Leading Through Adaptive Challenges
10 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Learn proactive measures that you can take to accelerate change when the next disruptive wave arrives.
Leading Through Adaptive Challenges
10 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Learn proactive measures that you can take to accelerate change when the next disruptive wave arrives.
Course overview
Flip the script of transformation leadership
In this course, you will learn the "what" "why" and "how" of meeting adaptive challenges.
By approaching challenges from an idealized future state and working backwards to the means to operate and adapt in that future state, you will experience and affect a leadership transformation from individual leaders working alone and together to a organizational leadership capability that acts as one.
You will have more than 6 hours of direct access to the faculty, plus the opportunity to engage members of the cohort and learn from them.
Following the course, you, your team and fellow leaders will be better prepared to apply Adaptive Leadership and Capability methods to your challenges, conditions and context
Who is this course for
01
Leaders at all levels who want to grow professionally and prepare themselves and their teams for adaptive challenges
02
Program and Project Managers as well as Subject Matter Experts, who want to expand their agency and accelerate team productivity
03
Internal and external leaders of Talent, Technology, Process, & Culture design, development, and adaptation
What you’ll get out of this course
A framework and practices that orchestrate strategy to results
- Integrate statements: Purpose, Values and Vision to define a future state.
- Explain to others how premade decisions guide leaders’ actions
- Relate Projects and Processes to the Capabilities required by the future state
A method to rapidly focus, align and activate teams
- Develop common language and shared mindset
- Apply shared methods to accelerate decision-making and aligned action; even when leaders and teams work apart
- Frame “big questions” to manage up and move forward
The ability to connect the dots for aligned actions
- Techniques and tools to help you manage up and across the organization for better alignment
- Insights to develop collaborative relationships with other leaders
- A way of expanding your agency as a leader
What’s included
Live sessions
Learn directly from your instructors in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
19 lessons • 2 projects
Week 1
Module 1: Adaptive organizations need adaptive leaders
Module 2: Connecting the dots for alignment
Week 2
Module 3: Becoming Adaptive Leaders
What students are saying
Meet your lead faculty
Jim Dowling
Jim Dowling
Co-founder, Capable Company
A business maker, learner, and coach with a keen interest in helping individuals, teams and organizations realize their performance aspirations. After leaving Engineering and Information Technology, Jim found his work/playground in a place where people, process, technology, and business can align to produce amazing results. Jim has led Teaming, Leadership Alignment, Leader Development, Organization Design, Business Transformation, Strategy Clarification programs for organizations in Europe, The Americas, and Asia.
Amber Román
Amber Román
Principal & Founder, Sensata-llc
Outcome-orientated pragmatic leader with a steady track record helping teams, leadership, and organizations grow, scale, and transform. Her 20+ years of expertise in Business Architecture, Information Technology, and Data Architecture, Business Analysis, Agile Project Management and Change Management gives Amber a well-rounded view of transformation.
She brings a culturally diverse perspective and insights to address individual leader needs and takes delight in making others shine.
Rich Lynch
Rich Lynch
Co-founder, Capable Company
Curiosity has led Rich into some exciting business innovations such as the balanced scorecard, capability-based planning, and new growth platforms. Along the way, he has collaborated with some great people from academia, consulting and client companies. He has authored three books: Measure Up! Corporate Renaissance, and The Capable Company. In the field, he has led numerous business transformation projects and has been running Strategy to Execution workshops for leaders at all levels.
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Leading Through Adaptive Challenges
Course schedule
7-8 hours
TBD
Tackle Adaptive Challenges
Adaptive leaders are the ones in demand. There are many leadership themes: People-Centered, Purpose-centered, Servant, Authentic, and more. They are all right but are they all equally helpful when waves of change are accelerating in speed and growing in amplitude?
Increase your ability to bring experts from many disciplines with those who will operate the organization in future states and quickly agree on a course of action to address operational challenges as one team, a coalition for seamless transformation.
What Heifetz & Laurie say...
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on interactive courseware, live workshops, and hands-on projects. Bring a challenge. Join in the dialogue and take back solutions
Adopt a common framework for meeting leader challenges
Learn to approach both technical (you've seen these before) and adaptive (unexpected and never seen before) challenges
Build an Adaptive Leadership learning community
Create a community of leaders who want to learn and grow together. Provide them with a framework for productive conversations that prepares and aligns them to respond as a leadership team to disruption
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