The below table summarizes the 4 core skills adaptive leaders excel at, along with the traps that can inhibit our response.
Skill
Trap
Spot the need for change
Operating from outdated assumptions
Master our response
Being hijacked by emotions
Empower to solve
Overly directive leadership
Mobilise co-ordinated action
Underinvestment in buy-in & alignment
Building their organisation’s ability to deal with disruptive change has become the number one challenge our clients are looking for help with. They see how rapidly the world is changing, and they’re worried their organisation will struggle to adapt fast enough. Our aim with this paper is to help you become a better adaptive leader and build this capacity in the leaders around you. By bringing these skills and traps to life, we will help you to assess your current effectiveness, identify the skills you need to work on, and equip you with some practical tips that will help you to become more effective right away.
Before we go further, we just wanted to mention that if you’d rather listen, watch, or talk about Adaptive Leadership, we have…
…other ways to engage
Podcasts : You can find a mini-series of interviews with John Bull about Adaptive Leadership on. the podcasts page of our website Videos : You can watch John being interviewed by Hugh Reynolds on our Youtube channel. Learning Events : Our series of online interactive workshops regularly cover themes in and around Adaptive Leadership.
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Adaptive Leadership : Building your capacity to thrive in a disruptive environment
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