Leading Through Adaptive Challenges
8.6
(5 ratings)
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Prepare yourself and your teams to thrive through disruption. Acquire an Adaptive Leader toolset and apply it to your conditions.
Leading Through Adaptive Challenges
8.6
(5 ratings)
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Prepare yourself and your teams to thrive through disruption. Acquire an Adaptive Leader toolset and apply it to your conditions.
Hosted by
Jim Dowling, Amber Román, and Rich Lynch
Field tested experts, authors and innovators developing leaders at all levels.
Course overview
Focus, align and activate the work of leaders
How prepared were you to lead your team through the Covid-19 disruption? Like many leaders, you were probably caught by surprise. A good deal of what you learned as leader was not helpful to you or your team. Even the best operators found that the skills that got them there were not enough to meet what we call adaptive challenges: how to win in a new domain, where the solution is not clear. And we all know there will be more disruptions.
We believe that a response to disruptions requires a mindset change to set aside old ways of working and envision life on the other side of the disruption; then work backwards to the capabilities required to realize your vision. This course navigates that process.
In this course, you will apply methods and tools to address adaptive challenges. You will have more than 7 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 adapt thinking and actions to address disruptions in the future.
Who is this course for
01
Leaders who want to grow professionally, simplify daily work, and prepare themselves and their teams for adaptive challenges
02
PMs, SMEs, and other untitled leaders who want to expand their agency and accelerate team productivity
03
Learning & Development and Organization Development Professionals who might want to bring this program in-house
What you’ll get out of this course
A way of expanding your agency as a leader
- Techniques and tools to help you manage-up and across the organization
- Develop collaborative relationships with other leaders
- Emerge from individual contributor to recognized member of the leadership team
Learn how to develop a response to any adaptive challenge
- Let go of old habits
- Reframe disruptions as opportunities
- Identify new solutions to novel challenges
A method to rapidly focus, align and activate teams
- Develop common language to create shared mindset
- Apply shared methods to accelerate decision-making and aligned action; even when working apart
- Frame “big questions” to manage up and move forward
A framework that connects the dots from Purpose and Vision to Processes and Results
- Explain to others how key premade decisions guide leaders’ actions
- Relate Projects and Processes to the Capabilities required by Vision
- Integrate key statements – Purpose, Values and Vision – into the daily work of leaders
Leading Through Adaptive Challenges
8.6
(5 ratings)
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Meet your lead faculty
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
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
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 syllabus
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Welcome and Orientation
- Meet your faculty and cohort members
- Get the most from this program
- Expand your leader agency
- Learn to identify and address adaptive challenges
- Learn about the Framework for Adaptive Leadership and how to benefit from it
- Prepare for an intersession project
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Adaptive Challenges need Adaptive Leaders
- Learn to put Purpose and Values to work for you
- Make Purpose and Values real with Vision
- Provide leaders with premade choices and decision principles to accelerate and align their choices
- Delegate negotiated Goals from the executive level to the front line
- Prepare for an intersession project
03
Optional Deep Dive
- Open Q&A with the faculty on the framework and how to use it
04
Adaptive Challenges need Adapted Capabilities
- Connect the dots from Purpose to Strategies
- Describe Capabilities to address your challenge
- Learn how Capabilities carry out Mission
- Learn to model your organization as a set of Capabilities
- Assess Capability performance to suggest a project agenda
- Manage alignment from Mission to Results
- Share and celebrate your efforts and learning
Course schedule
7-8 hours
Tuesday, September 5 - Module 1
1:00 - 2:30PM ET
Live Session: Welcome and Orientation
Wednesday through Friday, September 6 - 8
- Intersession work
Tuesday September 12 - Module 2
1:00 -3:00 PM ET
Live Session: Adaptive Challenges need Adaptive Leaders
Wednesday, September 13
- Intersession work
- Optional Live Deep Dive
Thursday, September 14 - Module 3
1:00 -3:00 PM ET
Live Session: Adaptive Challenges need Adapted Capabilities
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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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