Millennium Fellowship Adaptive Leadership Program - Session 8 Leadership Strategies - Konu

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Millennium Fellowship Adaptive Leadership Program - Session 8 Leadership Strategies - Konu
Millennium Fellowship
Adaptive Leadership Program
Session 8
Leadership Strategies
February 10, 2021
Millennium Fellowship Adaptive Leadership Program - Session 8 Leadership Strategies - Konu
Getting Ready
• Video on and Sound mute?
• Re-Name yourself (First
  Name, Last Name, Pronouns)
• Answer in the chat:
  What is your (internal)
  weather today?
Millennium Fellowship Adaptive Leadership Program - Session 8 Leadership Strategies - Konu
Our Learning Journey
Sept 2, 2020     The Hard Truth: Withstanding the Pressure for Quick Fixes and Easy Answers
                 Distinction between technical problems and adaptive challenges

Sept 17, 2020    Real Leadership: Leading With and Beyond Your Authority
                 Difference between leadership and authority, formal and informal authority

Sept 30, 2020    Charting a Course: Systems Thinking and Political Strategy
                 Mapping stakeholders, factions, perspectives, and losses

Oct 14, 2020     Peer Consulting Case Methodology
                 A process to develop new insights and action options for your leadership challenge.

Nov 4, 2020      Peer Consulting Case I

Nov 18, 2020     Peer Consulting Case II

Dec 2, 2020      Peer Consulting Case III

Feb 8, 2021      Leadership Interventions and Strategies
                 Exploring additional strategies to making progress on adaptive challenges

Feb 22, 2021 &   Immunity to Change Pts 1 & 2
Mar 17, 2021     The real reason why people don’t change

Apr 5, 2021      How to Stay Alive in a Complex and Crazy World: Anchors, Partnership and Alliances
                 Cultivating anchors – including confidantes, allies, practices, and places
Millennium Fellowship Adaptive Leadership Program - Session 8 Leadership Strategies - Konu
Our Learning Journey
Sept 2, 2020     The Hard Truth: Withstanding the Pressure for Quick Fixes and Easy Answers
                 Distinction between technical problems and adaptive challenges

Sept 17, 2020    Real Leadership: Leading With and Beyond Your Authority
                 Difference between leadership and authority, formal and informal authority

Sept 30, 2020    Charting a Course: Systems Thinking and Political Strategy
                 Mapping stakeholders, factions, perspectives, and losses

Oct 14, 2020     Peer Consulting Case Methodology
                 A process to develop new insights and action options for your leadership challenge.

Nov 4, 2020      Peer Consulting Case I

Nov 18, 2020     Peer Consulting Case II

Dec 2, 2020      Peer Consulting Case III

Feb 8, 2021      Leadership Interventions and Strategies
                 Exploring additional strategies to making progress on adaptive challenges        today
Feb 22, 2021 &   Immunity to Change Pts 1 & 2
Mar 17, 2021     The real reason why people don’t change

Apr 5, 2021      How to Stay Alive in a Complex and Crazy World: Anchors, Partnership and Alliances
                 Cultivating anchors – including confidantes, allies, practices, and places
Agenda
• Welcome

• Check-in

• Exploring Heat and
  Disequilibrium
• Leadership Strategies
• Close
• Be present
  Our   • Share from the head and the heart
        • Keep what is shared in confidence
Norms     (forever!)
        • Listen deeply & be curious
Individual and   • What are you learning about your challenge?
  Small Group    • About leadership?
    Reflection
                 • About yourself?
Leadership is not a role, it‘s an activity

                                  Leadership = Mobilizing
                                  people to make progress on
                                  complex collective challenges

                                  • Facing harsh realities
                                  • Managing loss
                                  • Developing new capacities
Adaptive vs. Technical Challenges
Type of
challenge    Problem                 Solution                Locus of responsibility       Obstacles

             ▪ Known, easy to        ▪ Known solution        ▪   Experts                   ▪   Resources (time,
               identify, often         based on experience   ▪   Authorities                   money, …)
               recognizable based      and expertise
Technical      on experience
challenges

             ▪ (Un)known, hard to    ▪ Unknown – requires ▪ Those affected             ▪   Hearts and minds,
               identify – requires     learning!                 by the challenge/         values, loyalties,
               learning!                                         stakeholders, incl.       relationships
Adaptive                                                         authorities           → losses
challenge
                                      → Importance of
                                      making progress
                                      towards a solution!
Adaptation Occurs in Disequilibrium

Disequilibrium = Tension created by the gap between aspiration and
perceived reality
Disequilibrium
                   Adaptation Occurs in Disequilibrium

                   Threshold of Learning

                                           Time

Disequilibrium = Tension created by the gap between aspiration and perceived reality
People
 Resist
Change
People
 Resist
Change
People
   Resist
Change LOSS
Disequilibrium
                   Adaptation Occurs in Disequilibrium

                   Limit of Tolerance

                   Threshold of Learning

                                           Time

Disequilibrium = Tension created by the gap between aspiration and perceived reality
Adaptation Occurs in Disequilibrium
                                                                                       Danger Zone
                                                                                       Area of stress
                                                                                       & overwhelm
  Disequilibrium

