Adaptive Leadership

The overall aim of this course is to provide participants with the competencies required to make their organizations thrive in a changing world. Participants on this interactive course will have the opportunity to strengthen their practice of adaptive leadership no matter what role they play in their organizations. This course also presents tools and tactics to help participants lead and mobilize people and to tackle tough problems while reaching high.

Target Audience

Managers, business professionals, and individuals who have decided to master the tools and tactics of adaptive leadership in a world where change has become the only constant.

Duration:  2days

1. Purpose and Possibility

   • The illusion of the broken system
   • Distinguishing technical problems from adaptive challenges
   • Distinguishing leadership from authority
   • Living the disequilibrium, observing, interpreting, and intervening

2. Deploying Yourself

   • Staying connected to your purposes
   • Integrating your ambitions and purposes
   • Engaging courageously
   • Inspiring people
   • Being with your audience

3. Diagnosing the System

   • The elegance and tenacity of the status quo
   • Diagnosing the system and discovering structural implications
   • Determining the technical and adaptive elements
   • Identifying the four adaptive challenge archetypes

4. Seeing Yourself  as a System

   • Identifying your loyalties
   • Knowing your tuning
   • Broadening your bandwidth
   • Understanding you roles
   • Identifying your scope of authority
   • Articulating and prioritizing your purposes
   • The story you tell yourself

5. Mobilizing the System

   • Reframing the group’s default interpretations
   • Generating a diversity of interpretations
   • Designing effective interventions
   • Keeping work at the center of people’s attention
   • Managing authority figures

VALUE PROPOSITION

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish technical problems from adaptive challenges and learn how to observe, interpret and intervene
• Diagnose systems in place and discover the implications of the status quo on their organizations
• Mobilize the system and build an adaptive culture
• Devise a plan to identify their roles, prioritize and articulate their purposes in an adaptive challenge
• Apply tactics that will allow them to identify the emotional elements needed to lead an adaptive change