1. Adaptive Leadership

2. “Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.” ― Ronald A. Heifetz

3. Adaptive leadership is given to impacting the environment
Adaptive leadership is given to impacting the environment. It addresses a very active form of leadership, not a passive effort taken merely to adjust to circumstances as found. Biology teaches that relationships between living entities are circular and interactive. Our organizations are also living systems, being composed not just of capital goods and technology, but of people. --Dr. Charles Albano

4. Situational Challenges Leader Behaviors Adaptive Work
Model of Adaptive Leadership
Situational Challenges
Technical Challenges
Technical and Adaptive Challenges
Adaptive Challenges
Leader Behaviors
1. Get on the Balcony
2. Identify the Adaptive Challenge
3. Regulate Distress
4. Maintain Disciplined Attention
5. Give the Work Back to the People
6. Protect Leadership Voices from Below
Adaptive Work
Holding Environment
Leader Followers
Interaction

5. Situational Challenges
Technical: problems that are defined with solution that can be corrected with rules or polices
Examples: new software issues that managers can identify and solve with assessing and training.
Situational
Challenges
Technical & Adaptive: Defined but the solutions aren’t as clear
Adaptive: Challenges that aren’t clear cut or easy to identify
These are solve through encouragement of others to define the challenge and solve it
This may include new rules or training

6. Step out of the Fray, finding solutions in challenging situations.
Leader Behaviors
Get on the Balcony
Identify Adaptive Challenges
Regulate Distress
Maintain Discipline Attention
Give Work Back to People
Protect leadership Voices from Below
Step out of the Fray, finding solutions in challenging situations.
Leaders should illicit and listen to the workers suggestions and allow them to seek solutions to the challenge.
Leaders should do what is necessary to mobilize workers to do the work they need to do.
Leaders have to provide direction, which is the desire or the workers.
Recognize the stresses of situations and help diffuse it.
Encourage followers to face the tough work they need to do. Steering them away from avoidance.

7. Adaptive Work is where adaptive leaders direct their work
Leaders Followers Adaptive leaders do not use the term follower as it implies a submissive role. Leaders instead interact with workers.
Holding Environment is where work is conducted

8. -Understand the complexities
Strengths:
-Process approach
-It is worker centered in involvement
-It helps workers deal with conflicting values such as changes in environment and social context
How it works:
-Understand the complexities
-In the of change leaders need to know if the change is causing challenges
Application:
Adaptive leaders can be used to understand change and the challenges created by it. It can direct leaders on how to defuse stress and solve technical challenges
Criticisms:
-Needs more research and refinement
-Too wide ranging and abstract
-Doesn’t incorporate a moral Dimension

9. Characteristics of Adaptive Leadership
The BCG study indicates the basics of effective teamwork include maintaining distributed leadership, an optimal talent mix, a clear charter and mutual trust. In addition, the highest-performing adaptive-leadership teams had the following five traits:
Boundary fluidity -- teams can move both horizontally and vertically, across roles, to connect with the next level of leadership
Freedom within a framework -- team leaders are empowered to take bold risks within agreed-upon parameters
Information processing -- the ability to synthesize complex insights and make high-quality decisions quickly
Sense and respond capability -- the systematic ability to filter and assimilate external information
One voice -- clarity and consistency of objectives
Characteristics of Adaptive Leadership
Grensing-Pophal, L. (2012, May 14)

11. References
Grensing-Pophal, L. (2012, May 14). The Value of Adaptive Leadership. Retrieved May 11, 2017, from
Northouse, P. (1993). Leadership Theory and Practice (7th ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.