OVERVIEW
Leading any form of change initiative is complex. You need to work across organizational boundaries, build partnerships, deal with conflict, and overcome differences in values, visions and desired outcomes. Plus, you need to have a thick skin!
Drawing on 35+ years of experience at Harvard and sharp-end experience in the field, the program builds your professional and personal capacity to lead in complex, political, ambiguous environments; manage the personal risks and pressures of leadership; build vibrant alliances for cross-border collaboration; and design strategies for generating change.
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Build capacity for leveraging authority and power within and across diverse groups.
- Heighten awareness to the intricate dynamics of human systems.
- Deepen insight into issues of trust, political sensitivities, resistance and tolerance for change, conflict, and distress.
- Strengthen ability to lead adaptively in multi-stakeholder environments and change initiatives.
- Create a confidential space for reflection, exploration, and advice on personal risk-taking and learning.
- Understand the root cause of a stubborn and recurring challenge in your organization, team, or community.
- Partner with those who are in position of authority or power.
- Leverage your own power for change.
- Design an experiment that strengthens your ability to create lasting change.
- Learn to lead adaptively in environments with trust issues, political sensitivities, resistance, conflict, and distress.
- Typically spans 2 days (9am to 5pm).
- Nonetheless, we can customize both the program’s duration and schedule to cater to unique client requirements (e.g., compact 1-day workshops or extended sessions beyond 3 days).
- Senior Executives
- Mid to Senior-level Managers
- Team Leaders
- Project Managers
- High-Potential Employees
PROGRAM OUTLINE
Introduction to Adaptive Leadership
The practice of leadership involves two core processes: Diagnosis and Action. This session introduces the two-by-two matrix core to the framework and introduces the nature of adaptation.
Distinction Between Technical and Adaptive
The ability to recognize and apply the right skills to an Adaptive Challenge is critical to high performance. Applying the wrong responses to a new problem is a waste of time and resources. This session allows participants to identify the difference between Technical Problems and Adaptive Challenges.
Distinguishing between Leadership and Authority
Which different skills, behaviours and practices are used in positions of authority? Through small group work, participants learn different resources and strategies that can be employed when you exercise leadership or authority.
Getting on the Balcony
Systems thinking is a critical skill for practicing leadership. In this session, participants will learn the importance of being involved in the daily action and rising above to see the broader patterns and surrounding dynamics. Learning to see the structural, political, and social systems will create new possibilities, strategies and choices for participants as they move forward.
Diagnosing Your Leadership Challenge
The peer consulting case methodology has been tested and applied worldwide for 35+ years. It is specifically designed to increase the likelihood of sustainable, systemic change. Participants move ideas from concepts to internalized tools by 1) applying them directly to their own business challenges and 2) building cohorts that problem solve using each other as resources.
Personalizing the Adaptive Challenge
This activity, done in pairs and in the large group, helps participants identify barriers to change and helps illuminate potential ways to move forward
PROGRAM METHODOLOGY
- Hands-on Activities: Practical exercises to reinforce theoretical concepts.
- Group Discussions: Opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and exchange of ideas.
- Role Plays: Simulations of realistic situations to build practical skills.
- Feedback Sessions: Reviews and reflections to encourage improvement.
- Problem-solving Exercises: Develop critical thinking and decision-making skills.
- Experiential Learning: Learning by doing, promoting active involvement.
- Interactive Lectures: Engaging presentations by experts in the field.
- Case Studies: Real-world scenarios for learners to apply their knowledge.
- Quizzes & Tests: Regular assessments to track learning progress.
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