Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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February Lab Work
Revisiting Adaptive Leadership “Big Ideas”
Knowing your passion is critical when leading
→ Requires leaders to “get on the balcony” and to know your own biases
→ Emphasis on adaptive challenges vs. solving technical problems
→ Leadership happens at all levels, regardless of position
→ Requires learning from stakeholders not authority
Work that engages the “gut” and addition to the “head”
Leaders understand and embrace the resistance that comes with LOSS
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Design Thinking
Stay
Here
Today!
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Framing February’s Lab Discussion
1. Reflect to practice “getting on the balcony”:
Reflect on your site visit(s): What did you observe?
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Framing February’s Lab Discussion
2. Go Deep to practice “empathizing” within the context of
adaptive leadership “big ideas”:
Who are stakeholders who are not in positions of authority to seek out?
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Where is this all leading?
April Presentation Guidelines
Provide specific examples of how the Team was able to “Get on the
Balcony” with the information brought forth through site visits and
other outreach methods practicing the “empathize” step of design
thinking.
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Where is this all leading?
April Presentation Guidelines - Continued
Develop an action plan to tackle one or more of the Adaptive
challenges. The plan should include a strategy(s) to deal “head on”
with the resistance that will come with loss. Identify all who stand to
loose in the change process. As leader, talk about how you will
confront, navigate or mitigate loss that any stakeholders may face.
Since Adaptive challenges are difficult because they require
people to change their ways, consider what might be: conserved,
discarded, or reinvented.
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Adaptive Leadership – How Success Looks
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What Adaptive Leadership is good for
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Adaptive vs. technical challenges
“A technical challenge is a problem that we readily recognize how
to solve—the work is ensuring effective execution. We know what
questions to ask, and we have tools and solutions to address the
issue.”
Source: From Greenwich Leadership Partners’ whitepaper “From Financial Sustainability to ‘Thriveability’: Why We Need to Change
the Conversation, referencing Rob Heifetz in The Practice of Adaptive Leadership. Greenwich Leadership Partners: Old Greenwich, June
28, 2017.
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Why adaptive challenges are difficult
Adaptive challenges are difficult because their solutions require people
to change their ways.
inventing new ways that build from the best of the past
Source: Heifetz, Ronald, Alexander Grashow, Marty Linsky. The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, p. 69
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LD Labs: Team Presentation “Bonus”
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Adaptive Organizations
5 Characteristics
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The Zone of Productive Disequilibrium
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Adaptive Leadership
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