Leading Through Adaptive Challenges

4.3 (5)

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10 Days

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Cohort-based Course

Acquire a Framework for information that focuses, aligns and activates leaders at all levels.

Course overview

Transform your transformation methods to meet Adaptive Challenges

Response to disruptions requires a nimble mindset shift from operating to adapting and from fizzing to transforming. Individuals, teams, and entire organization must make the transformation together.


In this course, you will learn the "what" "why" and "how" of meeting adaptive challenges.


You will have more than 8 hours of direct access to the faculty, plus the opportunity to engage members of the cohort and learn from them.

 

Following the course, you and your team will be prepared to apply framework thinking to your conditions and context. to begin the transformation from technical / operational capable plus adaptive / transformational capable.

Who is this course for

01

PMs, SMEs, and other leaders who want to extend their agency and accelerate team productivity

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Professionals who are using & teaching the concepts & tools of Adaptive Leadership to accelerate progress on transformation challenges.

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HR Leaders who want to build organization leadership capability by incorporating Adaptive Leadership principles.

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

  • Start from an idealized future state
  • Develop and assess capabilities required to realize and adapt that future state
  • Explore the talent, process, technology, and culture aspects of capabilities

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

33 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

2 projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Apr 15—Apr 20

    Apr

    15

    Live Session 1: The Framework for Adaptive Organizations

    Tue 4/152:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 1: Adaptive Leaders, Leadership, and Organizations

    5 items

    Module 2: Explore the Framework

    5 items

    Apr

    17

    Live Session 2 - Deeper Dive into Elements

    Thu 4/172:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 3: Purpose, Values, and Vision

    4 items

    Module 4: Anchors & Mission

    2 items

    Module 5: Goals & Strategies

    5 items

    Wrap Up and Prep for Modules 6 & 7

    2 items

Week 2

Apr 21—Apr 24

    Apr

    22

    Live Event 3: Adaptive Challenges need Adapted Capabilities

    Tue 4/222:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 6: The Pathway to the Future State

    2 items

    Module 7:  Capability Modeling and Assessment

    4 items

    Wrap Up and Prep for Modules 8 & 9

    2 items

    Apr

    24

    Live Session 4: Realizing and Adapting Capabilities

    Thu 4/242:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 8: Projects Close Capability Gaps

    1 item

    Module 9: Processes Deliver Capability in the right way

    1 item

    Course Wrap Up and Sharing

    2 items

Post-course

4.3 (5 ratings)

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

Cohort 3

$500

Dates

Apr 15—24, 2025

Payment Deadline

Apr 14, 2025
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Course schedule

7-8 hours

  • Tuesday, Jan 14, 2025 - Live Session 1

    10:00AM - 12:00PM ET

    Introduction to the Framework for Adaptive Organizations


  • Thursday, Jan 16 Live Session 2

    10:00AM - 12:00PM ET

    Deeper Dive into Elements

  • Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025 -Live Session 3

    10:00AM - 12:00PM ET

    Adaptive Challenges need Adapted Capabilities

  • Thursday, Jan 23 - Live Session 4

    10:00AM - 12:00PM ET

    Setting a Project Agenda

Free resource

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.


Learn about adaptive versus technical challenges and why the path to meeting those challenges each has a more helpful approach.


Increase your agency as practitioner, instructor, or leader at any level.

What Heifetz & Laurie say

Learning is better with cohorts

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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Join an upcoming cohort

Leading Through Adaptive Challenges

Cohort 3

$500

Dates

Apr 15—24, 2025

Payment Deadline

Apr 14, 2025
Get reimbursed

$500

4.3 (5)

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10 Days