Adaptive Leadership
In today’s fast-moving environment, many teams prioritise stability over adaptability—leading to delayed decisions, resistance to change, and missed opportunities. Without the ability to sense and respond in real time, teams often become overly dependent on leadership, struggle with uncertainty, and are exposed to disruption. Building adaptive teams is critical for organisations that need to innovate, stay aligned under pressure, and perform reliably in unpredictable conditions.
This program supports teams to navigate uncertainty, respond to change, and sustain high performance over time. Using a blend of facilitated workshops, behavioural insight, and real-time problem solving, teams develop the mindsets and practices needed to remain cohesive under pressure and agile in complexity. The program builds trust, improves decision-making, and strengthens autonomy and accountability. It’s ideal for organisations undergoing change, leading cross-functional initiatives, or aiming to future-proof their team performance.
Sample Syllabus
Understanding Adaptive Challenges - Distinguishing technical problems from adaptive challenges—and learning when expertise alone won’t suffice.
Disruption, Uncertainty and Organisational Resilience - Equipping leaders to remain grounded and effective amidst volatility and shifting conditions.
Mobilising Systems for Change - Learning to engage multiple stakeholders, surface resistance, and align diverse perspectives around shared purpose.
Working with Resistance and Loss - Understanding the emotional and political dynamics of change, including how to hold space for discomfort and ambiguity.
Authority, Leadership and Informal Influence - exploring how adaptive leadership often emerges outside formal authority, and how to lead from any position in the system.
Tuning the Temperature - Developing skill in pacing change—knowing when to provoke, when to hold, and how to avoid system overwhelm or inertia.
Observation, Interpretation, Intervention - Practising the core cycle of adaptive leadership to make sense of patterns and act with intention.
Engaging Multiple Loyalties and Hidden Commitments - Identifying unconscious attachments and competing commitments that block progress—personally and organisationally.
Creating Adaptive Capacity in Others - Shifting from problem-solving to enabling others to learn, stretch and take responsibility.
Sustaining Momentum and Learning in Real Time - Building structures and habits to reflect, recalibrate, and embed adaptive thinking into the organisation’s culture.
