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Chapter 11

Adaptive Leadership

By Keanna Blodgett

Adaptive Leadership

Defined

Adaptive leadership is about how leaders encourage people to adapt - to face and deal with problems, challenges, and changes that followers might come across ​

Different aspects of adaptive leadership

Leader Behaviors

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Strengths

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Criticisms ​

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Four Biases

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Situational Challenges​

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Four Biases

problems are embedded in complicated systems

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complex and multifaceted

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requires relationships​

​​Systems

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people develop and evolve

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Allows people to grow and thrive in new circumstances​​

Biological

Leaders use their expertise or authority to serve people

​​Services Oriented

people need a supportive environment

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learn to distinguish between fantasy and reality

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resolve internal conflicts​​

​​Psychotherapeutic​

Poll

Which of these leaders would you follow?

​Situational Changes

​Problems clearly defined​

Solution solved by leadership​

Problems in workplace community or self

Leader solves problem

Followers trust and accept leaders decision and authority​

​​Technical

​Problem clearly defined

No clear solution

Both leader and follower share responsibility for solving problem

Leader is a resource and support

Follower does work and learns how to adapt​​

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Technical and Adaptive

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​No clear problem

Cant be solved by leader

Leader is encouraging

Requires people to change​​

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Adaptive

Fill in the Blank

Which one of the four biases includes learning how to distinguish between fantasy and reality?

six different behaviors

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Leader Behaviors

Multiple Choice

Which of the three situational changes has no clear problem and requires people to change?

• Adaptive

• Technical

• Technical and Adaptive

Strengths and Criticisms

Reaffirms that leadership is a process

Follower centered

A value to organizations who are going through change​

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​​Strengths

Can be uncomfortable if they encounter conflict

Too abstract with different behaviors

Based off ideas and assumptions not research​

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​​Criticisms​

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Draw

Where will you go to get away, reflect, and get a better picture of the situation?

“An adaptive leader challenges others to face difficult situations, providing them with the space or opportunity they need to learn new ways of dealing with the inevitable changes in beliefs, attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors that they are likely to encounter in addressing real problems.”

Open Ended

What is one take away from this presentation you are leaving with?