Adaptive Collaboration

• Senior leaders from private, public and nonprofit sectors who need to collaborate with key stakeholders in order to effect productive responses to change
• Past participants of The Art and Practice of Adaptive Leadership who wish to further develop their expertise in this area

• Develop collaborative structures and processes capable of responding effectively to specific issues
• Identify shared interests with stakeholders and produce win-win responses to address them
• Evaluate core challenges and open up options for tackling them
• Use cohort feedback and insights to improve the quality of your decisions
• Foster a collaborative culture and sustain communities of ongoing support
• Exploit the advantages of adaptive collaboration to lead organizations in rapidly changing contexts

You will explore innovative ways to form professional alliances, collaborate on organizational challenges and build strong and lasting solutions.

• Review of the adaptive leadership framework and its mechanisms for building collaboration
• Identifying adaptive work: gaps between adaptive challenges and personal values, thinking critically about challenges from multiple perspectives
• Leading without authority: empowering others to take ownership, overcoming barriers that hinder collaboration, developing strategies for effective collaboration
• Building strong relationships: engaging stakeholders to define problems and solutions, generating a sense of legitimacy and support, coming to solutions through principled negotiation
• Shaping organizational change: anticipating future challenges and opportunities, creating effective collaborative response strategies, mobilizing the full resources of your organization to tackle change

Note: participants in this program may qualify for up to $10,000 in funding through the Canada BC Job Grant program. Find out if you qualify.