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מנהלים וסוכני שינוי שרוצים לגדול ולצמוח כמנהיגים: אנחנו מציעים דרכים חדשות לחשיבה שיכולה לעזור לכם לעבוד על האתגרים הארגוניים שלכם

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IN OVER YOUR HEAD? TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF IN THE MIDST OF CHANGE AND ADVERSITY

We know that in order to thrive as change agents and leaders, we need to cultivate resilience and self-care. Yet it is common to give everything we can to our cause: every possible waking moment, every iota of energy, every brain cell. Even when we know how important anchoring practices are and yearn for more balance in our lives, we can sometimes find it extraordinarily difficult to actually change our habits of work and life. In this session, you will have the opportunity to dig deeper into your relationship with self-care: identifying the anchors you can connect with, unpacking the pressures you’re under that make change so difficult, and exploring ways to find some freedom from the mindsets and power structures contributing to our epidemic of imbalanced work.

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ENOUGH ALREADY! UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING RESISTANCE TO CHANGE

Are you the one driving crucial change in your team, organization, or community – but you are facing resistance? Resistance comes in many forms: outright opposition, cynical denial (“been there, done that”), stonewalling. It’s frustrating! Why do people resist change? And what can you do to overcome it?

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IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE! STRATEGIES FOR DRIVING (OR COPING WITH) CHANGE AND THE HEAT THAT COMES WITH IT

Disagreement! Conflict! Overwhelm! What’s your impulse? To fight? To run for it? To do anything to make the problem go away? Change necessarily comes with “heat.” Being able to stomach and stay actionable in the midst of heat is a core leadership skill.

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Leadership: It’s not about whether people like you, it’s about how much people learn

Too often, we think of leadership as a popularity contest: A great leader is someone who’s popular – right? Right? That’s far from true. We think, leadership is all about mobilizing people to face complex challenges and unpleasant truths in order to learn and making progress. That often requires helping people face harsh realities, question privileges, manage loss, and build new capacities. “If you want to make people happy, sell ice cream – don’t exercise leadership”, says Harvard leadership professor Ronald Heifetz. Easier said than done – most of us want to be liked! How can acknowledge this need – and redirect attention to the important leadership work and help people through difficult change?

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Leadership: It’s not about offering solutions, it’s about driving progress

Too often, we think of leadership is about “fixing” problems and offering solutions. That’s particularly true for those of us in management roles – after all, isn’t that what we were hired for? The reality is more complex. A key leadership skill is to know when problem-solving is the right approach – and when you need to mobilize learning in others in order to drive progress.

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Leadership: It’s not your role - it’s what you do

Too often, we think of leadership as a position we hold – team lead, the managing director, or CEO. And we hold back on leading until we assume that role. Or, we think of leadership as a personality trait that some people are born with – and we hold back on leading because we feel we lack the necessary charisma or gravitas. These are ways of thinking about leadership that are self-limiting. At KONU, we subscribe to the idea that leadership is something you do – it’s an activity (Heifetz 1994).

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An experiential workshop for change agents

The Adaptive Leadership Lab

Why is change so difficult? Why are the people in power not addressing the problems that need the most attention? How can I mobilize people to change even if everything feels unpredictable and everyone is standing their ground?

If these questions sound familiar, the Adaptive Leadership Lab is for you.

The need for progress and change on difficult systemic issues is all around us: digitalization, issues of diversity and inclusion, political uncertainty, conciliation of social impact and financial sustainability, necessity for environmental sustainability, the list goes on. These are only a few in the range of complex political, technical, and social challenges that organizations and communities face. People are increasingly called on to lead their teams through significant operational and cultural reforms. The attributes that served our management well in the past - technical expertise, respect for functional and industry boundaries, and deference to hierarchy - are no longer sufficient. To fulfill our organizations’ mission, other, more adaptive approaches are needed.

During this program, you will develop capabilities and learn about tools to affect change in your organizations through small and large group exercises, presentations, and peer-consultations on your own leadership challenges and dilemmas. In these workshops, we will use your own cases and stories to understand the complexity of the dynamics in your work environment and to create paths for progress on the issues you care about.

