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Bertelsmann Stiftung Leadership Series: Ron Heifetz in Berlin
Authored by Christiane Montuori on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:47 PM | Add the first comment!
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Ronald Heifetz: Adaptive Leadership
Leading effectively requires recognizing and differentiating between adaptive and technical aspects of a situation. The diagnosis of the situation and consideration of your alternative actions provides you/leadership with the necessary bandwidth of action options and tailoring efforts accordingly.
According to Heifetz, the most common leadership mistake is treating adaptive challenges as if they were technical problems. While technical problems can be solved by an authority or expert, adaptive challenges have no known solution - the skills and answers are outside the common repertoire. Adaptive challenges are those which require mobilizing people’s hearts and minds to operate differently. Luckily, these skills can be learned regardless of position or function.
Since the bottleneck to growth for most organizations is the depth and breadth of leadership, leadership pathways often need to be created for those with and without formal authority. By separating the functions of leadership and authority, integrated competencies across an organization can be built more easily, which is critical to create new and sustained value.
Because adaptive change generates resistance and exercising leadership can be both difficult and dangerous, those who lead must be well prepared to work within a “productive zone of disequilibrium.”
During the one-day master class, Professor Heifetz will be sharing his latest insights about adaptive leadership. Following an introduction to the concept, participants will work proactively in the peer consultation method on their own challenges.
Case presenters will not only be given the opportunity to discuss their particular leadership challenge, but be given a significant registration reduction. For further information on a case presentation please see the website. http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-96A41337-0CCECC53/bst_engl/hs.xsl/100672_105376.htm
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