what is the situational leadership model by hersey and blanchard 
situational leadership is adapting your style based on who you manage and assign tasks to and the situation the bottom linethe situational leadership model was proposed by paul hersey and ken blanchard in 1996 as a way to guide leaders to more effective leadership based on situations and people because employees work and mature professionally or not the theory suggests that they may respond better to different levels of guidance supervision and instruction the theory behind the model is to use different approaches with employees based on their abilities willingness to work knowledge and experience 