Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics

Why Attend

The overall aim of this course is to provide participants with the competencies required to make their organizations thrive in a changing world. Participants on this interactive course will have the opportunity to strengthen their practice of adaptive leadership no matter what role they play in their organizations. Also, this course presents tools and tactics to help participants lead and mobilize people and tackle tough problems while reaching high.

Course Methodology

This course features the use of interactive exercises in order to allow participants to develop strategies that will help them improve their competencies in adaptive leadership. The course also relies on the analysis of case studies and real-life examples from the business world.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish technical problems from adaptive challenges and learn how to observe, interpret and intervene
• Discover the implications of the status quo on their organizations and diagnose the system
• Create an adaptive culture by mobilizing the system
• Devise a plan to identify their roles, prioritize and articulate their purposes in an adaptive challenge
• Apply tactics that will allow them to identify the emotional elements needed to lead an adaptive change

Target Audience

Managers, business professionals, and individuals who have decided to master the tools and tactics of adaptive leadership in a world where change has become the only constant.

Target Competencies

• Adaptive leadership
• Envisioning and initiating
• Influencing and motivating
• Decision-making
• Strategic thinking
• Leveraging diversity
• Capacity-building
• Emotional understanding