Coaching and Mentoring for Technical Leaders

Course Learning Design

Course Pre-Work

Pre-work materials introducing the course concepts will be communicated to you one week prior to the kick-off of this course.

Leadership for the Future

• A contemporary look at what leaders need in today’s diverse, multi-generational workplace to be successful and effective
• Learn why The SLII Experience® approach is a language as well as a strategy for coaching and mentoring others that optimizes employee development and an organization’s success

Goal Setting: The 1st Skill of a Situational Leader

• Learn how to help others develop goals that are specific, motivating, attainable, relevant, and trackable (SMART Goals)

Diagnosis: The 2nd Skill of a Situational Leader

• Discover how to diagnose an individual’s development level to perform a given task or goal and provide the appropriate direction and support to achieve success
• Learn how to use the four leadership styles (strategies)—each with a different combination of directive and supportive behaviors that provide just what the individual needs to perform in a given situation

Matching: The 3rd Skill of a Situational Leader

• Find out how using the appropriate leadership style in a given situation optimizes the employee’s development and saves you time
• Practice how to match your leadership approach to individuals’ development levels
• Demonstrate how to open up communication and involve others in setting goals and reaching agreements about the support and direction that you need to achieve personal and organizational goals
• Learn how to manage development regression by staying in close touch with performance and development

Addressing a Challenging Coaching Situation

Practice using The SLII Experience® approach to address a real-world coaching situation that you are challenged within the workplace.

Your fellow learners
Learn with peer technical leaders interested in developing the competence and commitment of others. Your classmates will represent various public and private organizations from across the country. 

Course features

The course is based on The SLII Experience® created by Dr. Ken Blanchard and other leaders at Blanchard®. Using the SLII® highly interactive approach, you will learn and practice the three skills of a situational leader: goal-setting (aligning on what needs to be done), diagnosis (collaboratively assessing an individual’s competence and commitment on a specific task or goal) and matching (using a variety of leadership approaches, comfortably, to provide individuals with what they need to complete tasks or achieve goals).

Your SLII^® participant materials include:

• LBA II^® Questionnaire (self-assessment tool)
• SLII Fitness Test (self-assessment Tool)
• SLII Resource and Activity Workbook
• Interactive Worksheets for Team Leaders
• Conversation Starters for Team Leaders
• SLII Challenge: 12 Mastery Modules
• The SLII Playbook: 9 Play Implementation Plan

Post-course, you will have access to a team member kit that is designed to help you share SLII with your team and/or key cross-functional co-workers. These downloadable tools include:

• Learn SLII Model Article
• Learn SLII Model PowerPoint
• SLII Mobile App (iPhone, iPad, Android, or Web)
• Interactive Worksheets for Team Members
• One-on-One Conversion Starters for Team Members

This course is part of the Technical Leadership Certificate. Course may be taken individually as well.

Registration Date/Time:
11/4/2025 7:30am Central Time

Event Dates/Times:

• 11/4/2025  8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
• 11/5/2025  8:00am - 3:00pm Central Time

This is an in-person course. Please be prepared to attend all days in-person. 

The link to access the online course materials will be provided a few days before the course. Please watch the email address that you provided during registration.

• Program Director

  Shalini Bhat

• Instructor

  Kimberly Kleiman-Lee

  Founder & CEO

  Kimberly Kleiman-Lee knows that humans are the most interesting part of work. Kimberly served General Electric for 20 years; with her final 7 years teaching and coaching at Crotonville (GE’s corporate university.) Her team led the company’s Culture and Leadership Learning & Development strategy and solutions for 330,000 employees. Her honest, intuitional, and methodical approach to individual and team development earned her the respect of leaders throughout GE. In addition to serving her team, her individual work focused GE’s top 5000 leaders - teaching, coaching, provoking, and inspiring change. She founded KKL & Co. in 2017 and her practice includes executive coaching, leadership workshops, and business strategy. Her services engage the ‘Whole Human’ often with humor, rarely with PowerPoint. Kimberly believes that the best way to learn about the world is to be out in it.

  Kimberly obtained her BA from the University of Wisconsin Madison and her Masters in Adult Education and Leadership Studies from Loyola University Chicago. She is a hopeful guitarist, triathlete, and a certified Black Belt (Six Sigma kind).

10% discount per person for participants registered in the Technical Leadership Certificate series. Promo code needed at time of registration.

If you are planning to attend an Interdisciplinary Professional Programs course, payment is required at the time of registration. Below are the payment options:

Pay by Credit Card

Enroll online and pay by credit card.

• Search for the course on the website and then click on the Enroll Now button from the course webpage.
• Enter all necessary course attendee information and payment information on the course enrollment page.
• You will receive an email to confirm successful enrollment and payment.

Enroll over the phone and pay by credit card.

• Call CERC Registrations at 608-262-2451.
• Provide the registrations representative with:
  • the course name, dates, and/or course number.
  • the necessary course attendee information and payment information.
• You will receive either a mailed document or an email to confirm successful enrollment payment.

Pay by Check

Mail in a completed registration form and check payable to UW Madison.

• Fill out a registration form (found either in the back of the course brochure you received in the mail or here).
• Prepare a check, made payable to UW Madison.
• Mail the registration form and check to: CERC Registrations 21 N Park St, Ste 7101 Madison, WI 53715
• You will receive either a mailed document or an email to confirm successful enrollment and payment.

Pay by Purchase Order

• Request Purchase Order information from interpro@union.wisc.edu
  • If a fee quote is needed, contact custserv@interpro.wisc.edu first
• You will receive an invoice from UW–Madison Business Services for payment, usually within 3–5 business days

Military

If using SF-182 form, please call our registration number at 608-262-2451 or email interpro@union.wisc.edu for details and instructions.

Event Cancellation

We reserve the right to cancel a course due to insufficient enrollment or unforeseen events. If we cancel a course, participants will be notified via email or phone and will be given the option for a full refund or to transfer their registration and any fees paid to another course. We are not responsible for non-refundable plane tickets, hotel reservations, and other travel related expenses. For enrollee Course Cancellation, refer to notes on course page.

If you cannot attend, please notify us by no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Because this course has limited enrollment, cancellation received after this date and no-shows are subject to the full course fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts. Once you have accessed the online course, exam and/or materials, no cancellations or refunds are permitted.