Adaptive Leadership Skills Training Courses -

Quick Enquiry Download Brochure Call Me Back

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

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

Purpose and Possibility
- The illusion of the broken system
- Distinguishing technical problems from adaptive challenges
- Distinguishing leadership from authority
  - Technical problems
  - Adaptive problems
- Living the disequilibrium, observing, interpreting, and intervening
- Experimenting and taking smart risks smartly
- Engaging above and below the neck and connecting to purpose
- Living life as a leadership laboratory
- Resisting the leap to action and discovering the joy of making hard choices

Diagnosing the System
- The elegance and tenacity of the status quo
- Diagnosing the system and discovering structural implications
- Determining the technical and adaptive elements
- Identifying the four adaptive challenge archetypes
  - Gap between espoused values and behavior
  - Competing commitments
  - Speaking the unspeakable
  - Work avoidance
- Recognizing the political landscape and uncovering values driving behavior
- Sharing responsibility for the organization’s future
- Valuing independent judgment and building leadership capacity
- Institutionalizing reflection and continuous learning

Mobilizing the System
- Reframing the group’s default interpretations
- Generating a diversity of interpretations
- Designing effective interventions
- Keeping work at the center of people’s attention
- Managing authority figures
- Protecting and engaging the voices of dissent
- Creating a holding environment
- Nurturing shared responsibility for the organization
- Developing leadership capacity
- Institutionalizing reflection and continuous learning

Meirc Professional Certificate (MPC)

MPC certified courses by Meirc Training and Consulting are designed for those willing to challenge themselves and go the extra distance. Participants who fully attend an MPC course and successfully complete the test on the last day, will receive a Meirc Professional Certificate (MPC), in addition to the one they receive for attendance. MPC certificates are regionally recognized and can be quite valuable when applying for more senior roles within the organization or outside.