Next Level Leadership
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$2,990
Course Start Date
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Mar 25 - 27, 2026
IX820 W26 B -
May 4 - 6, 2026
IX820 S26 A -
Aug 18 - 20, 2026
IX820 S26 B -
Oct 7 - 9, 2026
IX820 F26 A
3 days
In-Person at UBC Robson Square :
- 8:30am to 4:30pm (PT)
3 days
In-Person at UBC Robson Square :
- 8:30am to 4:30pm (PT)
3 days
In-Person at UBC Robson Square :
- 8:30am to 4:30pm (PT)
3 days
In-Person at UBC Robson Square :
- 8:30am to 4:30pm (PT)
Next Level Leadership
Mobilizing for organizational change
Former title: Art and Practice of Adaptive Leadership
Every day, leaders face enormous pressure to guide their organizations in complex and rapidly changing environments. The need for innovative solutions has produced extensive changes in the art of leadership. As with any creative discipline, mastery comes with practice.
Next Level Leadership is for participants driven to understand and apply a transformative framework. Learn the art of adapting effectively to disruption, and build skills for activating the potential in people to exercise leadership. Practice collaborative methods for designing innovative solutions that deliver on strategic goals and ensure organizational impact.
- Disrupt the status quo by questioning assumptions that might be holding you back
- Exercise leadership experimentally and tactfully
- Develop strategies and skills for remaining agile in the face of change and disruption
- Keep stress levels within a productive range
- Think critically and creatively to shape new realities
- Create collaborative processes: forge partnerships for mutual gain
- Instill inspiration, hope, and a sense of shared ownership for work
Impact on your organization, team or business:
- Diagnose systemic dynamics and complexities
- Collaborate strategically to build human capacity and capitalize on collective wisdom
- Open lines of communication and identify shared values, to inject work with purpose
- Empower employees to take ownership of organizational challenges
- Drive innovation and sustainable change throughout the organization
Authority vs. Leadership
Identifying the Adaptive Work
- Technical vs. adaptive challenges
- Exploring gaps between adaptive challenges and personal values
- Testing multiple perspectives
- Thinking critically and creatively about organizational challenges
Motivating your Team
- Working across factions and discovering shared values
- Negotiating with authority
- Creating collaborative processes
- Mobilizing engagement and generating innovation
Giving the Work Back
- Facilitating agency and empowering others to take ownership
- Dealing with distractions and avoidance
- Developing strategies for active learning
Orchestrating Conflict
- Surfacing hidden perspectives
- Accepting group tension and directing it toward the work
- Depersonalizing conflicts
- Mobilizing a range of evaluations onto the adaptive work
Regulating Disequilibrium
- Managing stress
- Focusing on collective purpose
- Eliciting and protecting diverse standpoints
Imbuing Adaptive Work with Intention
- Identifying ways in which individual participation matters
- Connecting work with specific tasks, shared values and individual goals
- Discovering options for practicing leadership
Effective Intervening
- Making conscious strategic choices
- Remaining agile in diagnosing the adaptive work
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Client Development Specialist, Professional GrowthWhat other professionals think
This thought-provoking course encourages deep diving diagnostically into persistent challenges, both professionally and personally. Highly recommended!
After this enlightening learning experience I walk away with a new lens through which to see leadership issues, and I feel much more capable to handle complex leadership challenges moving forward.