In this discussion, let’s focus on the diagnostic stage of effecting change in a business.
In this discussion, let’s focus on the diagnostic stage of effecting change in a business.
Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership model has been a big hit in the business world, and these two academics have a well-known business training and consulting program for corporate executives.
Situational leadership involves four types of leadership styles: directing (also called “telling”), coaching (also called “selling”), supporting, and delegating. The style a Situation Leader will use depends on the maturity level of themselves and their employees. A leader with the wrong level of maturity may make mistakes when attempting to resolve workplace situations. In addition, an employee with a low level of maturity may not implement the solution as intended by the leader. The two mistakes that come to mind that a Situational Leader could make are misdiagnosing a situation or not allowing subordinates to take accountability for their actions in implementing the planned solutions. Let’s look at one of these two challenges that Situational Leaders face every day, diagnostic inaccuracy.
Diagnostic Inaccuracy
Two stages of situational leadership model involve (1) diagnosing a problem and then (2) allowing subordinates to take responsibility for its implementation. Diagnostic competency is based upon the leader’s ability to ask the right questions and then paying attention and listening to answers while also remaining objective. Diagnostic inaccuracies occur when a leader lets distractors into their decision-making process, such as gut feelings and intuition, rather than sticking to the exact science of objectively asking the right questions. If a Situational Leader gets off track, the problem may take the leader down the proverbial rabbit hole, never to be seen again. Asking the right questions and listening closely to the answers should elicit a reasonable interpretation of the problem under scrutiny.
Your First Post:
Think back to a time when a business leader you know was either unsuccessful or successful in recognizing a problem, asking questions, determining a solution, and assigning a follower to implement the solution.
Analyze the whole situation and consider these questions in your discussion response:
What was the outcome of the situation? Why do you think it went the way it did? Was the situation misdiagnosed? Was the leader or appointed follower mature enough for this level of problem?
Finally, address the question, WWYD? (What would you do as a Situational Leader if put in the same situation?)
Your Subsequent Posts:
Read through the responses by your peers and post responses of 100 words to at least two classmates’ posts. Bring in ideas/comments and/or research/readings not mentioned yet.
Remember: To receive full credit in this forum, you need to post a minimum of three quality posts (your own initial post, and responses to two classmates). If you borrow from subject matter experts (authors, speakers, etc.), be sure to give them credit by citing sources. Note that the grading rubric requires a reference to support your discussion or one of the responses you make to a classmate.
Your discussion contributions will be assessed on:
The criteria found in the grading rubric for this assignment:
Quality of Initial Posting
Quality of Responses to Classmates
Reference to Supporting Readings/Information Literacy
Critical Thinking
Timeliness
The references found online, in the Trident Online Library, or in the courses may not be in correct APA format. For this reason, you are expected to research how to correctly format references. Do not just copy citations and expect them to be correct. The basic format of references are:
Author, A. B. (2020, December 25). Title of the article. Title of the Academic Journal, 55(3), 23-28.
55 is the volume number for this fictitious example of a perfectly formatted reference of a journal article. Article titles are never typed in italics.
Author, A. B., Bolden, C., & Cheswick, D. E. (2023). The art of leadership. John Wiley and Son.
This is the reference format for a fictitious book. Book titles never begin every word with a capital letter, but they are always typed in italics. Notice the use of an ampersand before the last listed author.
MacMillan, P. (2020). Modern paradigms of leadership [Video]. Alexander Street. Available in the Trident Online Library.
This is the reference format for a video. The video title is always in italics.
Additional citation and reference style instructions are available at Purdue OWL (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/) and Trident University’s Introduction to APA Style, 7th edition.
You will find the following useful as you critique sources:
Herring, J. E. (2011). Chapter 3: Evaluating websites, Figure 3.1, p. 38. In Improving students’ web use and information literacy: a guide for teachers and teacher librarians. Facet Publishing. Available in the Trident Online Library, EBSCO eBook Collection.
Lack, C. W., & Rousseau, J. (2016). Chapter 4: What is critical thinking? In Critical thinking, science, and pseudoscience: Why we can’t trust our brains. Springer Publishing Company. Available in the Trident Online Library, EBSCO eBook Collection.
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