Art and Practice of Adaptive Leadership

• Challenge assumptions that may be inhibiting your or your organization’s adaptive capacity, and manage the inevitable stressors of leadership
• Analyze systemic and organizational dynamics and complexities
• Use effective intervention to implement sustainable change
• Promote open and honest conversations
• Develop strategies for active learning amid competing agendas and changing contexts
• Collaborate with others to mobilize collective wisdom

Identifying the Adaptive Work

• Exploring gaps between adaptive challenges and personal values, testing multiple perspectives, thinking critically about challenges

Engaging and Energizing Others

• Identifying shared values, creating collaborative processes, mobilizing engagement and generating innovation
• Negotiating with authority

Giving the Work Back

• Empowering others to take ownership, developing strategies for active learning
• Dealing with distractions and avoidance

Orchestrating Conflict

• Surfacing hidden conflict and directing it toward the adaptive work, depersonalizing conflicts

Regulating Disequilibrium and Effective Intervening

• Managing stress and the pace of learning, respecting diversity, focusing on collective purpose
• Remaining agile, exercising leadership experimentally and tactfully

Infusing Adaptive Work with Meaning

• Connecting adaptive work with specific tasks, shared values and individual purpose
• Practicing leadership from any position

Special features

Working in groups, you will analyze leadership challenges you are currently facing, and apply the Adaptive Leadership framework to design an action plan for progress. You will also practice peer consultation—a vital component of adaptive leadership development.