Training Information
Polykala’s Adaptive Leadership Development is designed to challenge the notion of leadership, generate insight and offer tools to catalyse change. It is delivered with an emphasis on experiential learning modes. You won’t be asked to sit through hours of theory and there won’t be a single powerpoint. Instead you’ll be on your feet, learning in real-time through creative and reflective activities, as you gain tools and awareness to tackle tough challenges, navigate complexity and thrive in uncertainty.
Fundamental to the training is the view that a person’s leadership effectiveness is tied directly to their reflective skill. A sequence of structured exercises are presented to elicit predictable ‘automatic’ behaviours so that participants can observe themselves and explore alternative ways of responding that might enhance their leadership capacity.
We explore four key ideas/actions from the adaptive leadership framework and apply them to your context:
- Distinguishing leadership and authority
- Diagnosing technical, ‘adjustive’ and adaptive challenges/opportunities
- Unpacking the emotional and social qualities of systemic adaptation: ‘what do we keep, let go and, grow?’
- Learn and apply the peer-consultation method to gain practical insights on your adaptive leadership challenges.
Key Components
- 1. Learn the core Adaptive Leadership framework.
- 2. Apply the framework to the change dynamics at play in your context.
- 3. Distinguish between technical and adaptive challenges.
- 3. Practise the Harvard case-consultation method to make progress on present challenges.
Topics Covered
Leadership & authority
Technical & adaptive challenges
Harvard case consultation methodology
Cultural adaptation – determining what to keep, let go and grow
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Articles
Case Study – University of Newcastle’s Ma & Morley Scholarship Program
In 2019 and 2020, Polykala travelled to Newcastle to deliver two intensives on Adaptive Leadership and Facilitation to the scholars of the University of Newcastle’s Ma & Morley Scholarship program.
“We aren’t change averse, we are loss averse”
Change often means one of two things: loss and/or growth. Too often, we give all the airtime to the ‘growth’ and opportunity surrounding a change agenda.
Case Study – Australian Rural Leadership Foundation
In March and June 2018, Polykala helped deliver the inaugural ‘For Our Future’ Forestry Industry Leadership Program for folks in the Forestry industry in Australia.
Course Information
Adaptive Leadership Development training
Book a session for your workplace or organisation- Workshop length: Full day to Multi day
- 2 Harvard-trained facilitators
- 10-25 participants
- Participant evaluation