Coaching practices for Adaptive Leadership on a Budget
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- I keep making the call that looks good this quarter and quietly costs the team a year out, and I want to start deciding like someone holding all this in trust for the long run rather than spending it to hit the number in front of me.
- When I push my team on the hard stuff they either shut down and start blaming each other or just nod and carry on as before
- Everything still flows through me
- I’ve basically written my team off as weak
- Our weekly leadership meeting is just a round-robin of status updates where everyone reports and nobody actually decides anything
Practices that may help
- Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves. - Practice foresight and stewardship
Hold the team’s resources and future in trust — decide for the long game, not just this quarter.
Servant Leadership, Made Practical - Regulate the level of distress in the system
Keep productive pressure high enough to motivate change but low enough to prevent shutdown.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - Distribute leadership rather than centralizing it
Develop leadership capacity throughout the team, not just in the designated leader.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - There are no bad teams, only bad leaders
The same people perform differently under different leadership — so start with the leadership.
Extreme Ownership, Made Practical - Run a weekly leadership team meeting focused on strategic issues
Hold a structured weekly meeting that separates strategic issues from operational updates.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus - Diagnose the challenge before choosing the response
Ask whether the problem requires new expertise (technical) or new values and behavior (adaptive).
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - Lead from the strategic thinking domain — absorb and analyze information
People strong in strategic thinking keep the team focused on what could be, not just what is.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Give the work back without abandoning people
Resist taking ownership of problems that belong to the people facing the adaptive challenge.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - Decentralized command
Push decisions to the people closest to the problem, bounded by a clear commander’s intent.
Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Adaptive Leadership With My Team
Actively encourage your team to question old ways and generate new approaches.
Challenge assumptions and invite new thinking
- Adaptive Leadership
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
- Adaptive Leadership At Work
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
- Adaptive Leadership Development
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
- Adaptive Leadership During A Big Change
Adaptive leadership, developed by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky at Harvard, distinguishes between technical problems (solvable with existing expertise) and adaptive challenges (requiring people to change their values, beliefs, or habits). The core skill is resisting the pull to apply technical fixes to adaptive problems — and instead helping people do the hard work of change themselves.
- Adaptive Leadership For My Teenager
Resist taking ownership of problems that belong to the people facing the adaptive challenge.
Give the work back without abandoning people
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