that promises your CLS-trained leaders will never encounter a situation they can’t handle. Never.

You’ll discover our value is not what we bring to you; it’s what we leave behind.

Reserve your place to participate now in the powerful CLS Original Situational Leadership^® workshop and Train-The-Trainer events in London January 18 – 20, 2012.

We’ll help you build your next generation of great leaders. Enroll now for our open registration workshops. Join our 2-day Situational Leadership^® In Action Workshop or register for a 3-day Train-The-Trainer course to become certified to train Situational Leadership^®.

Is your company already licensed? Attend all 3 days.

Day 1
Situational Leadership^® In Action

• Learn the foundations of the Situational Leadership^® Model
• Identify Performance Readiness^® Levels and why they matter
• Match then practice Leadership Styles
• Experience the LEAD Self Assessment

Day 2
Situational Leadership^® In Action

• Practice Situational Leadership^® through interactive activities
• Utilize the LEAD Other Assessment to determine how others perceive your influence behaviors
• Explore the Developmental & Regressive Cycles of the Situational Leadership^® Model.

Day 3
Train the Trainer Certification Course

Learn the skills to train our exclusive Situational Leadership^® programs and courses within your organization. Become certified to train by exhibiting the necessary skill and ability in a comfortable classroom setting.

• Explore the facilitator guide and presentation technology
• Take advantage of “teach back” opportunities with your instructor and peers
• Demonstrate that you possess the knowledge and skill necessary to successfully train Situational Leadership^®

*The Train the Trainer course does have special requirements. To learn more about becoming a Certified Situational Leadership^® Trainer within your organization, please contact us 1-800-330-2840 or click here.

Is Your Company Stagnant?

As we seem to be turning the corner of this severe recession, many companies are finding themselves in the doldrums, stagnant, feeling stuck. That is the common complaint that we hear at CLS from both existing and new clients. We anticipate this malady will only spread in the future. As leaders, let us look back at what has happened as so many organizations emerge from weathering the storm.

First of all, survival might be viewed as an achievement. Many organizations closed their doors over the past two years. But self congratulations are not in order in view of what has happened to our organizations.

Streamlining Fallout – When the economy went sour, many organizations had to let people go. How much expertise, potential and production capacity was also let go? Being fiscally prudent as well as relying solely on systems, eventually takes its toll. Further, for remaining employees, there was damage to trust and loyalty.

Generational Problems – The Baby Boomers with broken or dead 401K plans have hung onto their leadership positions, unable or afraid to exit their roles. Generation X – always suffering as the “sandwich” generation – again has been squeezed out of the market in favor of younger, cheaper Millennials or have been pre-empted from leadership roles by lingering Boomers.

Boomer Retirement Woes – When Boomers start exiting the market over the next five years, there will be a brain drain as leadership intellectual property (IP) walks out the door with them. Is there time for the torches to be properly passed? Will disenfranchised Xers be able to fill the leadership gap and rejuvenate your company?

“High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance…so very often belief creates fact.”

– Dr. Paul Hersey

Right now the answer lies in your people, specifically your leaders. High achieving leaders are the ones to show you the way out of the doldrums and into prosperous growth. Actually this is always true, but more so in the current economic climate. Your executive team needs to step up with their own resilient leadership behavior and begin reinvesting in people, fostering leadership at every level in your organization. How to move forward beyond stagnancy needs to be in every conversation your organization is having right now.

For companies that are seeking substantial results, recessions are the best time to soar, while your competition is busy being fiscally prudent, streamlining and hunkering down.