Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Why One-Size-Fits-All Leadership Fails (Do This Instead)

8 May 2025 · 1 min

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Cameron Herold breaks down situational leadership with a scoring system: rate each person's skill and confidence from 0 to 2, then match your approach. A score of 1 means micromanage. A 4 means delegate without praise. The method adjusts how you lead based on who you're leading.

Questions this video answers

Skill and confidence (each scored 0–2).

Give the project to someone else.

Micromanage them.

Show them the plan, give step-by-step instructions, and explain why parts are done.

Have them develop the plan with the manager available to assist.

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I follow a style of manager of leadership called situational leadership. It was developed by Paul Hersey, Dr. Paul Hersey, and Ken Blanchard. Ken wrote the book the One Minute Manager. And it talks about adapting your leadership style based on the skills and the confidence of the person working on that particular project. So let's say if I was going to coach you on sales outreach, you can give yourself a one on confidence and a one on skill that that totals two potential points. If a person gets a total of zero points, zero skill and zero confidence, I'm going to give the project to someone else. If they have a total of one point, I'm going to micromanage them. If they have two points, I'm going to show them the plan, give them the step by step on how to do it, and explain why we do some of it to help them kind of understand it a little bit. If they have a total of three points, I'm going to get them to develop the plan. I'm going to be there to assist if they need help in making their plan. If they have a total of 4 points, I delegate the project and I don't even praise them.