1. Situational Leadership: How to Adapt Your
Leadership Style to Get the Best Out of People
MG Merdith (Bo) Temple
Acting Chief of Engineers and Acting Commanding General, USACE
Ms. Nirmala Krishnan
Manager, IT-Engineering Systems, The Boeing Company
Ms. Lakeshia Neerhof
CCM Force Readiness IPT Deputy, Northrop Grumman Information Systems

2. Learning Objectives:
•Identify your personal leadership style
•Explore leadership style model to discover ways to adapt your style
•Participate in mock leadership challenges to practices adapting

3. Principles of Situational Leadership:
•Leadership is a human endeavor.
•Know yourself and know your style.
•Adapt your style as you grow as a leader.
•Develop intuitive situational leadership.
•Seek opportunities and experiences to hone your skills and persevere.

4. Integrated Leadership Quotient Survey
Survey Questions Masculine Traits Feminine Traits
Focus on timeliness as a quick decision that mistake is better than action
Focus on quality of outcome in favor of speed decision
Develop strong and enduring relationships with colleagues, customers, suppliers, alliance
partners and others
Develop strong and tactically strong relationships with colleagues, customers, suppliers, alliance
partners and others
Able to see big picture and connect a wide range of seemingly disparate information into a
cogent rationale for planning
Focus on key areas to form a coherent rationale for planning
Communication style that could be characterized as directive
Communication style that could be characterized as open

5. Questions