Adaptive Ledership

Overview

Good leaders can park their ego and accept that they don’t know what they don’t know. They recognise the responsibility to solve a problem is not theirs alone and leverage all available resources, especially their people, to help solve any problem they face. Good leaders also retain a strong and caring connection with their people and maintain open and effective channels of communication.

In addition to demonstrating good leadership, adaptive leaders recognise that no one problem is the same as another. They can identify the different types of problems they face and adapt their response accordingly. Adaptive leaders also encourage others to find and see opportunity from different perspectives. Rather than dismiss new thinking and ideas they are prepared to experiment and test new thinking. Adaptive leaders see 1% probability as 100% opportunity and are agile in their response. They accept that their thinking needs to be constantly challenged and change based on the emergence of any new variable or understanding.

Both leadership and adaptive leadership are practiced skills that are developed from experience. Having awareness of what to do won’t necessarily change the result without the ability, experience or understanding of how to do it. Other than experiential learning, partnering with someone who has experience is the fastest and most effective way to develop this type of capability.

Self-Leadership Workshop

In addition to adaptive leadership coaching and mentoring, we provide a virtual self-leadership 1-day workshop that focuses on developing the Emotional Intelligence (EI) of leaders to help them improve their leadership effectiveness. EI is a critical complementary skill of adaptive leaders. The workshop blends psychology, common sense, self-awareness and self-leadership. The workshop is designed to teach participants how to better respond to both personal and professional change and how to take control and responsibility for the changes they want to make. The workshop also teaches the difference between responsibility, response and reaction and their associated value, which is a key leadership skill required in these unprecedented times.