Course Outlines:
Module One:
Purpose and possibility
- The illusion of the broken system
- Distinguishing technical problems from adaptive challenges
- Distinguishing leadership from authority
- Living the disequilibrium, observing, interpreting, and intervening
- Experimenting and taking smart risks smartly
- Engaging above and below the neck and connecting to purpose
- Living life as a leadership laboratory
- Resisting the leap to action and discovering the joy of making hard choices
Module Two:
Diagnosing the system
- The elegance and tenacity of the status quo
- Diagnosing the system and discovering structural implications
- Determining the technical and adaptive elements
- Identifying the four adaptive challenge archetypes
- Recognizing the political landscape and uncovering values that drive behaviour
- Sharing responsibility for the organization’s future
- Valuing independent judgment and building leadership capacity
- Institutionalizing reflection and continuous learning
Module Three:
Mobilizing the system
- Reframing the group’s default interpretations
- Generating a diversity of interpretations
- Designing effective interventions
- Keeping work at the center of people’s attention
- Managing authority figures
- Protecting and engaging the voices of dissent
- Creating a holding environment
- Nurturing shared responsibility for the organization
- Developing leadership capacity
- Institutionalizing reflection and continuous learning
Module Four:
Seeing yourself as a system
- Identifying your loyalties
- Knowing your tuning
- Broadening your bandwidth
- Understanding your roles
- Identifying your scope of authority
- Articulating and prioritizing your purposes
- The story you tell yourself
Module Five:
Deploying yourself
- Staying connected to your purposes
- Integrating your ambitions and purposes
- Engaging courageously
- Inspiring people
- Being with your audience
- Speaking from the heart
- Running experiments
- Growing your personal support network
- Creating a personal holding environment
- Renewing yourself