Adaptive Leadership Skills
This course is designed to equip participants with the essential skills needed to help their organizations thrive in an ever-changing world.
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- Duration
- 3 days
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Course overview
This course is designed to equip participants with the essential skills needed to help their organizations thrive in an ever-changing world. Through interactive sessions, participants will have the chance to enhance their adaptive leadership abilities, regardless of their role within the organization. The course offers practical tools and strategies for leading and mobilizing people, addressing complex challenges, and achieving exceptional results.
Training methodology
The course incorporates interactive exercises that allow participants to develop strategies for enhancing their adaptive leadership skills. It also includes analysis of case studies and real-world examples from the business world.
Target competencies
- Adaptive leadership
- Visionary thinking
- Influence and motivation
- Decision-making
- Strategic thinking
- Leveraging diversity
- Capacity-building
- Emotional intelligence
Course objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between technical problems and adaptive challenges, and learn how to observe, interpret, and intervene effectively.
- Understand the impact of the status quo on their organizations and diagnose systemic issues.
- Foster an adaptive culture by engaging the entire system.
- Develop a plan to identify their roles, prioritize tasks, and articulate goals in the face of adaptive challenges.
- Apply strategies to recognize and manage the emotional aspects of leading adaptive change.
Course outline
- Understanding the illusion of a broken system
- Differentiating between technical problems and adaptive challenges
- Clarifying the distinction between leadership and authority
- Navigating disequilibrium by observing, interpreting, and intervening
- Taking calculated risks and experimenting smartly
- Engaging holistically by connecting to purpose
- Viewing life as a leadership laboratory
- Embracing the challenge of making difficult choices
- Analyzing the persistence of the status quo
- Diagnosing the system and understanding structural implications
- Identifying technical and adaptive elements
- Recognizing the four archetypes of adaptive challenges
- Navigating the political landscape and understanding underlying values
- Sharing responsibility for the organization's future
- Encouraging independent judgment and building leadership capacity
- Institutionalizing reflection and continuous learning
- Reframing default interpretations within the group
- Encouraging diverse perspectives and interpretations
- Designing and implementing effective interventions
- Keeping the focus on critical work
- Managing relationships with authority figures
- Protecting and engaging dissenting voices
- Creating a supportive environment
- Promoting shared responsibility for organizational success
- Developing leadership capacity within the organization
- Institutionalizing a culture of reflection and learning
- Identifying personal loyalties and commitments
- Understanding personal biases and perspectives
- Expanding your capacity for leadership
- Clarifying roles and responsibilities
- Defining your scope of authority
- Articulating and prioritizing your objectives
- Reflecting on the narrative you create for yourself
- Staying aligned with your purposes
- Balancing personal ambitions with organizational goals
- Engaging with courage and authenticity
- Inspiring and connecting with your audience
- Communicating from the heart
- Experimenting and learning from outcomes
- Building and maintaining a strong support network
- Creating a personal support system
- Continuously renewing and sustaining yourself as a leader
Morning and evening classes are available. CompuBase Training Center, Abu Dhabi.
