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Adaptive Leadership Training Course
Managers and leaders at any level who need to keep performing while plans, priorities and teams keep changing.
Many of the problems leaders face today have no expert answer. Restructures, new technology and shifting priorities don't come with a manual. These are adaptive challenges, and they need a different kind of leadership.
This course draws on the leading research in adaptive leadership, including Heifetz's "balcony and dance floor" and the Cynefin framework. Delegates learn to step back and see the bigger picture, tell a technical problem from an adaptive one, and keep their team in the zone where change actually happens.
Delegates also complete the Lumina Spark personality tool before the course. They leave knowing how their own style helps and hinders them under pressure, with a practical plan for a real challenge they're facing now.
- CPD Points: 6
- Training Course Category: Management & Leadership
- Training Course Duration: 1 day
- Course Location: Virtual, online or classroom based
By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:
- Explain the difference between technical problems and adaptive challenges
- Use the balcony and dance floor to step back and read what is really happening
- Choose the right response to a situation using the Cynefin framework
- Recognise how their own leadership style shows up under pressure
- Manage the pressure of change so their team stays productive
- Manage competing priorities as polarities, not either/or choices
- Create the psychological safety their team needs to adapt
- Leading when there's no playbook
- Technical problems vs adaptive challenges
- Making sense of uncertainty: the Cynefin framework
- Your leadership style in uncertainty: Lumina Spark
- Getting on the balcony
- Turning the heat up and down: the productive zone
- Managing paradox and competing priorities
- Making it safe to adapt: psychological safety
- Personal action plan
