Course Methodology
This course features the use of interactive exercises in order to allow
participants to develop strategies that will help them improve their
competencies in adaptive leadership. The course also relies on the analysis of
case studies and real-life examples from the business world.
Course Objectives
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
- Discover the implications of the status quo on
their organizations and diagnose the system
- Create an adaptive culture by mobilizing the
system
- 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
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.
Target Competencies
- Adaptive leadership
- Envisioning and initiating
- Influencing and motivating
- Decision-making
- Strategic thinking
- Leveraging diversity
- Capacity-building
- Emotional understanding
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
- Experimenting and taking smart risks smartly
- Engaging above and below the neck and connecting
to purpose
- Living life as a leadership laboratory
- Resisting the leap to action and discovering the
joy of making hard choices
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
- Recognizing the political landscape and uncovering
values that drive behavior
- Sharing responsibility for the organization's
future
- Valuing independent judgment and building
leadership capacity
- Institutionalizing reflection and continuous
learning
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
- Protecting and engaging the voices of dissent
- Creating a holding environment
- Nurturing shared responsibility for the
organization
- Developing leadership capacity
- Institutionalizing reflection and continuous
learning
Seeing yourself as a system
- Identifying your loyalties
- Knowing your tuning
- Broadening your bandwidth
- Understanding your roles
- Identifying your scope of authority
- Articulating and prioritizing your purposes
- The story you tell yourself
Deploying yourself
- Staying connected to your purposes
- Integrating your ambitions and purposes
- Engaging courageously
- Inspiring people
- Being with your audience
- Speaking from the heart
- Running experiments
- Growing your personal support network
- Creating a personal holding environment
- Renewing yourself
