The course Adaptive Organisations - Leadership provides essential skills for leading successfully in agile and adaptive organisations. You will develop a solid understanding of modern leadership, from grasping what adaptive organisations require, through building high-performing teams, to developing yourself and others as leaders.
Thematically, the course is geared towards active managers and leaders who want to shift from traditional command-and-control approaches towards enabling adaptability and self-organisation, HR and Organisational Development professionals responsible for leadership development programmes as well as executives seeking to transform their organisations into more adaptive, responsive entities. Participants should have some leadership or management experience and familiarity with working in or with teams. A basic understanding of adaptive organisations is recommended, ideally acquired via an introductory course on agility or adaptability. Preparatory reading and pre-course exercises will be provided over our online learning platform. The course materials are in English.
To gain the Adaptive Organisations - Leadership certificate, participants will need to pass an online test after the course. All related details and information will be provided during the course.
Your Take-Aways
- a fresh perspective on leadership as an emergent, interaction-based phenomenon
- understanding the need for organisational adaptability and the potential benefits
- practical knowledge for building and sustaining high-performing teams
- core leadership skills for better communication, empowerment and self-management
- approaches for continuous leadership development for yourself and others
- the capability to create and nurture high-performing, self-managing teams
- be ready and well-prepared to take the Society for Adaptive Organisations certification exam
Course Organisation
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The course with a total contact time of 24 hours is delivered in presence or in interactive online mode. The course is split in various modules, none of which exceeds two hours, with short breaks as needed and sufficiently long breaks between the sessions. The actual times for breaks are agreed upon in the group at the beginning of the course.
Pre-course and post-course activities are part of the training and are presented via our interactive online learning platform in various formats (video, text, quizzes, worksheets, further reading, ...).
Agenda
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In alignment with the group’s level of knowledge and the participants’ engagement, the agenda is adapted. A typical course is structured as follows.
Day 1: Leadership and Adaptive Organisations
- Leadership as an emergent, interaction-based phenomenon
- Leadership definitions suitable for adaptive organisations
- The value of leadership and the problems it solves
- Why and how market dynamics have accelerated
- Consequences of faster market dynamics for organisations
- Working with principles rather than rules
- Identifying principles for adaptive organisations in existing systems
- Distinguishing between teams and work groups
- Prerequisites and importance of high-performing teams
- Understanding self-organisation, self-management and autonomy
- Establishing high-performing teams
- Core leadership skills: communication, feedback and feedforward
- Empowerment and self-management
- Methods to improve your leadership competence
Day 3: Creating Adaptive Organisations and Leadership Development
- Leadership as an organisational trait and everybody’s responsibility
- The role of leaders as promoters, catalysers and supporters of organisational evolution
- How successful change requires inspecting and adapting
- Working on the system versus working in the system
- Understanding the organisation as a system of communication
- Creating systems awareness
- Self-development and developing leadership skills in others
- Implementing a plan for leadership development
The agenda for the course meets the Society for Adaptive Organisations Learning Objectives.
Certification Process
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