Adaptive leader using skills to work with a team member

Instructor-Led Training

Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive leadership teaches that leaders need to understand the employee development cycle and where their team members are on that cycle. Then they should adapt their leadership style to fit each employee’s development.

It’s important to adapt leadership behaviors and styles to meet individual team members or group needs. In this course, you’ll learn the concepts of adaptive leadership and teambuilding and discover the skills necessary to make these principles an integral part of your leadership toolkit.

Course Outcomes

Recognize leadership style preferences
Identify different leadership styles and team member needs
Define the adaptive leadership model and why it’s an effective tool
Identify team member behavior and skills to lead people effectively in various situations
Recognize consequences when leading people with an inappropriate leadership style
Define the developmental stages of teams
Use adaptive leadership principles and best practices

Course Agenda

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Session 1: Understanding the Leader Framework and Leadership Styles

Session 2: The Adaptive Leader

The role of the adaptive leader
The adaptive leadership model
Analyze the task
The team member development cycle
Diagnose the situation
The adaptive leadership response
When to use the introduction response, the development response or the delegation response
The regression path: disengagement and a decline in performance
How team members feel when different responses are used
Empowering team member development through adaptive leadership
Detect when members are ready for new challenges

Session 3: Teambuilding and Collaboration

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