Leading for the Situation: Situational Leadership

Focus on tailoring your guidance and support to each individual rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach.
  • Dr. York
  • Level: Foundational
  • Study Mode: Self-paced
  • Recommended Period: 1 Week
  • Estimated Learning Time: ~7 Hours
  • Proficiency: 1 Graded Assessments
  • Award: 1 Certificate
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To ensure the best continuity in your learning, we recommend completing the course within the recommended completion period. The course is self-paced, so you can adapt your learning schedule around work and other commitments.
Course overview
Leading for the Situation is a one-week applied micro-course in Situational Leadership. It teaches a single, practical skill — adapting your leadership to the person and the task in front of you — as a discipline of judgement rather than a personality quiz.

You choose one real team member and one specific goal in the opening lesson and carry them through all six, learning to read the two behaviors behind every leadership style, diagnose a person's development level, and match your style to it. By the end of the week, you hold a partnering-for-performance plan for someone you actually lead, built to a published quality standard.
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  • Leadership
  • Situational Leadership
  • People Management
  • Team Development

Your Instructor

Taught by a practitioner. Moderated by the same.
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Professionally, Dr York has worked in several hospitals in the Montreal area as a critical care technician in operating rooms and emergency departments, where he has been directly responsible for patients' life support. Dr. York is an active healthcare professional and instructor with numerous certifications and is a Fellow of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada.
Dr. Donald York holds the position of Professor of Leadership Studies and Dean of Student Development at Monarch Business School Switzerland. Dr. York holds a D.Phil. & M.Phil. in Business Research with distinction from Monarch Business School and an M.A. in Counselling & Spirituality from St-Paul University, a college of the University of Ottawa. He also holds a B.A. in Behavioural Neuropsychology from McGill University in Montreal, where he also completed a Graduate Diploma in Leadership.

Dr York’s academic interests focus on: leadership, spirituality, organisational culture and group dynamics. He is an active supervisor and dissertation reviewer at the Master's and Doctoral levels. He is a Certified Management & Business Educator with the Chartered Association of Business Schools in the UK.