SLII® Training
Powering Inspired Leaders™
Use a situational leadership style to achieve success
The world’s most well-known leadership development course, SLII® Training, teaches managers how to forge deep bonds with their employees that have a multiplicative effect. Employee productivity and engagement increase when this occurs.
SLII® experience offers much more than just effective leadership development. Across the enterprise, it provides outstanding ROI.
Proven, time-tested leadership model
SLII® is a practical, easy-to-understand framework to help your manager diagnose employee development for the following tasks: D1 – Enthusiastic Beginner; D2 – Disillusioned Learner; D3 – – Capable, but Cautious Contributor; D4 – Self-Reliant Achiever. Next, managers use appropriate support and coaching behaviors to help them succeed: S1 – Directing; S2 – Coaching; S3 – Supporting; S4 – Delegating.
Our award-winning learning program, The SLII Experience™, combines Blanchard’s latest research and cutting-edge design theory. This creates a learning experience that enables rapid mastery of the method and allows managers to help their direct reports reach new professional heights.
The Right Delivery Options for You
With thousands of qualified facilitators available worldwide, we can give your managers The SLII Experience™ in person or virtually, or we can train your trainers to deliver the course through public or private Training for Trainers courses.
To ensure that your managers can learn the methodology wherever they are and whenever they have the time, SLII® can also be a component of a learning journey or taught in a self-directed online or moderated online version.
The SLII® in-person experience is a 2-day, 8-hour course that uses a four-part learning path to ensure participants master the content and become situational leaders. Live in-person training offers the fullest content and the richest opportunities to practice new behaviors.
LAUNCH— participating in prework assignments, including assessments, accelerates
LEARN— Events teach leaders the skills and language to lead situationally and provide opportunities for one-on-one interaction with participants. (seven hours, including a 45-minute lunch break)
Practice— Leaders build new skills and practice their SLII® vocabulary in activities based on individual job challenges. They learn to match their leadership style and practice SLII® conversations. (9 hours, including a 45-minute lunch break)
Application— Tools and resources are available after the course to help participants strengthen and maintain their SLII® skills.
1 Day Instructor-led Course The SLII® in-person one-day experience uses the same four-part learning route but is eight hours long and more compacted. LAUNCH— To jumpstart the learning process and prepare participants’ minds for real-world problems, participants complete fun prework projects that include assessments.
LEARN— Activities give leaders the abilities and vocabulary to lead in various contexts.
PRACTISE— Activities based on one’s own professional issues help one learn new abilities.
APPLY— Tools and resources available after the workshops to aid participants in honing and maintaining their SLII® skills.
Virtual Instructor-led Course
The SLII® Virtual course consists of five live, two-hour virtual sessions* spread out over a few days. The virtual sessions give learners a fun learning environment incorporating group activities, instruction, and chances to put new abilities to use.
LAUNCH— Prework assignments and assessments help participants organize their thoughts before class.
LEARN (Sessions 1 & 2)— Activities teach leaders the abilities and terminology to lead in various situations.
PRACTISE (Sessions 3, 4, & 5)— In activities focused on their own professional problems, leaders build and practice their SLII® vocabulary.
APPLY— tools and resources to advance and maintain their SLII® skills.
*There is also a shortened option that consists of three 90-minute sessions.
Online Course with Collaboration
The SLII® Collaborative Online Experiences enable participants to learn from their peers and securely hone their abilities through a combination of live weekly sessions conducted by Blanchard experienced facilitators and moderators and asynchronous learning. Cohort-based sessions are spread out over a period of 5 weeks and combine self-directed learning on a cutting-edge platform that encourages interaction through conversations, exercises, reflection, and offline
Online Program
SLII® Online is a self-paced, on-demand training that teaches managers the fundamental ideas of SLII® and gives them conceptual practice. Optional can be added for more practice. The SLII® Online program is a three-hour online course divided into bite-sized modules lasting anywhere from one to twenty minutes. Optional debriefs that promote conversation and cooperation for a blended learning experience are also available. Contains interactive exercises: entertaining, captivating activities range from online discussions to films, games, stories, and case studies.
Online Overview
A self-paced, on-demand course called SLII® Overview introduces the technology while highlighting its key concepts through videos of fundamental material. This 35-minute online overview offers exposure to the key concepts of SLII®. It includes engaging micro-learning activities, videos, games, and worksheets.
SLII® Challenge Simulation
An immersive, simulation-focused experience on Advantexe designed to reinforce, practice, and apply the SLII® framework. Following a series of simulated dialogues, participants select the appropriate response for each circumstance. To show learners the effects of their decisions, scenarios are evaluated against the best practice behavior set for that particular scenario.
Digital kbassets
Our digital kbassets include tools, interactions, and micro-learning movies offering browseable information for just-in-time assistance.
Through digital kbassets, leaders can access adaptable micro-activities such as films, interactions, and worksheets to provide ongoing learning, performance support, reinforcement, and personalized learning journeys.
