BUS5 016 Lecture 1: Adaptive_Leadership
Document Summary
Adaptive leadership centralizes around the way leaders help and encourage their followers to change and adapt to new situations and challenges. Adaptive leadership is more follower-centered than leader-centered because it focuses on helping followers tackle tough challenges. Adaptive leaders understand that they need to create a supportive environment. Help followers resolve the challenges they"re experiencing. The model for adaptive leadership consists of situational challenges, leader behaviors, and adaptive work. The three situational challenges are technical, technical and adaptive, and adaptive. Technical challenges are problems in the workplace that can be clearly identified and solved by accepting the leader"s authority. Challenges with both a technical and adaptive dimension can be clearly defined, but the solution isn"t straightforward. Both leaders and followers need to contribute and tackle the challenge together. Adaptive challenges are not easy to identify and require that the leader encourage others and have support in order to generate solutions.
