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ADAPTIVE AND CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP

Leadership is changing – towards enabling and coaching rather than commanding and controlling to create and lead organisations which constantly adjust to threats, capitalize on (and flourish in) disruption, and respond creatively rather than habitually or blindly.

Most organisations remain over-weight with bureaucracy and controls, designed in the era of slow change and certainties, based on knowing and expertise.  Huge functional infrastructures police and maintain these rule-based systems, creating massive central costs and protecting the organisation from long-gone threats, while sleep-walking the organisation into bigger, newer dangers – sluggishness, lack of real discipline and purposeful choice-making, and stifling accountable creativity.

But lifting an organisation up into a purpose-led, nimble and generative version of itself takes a deep shift of mindset and a new relationship with risk (not a lesser relationship – but a more alert consciousness).

Many of the risks that the expensive ‘rituals’ apparently ‘manage’ are actually social and ego risks, for example, the anxiety of not having all the answers at a meeting, or trying something out before being able to predict outcomes with precise perfection.  And these rituals mask the true existential risks to the company, of not innovating or transforming fast enough, or having the right collaboration to bust siloes to sustainably reduce costs and increase performance.

What are the key leadership capabilities?

Awakeness

  • Alive to the moment and connected to a compelling, higher purpose and the broader 'system'.
  • Alert to weak signals and emerging patterns, with curiosity towards unusual sources and voices.
  • Aware of self and feelings, inner narratives, values and needs.
  • Value the spaciousness of time to think, question and dream.

Acceptance

  • Embrace uncertainty, disequilibrium and inconvenient truths.
  • Allow change to change you.
  • Be alterable and adaptive, vulnerable and open to the help and collaboration of others.
  • Be relatable, be human, be you.

Adaptability

  • Develop new habits by trying things before you know.
  • Institutionalise a learning practice by valuing time invested in both experimentation and reflection.
  • Challenge limiting and outdated beliefs which hold you back as loyalties to the past.
  • Fail fast, fail forward, fail with grace and composure - and learn.

Authenticity

  • Have the courage to feel, think and sense, and to name your experience explicitly with integrity.
  • Do your own 'inner' work - and make your learning available to others.
  • Express the adaptive challenges and opportunities as an invitation to growth, with humility, empathy and compassion, while maintaining clarity of focus and discipline.
  • Sit in the fire for as long as it takes (it will be faster in the long run) - premature and false agreement, and fast-fix technical solutions never properly address adaptive challenges.

Action

  • Build a psychologically-safe holding environment for 'naming elephants in the room' and bringing all the talents to the table.
  • Dialogue, diagnose, interpret and reframe with courage and clarity, invite and engage others.
  • Embrace and validate creative tensions, disagreement and obstacles as generative sources of even greater creativity, innovation and genuine ownership.
  • Remain strategic and systemic, but be prepared to act locally and with pragmatic decisiveness, making tough decisions when needed.
  • Prototype, hack it out, try stuff - you'll never have the whole answer before you start.

We offer a wide range of organisational, intact leadership team, and individual learning experiences, to build your adaptive and conscious practice.

There are three offers you can consider, or customise your own blend:

  • Intact leadership and executive team ‘journeys’.
  • Individual, specialist coaching and learning experiences.
  • E-learning programmes you can draw on alongside other interventions, or on their own.

Scroll down to review the different products and experiences available under each of these offers.

Please contact us if you are interested in talking with us about a custom request.

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Intact leadership and executive team ‘journeys’ to transform capability and confidence, and rapidly elevate performance and transformation

Individual, specialist coaching and learning experiences – both delivered virtually and face to face, and in a variety of settings

E-learning programmes which bring together the best of the latest theory, stories, practices and tools, into pragmatic packages you can draw on alongside other interventions, or on their own

Frequently asked questions

How long can I access a programme or course?

Your e-learning programme, course or module will be accessible to you for 1 year from the time you start it.

However in each lesson there are also PDFs, tools, products and exercises, that we think you will want to keep - you can download them, or print them.

What if I fall behind and out of step with the programme timing?

All significant learning commitments require some dedication.  This means making conscious choices, and carving out the time to acquire, experiment with, and reflect on what you are exploring.  Sometimes, this is going to clash with other priorities and occasionally it might feel a little overwhelming - even for the most dedicated learner.  If you know that a busy period is coming up, plan for catch-up time in the weeks that follow.

Some of our longer programmes involve following a specific timetable with a group - with new modules 'starting' at a given time.  This may tie in with Peer Support Group meetings, and/or with workshops or webinars with either open or intact groups.  If this is the case for your programme, an important aspect is that you are not alone - but in a community of learners.  The timings of 'live' experiences or group meetings are rarely changed once the programme starts, as this would impact negatively on your colleagues and co-learners.  Keeping up with others, so that you share your learning and benefit from their experience, is important.

Get into the learning habit, and if you have concerns about whether you will be able to do this, and if you fall behind at any time, just reach out to us and we will try to help.

Can I bundle one course or programme with another and save money?

Some of our courses are already bundled, in particular the shorter courses.  If the course you are interested in IS available in a value-for-money bundle, proceed with your purchase, and before closing the 'sale', you will be notified of this choices at 'checkout'.

If the other courses you are interested in are not bundled right now, just contact us, as we can put a custom bundle together for you.

Can I commission custom courses for my organisation?

Many of our programmes and short courses have been originally developed especially for a client - and, where appropriate, then adapted for a broader audience and turned into an 'open' programme.  It is our clients around the world that 'pull' new content and commission what we go on to build, to meet their needs at any given time.

If you would like to either curate a custom programme from our existing stock, or you have an area of new content that you would like us to look at, just contact us and we can help.

Of course, contact us if you would like to blend in-person experience with e-learning elements.

What if I'm not satisfied with my purchase?

Our courses and materials are getting great feedback from users - but of course it might not suit exactly what you are looking for.

We are always happy to refund you if you start an e-learning course and find it isn't what you wanted.  Please contact us straight after completing the first lesson in the course if you would like us to refund your payment or switch you to a more suitable product.

Please note that we are unable to refund a course that has been more than 50% completed.