6One-on-One Leadership
Fred Finch and Ken Blanchard
At its best, SLII® is a partnership that involves mutual trust between two people who work together to achieve common goals. Both leader and follower influence each other. Leadership shifts between them, depending on the task at hand and who has the competence and commitment to deal with it. Both parties play a role in determining how things get done.
This chapter provides a guide for creating such side-by-side leadership relationships. What we call one-on-one leadership is a process for increasing the quality and quantity of conversations between managers and direct reports—the people they support and depend on. These alignment conversations not only help people perform better, but they help ...
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