Adaptive Leadership | Jim Ladoux
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Adaptive Leadership
Be married to your mission and values
I don’t think the values should change but
everything else can
Change or die
Change or die
Change or die
People fear LOSS, not CHANGE
Intergenerational, Engaging Worship
Adaptive leadership is spiritual
work
Leadership is . . .
. . . The activity of mobilizing people to tackle tough challenges (problems) and do the adaptive work necessary to achieve progress and thrive.
Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky
Adaptive leadership is . . .
. . . About change that enables the capacity to thrive. New environments and new dreams demand new strategies and abilities, as well as the leadership to mobilize them.
Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky
Four traits of adaptive leadership
Preserve the essential
Discard the unnecessary
Expand capacities
Innovate via experience
Technical challenges . . .
Can be solved with existing knowledge
Are well-defined and easy to repeat
Do not require significant changes in
behavior
Do not require significant changes in
attitudes and assumptions
Adaptive challenges . . .
May be hard to define
Require new knowledge and
learning
Require new ways of thinking and
doing
Usually involves some
experimentation
You may be facing adaptive challenges
If the . . . • solution requires operating in a different way than
what’s currently done.• problem AND the solution require learning.• solution requires shifts in people’s authority and
responsibilities.• solution requires some sacrifice of past ways of
working or living.• solution requires experimenting before you’re sure of
the answer.• solution will take a long time and is connected to
people’s values.
What challenges are you facing?
The adaptive intervention process
1. Observing events and patterns around you and interpreting what you are observing and developing multiple hypotheses about what is really going on, and if the concern is broad-based or held by just a few.
2. Designing interventions based on observations and interpretations that identified adaptive challenges. This involves framing the adaptive challenge in ways that lead to constructive engagement.
3. Analyzing the factions that begin to emerge, seeking to understand their motivations and assumptions.
9 step adaptive leadership process
1. Discern
2. Identify
3. Interpret
4. Identify Interventions
5. Design interventions
6. Think hard about your framing
7. Hold Steady – stay the course
8. Analyze the factions
9. Focus on the work at hand
Hindrances to being adaptive
Failure to observe
Failure to interpret
Failure to intervene
Failure of will
Building an adaptive culture
Name the elephants
Share the responsibility
Develop leadership capacities
Learning and reflection are the
norms
Stay fresh . . . be curious
Pay attention to timing
Get a balcony view
Ask, “Who am I in this picture?”
Expand your set of adaptive tools
Separate the issues
Solve the right problem
Ask, What is God up to in this situation?