                   Limit of Tolerance

                   Threshold of Learning

                                           Time

Disequilibrium = Tension created by the gap between aspiration and perceived reality
Adaptation Occurs in Disequilibrium
                                                                                       Danger Zone
                                                                                       Area of stress
                                                                                       & overwhelm
  Disequilibrium

                   Limit of Tolerance

                   Threshold of Learning
                                                                                       Comfort Zone
                                                                                       Area of no learning

                                           Time

Disequilibrium = Tension created by the gap between aspiration and perceived reality
Adaptation Occurs in Disequilibrium
                                                                                       Danger Zone
                                                                                       Area of stress
                                                                                       & overwhelm
  Disequilibrium

                   Limit of Tolerance

                   Threshold of Learning
                                                       • Displace Responsibility       Comfort Zone
                                                       • Divert Attention              Area of no learning
                                                                                       and resistance

                                           Time

Disequilibrium = Tension created by the gap between aspiration and perceived reality
Adaptation Occurs in Disequilibrium
                                                                                       Danger Zone
                                                                                       Area of stress
                                                                                       & overwhelm
  Disequilibrium

                   Limit of Tolerance

                                                                                       Learning Zone
                                                                                       Productive zone
                                                                                       of learning

                   Threshold of Learning
                                                                                       Comfort Zone
                                                                                       Area of no learning
                                                                                       and resistance

                                           Time

Disequilibrium = Tension created by the gap between aspiration and perceived reality
Leadership Strategy: Orchestrate Conflict by
Regulating the Heat
Disequilibrium
                                         Regulating the Heat

                 Limit of Tolerance
                 Learning Zone

                 Threshold of Learning

                                          Time
Disequilibrium
                                         Regulating the Heat

                 Limit of Tolerance
                 Learning Zone

                 Threshold of Learning                Raise the Heat: Challenge!
                                                      • Give work back to people
                                                      • Orchestrate conflict
                                                      • Innovate
                                                      • Focus attention
                                          Time        • Ask a question
                                                      • Ripen the work
Regulating the Heat
                                                      Lower the heat: Support!
                                                      • Give clear direction
                                                      • Reassure / protect
                                                      • Focus on what's not changing
Disequilibrium

                 Limit of Tolerance                   • Pacing
                 Learning Zone                        • Frame things with hope
                                                      • Cross a boundary
                                                      • Build trust
                 Threshold of Learning                Raise the Heat: Challenge!
                                                      • Give work back to people
                                                      • Orchestrate conflict
                                                      • Innovate
                                                      • Focus attention
                                          Time        • Ask a question
                                                      • Ripen the work
Challenge + Support = Growth
                                                 Lower the heat: Support!
                                                 • Give clear direction
                                                 • Reassure / protect
                                                 • Focus on what's not changing
Disequilibrium

                 Limit of Tolerance              • Pacing
                 Learning Zone                   • Frame things with hope
                                                 • Cross a boundary
                                                 • Build trust
                 Threshold of Learning           Raise the Heat: Challenge!
                                                 • Give work back to people
                                                 • Orchestrate conflict
                                                 • Innovate
                                                 • Focus attention
                                        Time     • Ask a question
                      Pace the work over time!   • Ripen the work
Journal
  (5 minutes)

• What is the heat level in your
  challenge? What is the level
  of heat for you? For whom is
  it the highest? Lowest?
• Where do you need to raise
  it? Where do you need to
  lower it?
• What moves could you
  experiment with to
  orchestrate learning?
Debrief in pairs
  (10 minutes)

• What is the heat level in your
  challenge? What is the level
  of heat for you? For whom is
  it the highest? Lowest?
• Where do you need to raise
  it? Where do you need to
  lower it?
• What moves could you
  experiment with to
  orchestrate learning?
Leadership Strategy: Get on the Balcony
Collective   Individual

            Big-
Balcony     picture

Practices   In-the-
            moment
Balcony                            Collective   Individual
Practices                Big-
                         picture
What balcony practices
do you already have?     In-the-
                         moment

What practices might
you experiment with?
Our Learning Journey
Sept 2, 2020     The Hard Truth: Withstanding the Pressure for Quick Fixes and Easy Answers
                 Distinction between technical problems and adaptive challenges

Sept 17, 2020    Real Leadership: Leading With and Beyond Your Authority
                 Difference between leadership and authority, formal and informal authority

Sept 30, 2020    Charting a Course: Systems Thinking and Political Strategy
                 Mapping stakeholders, factions, perspectives, and losses

Oct 14, 2020     Peer Consulting Case Methodology
                 A process to develop new insights and action options for your leadership challenge.

Nov 4, 2020      Peer Consulting Case I

Nov 18, 2020     Peer Consulting Case II

Dec 2, 2020      Peer Consulting Case III

Feb 8, 2021      Leadership Interventions and Strategies
                 Exploring additional strategies to making progress on adaptive challenges        today
Feb 22, 2021 &   Immunity to Change Pts 1 & 2
Mar 17, 2021     The real reason why people don’t change

Apr 5, 2021      How to Stay Alive in a Complex and Crazy World: Anchors, Partnership and Alliances
                 Cultivating anchors – including confidantes, allies, practices, and places
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