SLII® Chatbot
Your Leadership Companion, Long After the Room Clears
The real test of any leadership intervention is what happens on Monday morning, back at the desk, back with the team, back in the pressure.
The SLII® Chatbot is built for exactly that moment. Powered by AI, it keeps the SLII framework alive in your leaders' day-to-day reality, sending weekly nudges, practical tips, and reflection prompts that reinforce the method between sessions.
Got a tricky team situation right now? Ask it. Need to recall the right leadership style for a D2 team member before a 1:1? It's there. Available on Teams, WhatsApp, Slack, and Salesforce, the platforms Indian managers actually use.
SLII® App
The Leadership Model, Right in Your Pocket
Great leadership decisions don't wait for the next training session. They happen in real time, in corridors, on calls, before performance reviews, and in the middle of project sprints.
The SLII® App puts the framework where it belongs: in your leaders' hands, in the moment they need it. In seconds, a manager can assess where a team member is on a specific goal and get clear, practical guidance on how to lead them effectively right now.
For Indian organisations managing large, distributed, or multi-generational teams, the SLII® App turns the model from classroom knowledge into a live leadership language.
SLII® Training for Trainers
Build SLII® Capability From Within Your Organisation
The most sustainable leadership culture is one your own people can carry and grow. Blanchard India's SLII® Training for Trainers prepares your internal facilitators to deliver The SLII Experience™ with the same rigour, depth, and impact that Blanchard is known for globally.
This is the right path for organisations that want to:
- Scale adaptive leadership across large teams without external dependency
- Embed a common leadership language into the fabric of their culture
- Build internal coaches who diagnose, not just direct
When your own people can teach SLII, the method stops being a programme and becomes the way you lead.
Award-Winning SLII® Collaborative Online
Learn Together. Lead Better.
Leadership development works best when it's not done alone. The SLII® Collaborative Online programme is a five-week, semi-synchronous learning experience that earned a Bronze award from the Brandon Hall Group.
Each week, participants learn new content, apply it to live team situations, and then refine their thinking through structured cohort discussions guided by a Blanchard leadership expert.
For Indian organisations with geographically distributed leaders, this format offers peer learning cohorts that build shared language across functions and locations.
SLII® Sustainment Series: Keep the Method Alive. Lock In the Behaviour.
The most common failure of leadership training in India is not the training itself – it’s the silence that follows.
Leaders return from workshops with momentum. Within 4–6 weeks, old habits return, team pressures crowd out new behaviours, and the investment quietly fades.
The SLII® Sustainment Series is designed to break that pattern.
This three-part virtual series gives SLII-trained leaders focused, high-impact sessions that reinforce the behaviours driving performance – whether you’re bringing new managers into the SLII language, re-energising alumni who have drifted, or fixing inconsistent application across teams.
Three 2-hour virtual modules:
- Refreshing SLII – Rebuild fluency and sharpen the diagnostic lens
- Practising SLII – Apply the model to real, current team challenges
- Applying SLII – Embed the method as daily leadership behaviour
Why Indian L&D leaders choose the Sustainment Series:
- Scalable – run as a full series or individual modules
- Flexible – facilitated by Blanchard experts or your certified internal facilitators
- Measurable – designed to show visible behaviour change within teams
Because SLII® isn’t a course you attend once. It’s a leadership language you build over time.
Great leaders make meaningful connections
Great leaders give employees what they need when needed. It means having authentic conversations to empower. Follow their development. Be their champion. See their commitment.
Leading situationally is very different from previous management styles. And this approach yields significantly higher returns than other management styles.
54%
of leaders use only one leadership style, regardless of the situation.*
50%
of the time, leaders use the wrong style to meet their people's needs.
Give your leaders the tools to motivate and accelerate performance
The current pace of change is so disruptive it requires visionary leadership. Managers need a leadership training program to prepare them to be agile situational leaders and empower their employees to succeed
Research Driven
Building on more than 30 years of leadership and desire research, SLII® incorporates the latest advances in neuroscience and evolves with the ever-changing workplace.
Proven Results
More than 10,000 companies use SLII® to increase productivity, reduce sales, and increase sales and profits.
Develop Inspiring Leaders
SLII® addresses the need for competence, empowerment, and brain engagement by creating a safe workplace where employees can problem-solve, innovate, and collaborate.
Universally Effective
SLII® is relevant to global leaders, regardless of industry, language, or job role. SLII® teaches leaders to give the right direction or support their people at the right time.
SLII® training enables leaders to build deeper
relationships
With more inspired leaders, morale and cohesion will improve, team members will feel supported, and employees will become more creative and productive problem solvers.
Client Success Story
AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE
Measuring the Effectiveness of SLII® Training at Land O’ Lakes
Learn how Land O’ Lakes improved communication and performance of its sales force with leadership development.
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SLII® can be taught face-to-face, virtually, online, or as a combination of learning modes. Contact us today to learn how SLII® can empower your leaders to make meaningful connections that create exponential impact.