Ron Heifetz & Marty Linsky's work on Adaptive Leadership at
Harvard has gained attention across the globe by promoting a "here and now"
approach towards building leadership capacity.
Sharon Daloz Parks writes about the processes and practice of
Heifetz in his classroom teaching leadership to mid-career and senior leaders.
Called ""case-in-point" (CIP) teaching, this pedagogical method
focuses on implementing concepts of Heifetz' theory within the class itself,
turning the classroom into a live laboratory where learners can analyse the
immediate, relevant leadership dynamics occurring before them.
CIP works on several assumptions about leadership:
1) leadership is an art not a
science
2) leadership is about adaptation
and change, therefore
3) requires engaging in an iterative
process of experimentation & learning that is difficult, and often elicits
uneven distribution of loss
4) people represent the possibility
and constraint within the system (organisation or community) they are trying to
mobilise
5) therefore the ability to be able
to step out of the system and onto the balcony in real-time will open up more
diagnostic and action options for exercising leadership and maximising chances
of success.
The benefits of Heifetz' CIP model help individuals realise the
current disparity between learning, teaching, and applying leadership whereby
educators may discuss leadership "live" cases or examples within the
classroom itself, but often relegate the analysis of impact of personal
leadership capacity to individual reflection.
In the short time we have together will look at key ideas within
in the theory and practice of teaching adaptive leadership and explore
implications for facilitating leadership development.
Guest Facilitator: Nick Ellem, Harvard trained senior leadership development
consultant and coach specialised in working with organisations, teams and
individuals to identify their adaptive leadership challenges, facilitate
problem solving and build capacity to exercise leadership. The Adaptive
Leadership Framework used in our programs grew out of the work of its
co-founders Dr Ronald Heifetz and Martin Linsky at Harvard University, who
have spent the last 30 years developing leadership art and practice.
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Venue: [Our usual venue]
University of Technology
Sydney (UTS), Jones Street, Ultimo corner Thomas Street. Room 5.580 Level 5,
Building 10, Take the lift to level 5, cross the atrium footbridge,
walk straight ahead to room 580.
Time:
From 5:30pm to 7:30pm
sharp | No RSVP - Just turn up
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