If you have any more questions about the Adaptive Leadership Lab, please contact us here.

Withstanding the Pressure for Quick Fixes and Easy Answers – Leadership Strategies for Navigating Disruption and Fostering Innovation

Learn how to look deeper and address the underlying leadership challenges facing your community.

Have you ever tried to fix a problem only to have your solution backfire? Have you ever spent weeks crafting a 7-point strategic plan with your team, only to see it filed away while business continues as usual? Or maybe someone in a position of authority in your community consistently over-promises and under-delivers?

This session will help you discover why.

Humanizing Complexity – Applying Systems Thinking to Teams, Organizations, and Stakeholders

Learn how to step back from a challenge to get a bird’s-eye view. How to step up to the balcony to observe the whole dance floor.

Exercising real leadership demands rigorous diagnostic work. You must chart the political landscape to successfully mobilize people for change and make long-lasting progress.

But once you have a diagnosis, how do you act? What moves should you make? What roles do you and others in your community need to play to tackle the challenge and move the work forward? This session offers a concrete approach to mapping the key players so you can engage them in the difficult work of adaptive change.

Leading with and Beyond Your Authority - Mindset Shifts for Leading from Any Chair

Reboot your understanding of leadership and authority and learn how to engage in the dance of real leadership in a complex world.

Today’s volatile and unpredictable world cannot be navigated by a single hero who promises to save us all. We need people to exercise leadership in every sphere of society, no matter what their roles are. Organizations, businesses, and communities require leadership that is ongoing, systemic, inclusive, and courageous.

But if you’re going to lead change that is impactful and sustainable, you need to properly understand the resources at your disposal, while also identifying the constraints and limits of your authority. This knowledge is critical to help your community learn and make progress together.

Something Has to Change - Uncovering Obstacles to Self-Care Amidst a Crisis of Overwork

We know that in order to thrive as leaders, we need to cultivate resilience and self-care. Yet it is common for mission-driven leaders to give everything they can to their cause: every possible waking moment, every iota of energy, every brain cell. Even when we know how important anchoring practices are, and yearn for more balance in our lives, we can sometimes find it extraordinarily difficult to actually change our habits of work and life. It’s easy to see this as a failure of our own will or effort, but when we look closer, we often find that widespread cultural mindsets and practices are significant factors preventing change.

In this session, you will have the opportunity to dig deeper into your relationship with self-care: identifying the anchors you can connect with, unpacking the pressures you’re under that make change so difficult, and exploring ways to find some freedom from the mindsets and power structures contributing to our epidemic of imbalanced work.

Enrolling for the Job to be Done - Frameworks and Tools for Thriving in a Role Transition

One of the most complex experiences in professional life is transitioning into a new role. We often look to role transitions with excitement, thrilled about more responsibility, impact, and influence. We think we might have a lot of room to shape the roles and to deploy the resources and people that come with it only to see how overwhelming, frustrating, and constraining new roles can be.

Roles are shaped much more by the context than by us. Organizations create roles because there is a job that needs to be done. And people do not relate to you as the complex, wonderful, thoughtful human being you are, but as the role you play.

Role transitions often are demanding experiences. They require learning new mindsets and behaviors that match the demands of the new role and setting aside long-held paradigms that served us previously. They require (re-)setting expectations and managing disappointments and boundaries.

This session will explore that learning challenge. Manager and Leadership Development often underestimate the developmental aspect of role transitions and overfocus on skills and tools. We will offer concrete exercises and discussions you can use to organize the deep learning and growth that is demanded by a role transition. This session is ideal for individuals experiencing imminent transitions in their roles at work, or managers and people professionals who are supporting staff through these transitions.

Breaking the Zoom Barrier – Leading in Virtual and Hybrid Spaces

The COVID-19 pandemic had drastic implications for organizations around the globe: well-functioning teams have suddenly needed to sustain effective collaboration without being able to meet in person. Working remotely and collaborating in the virtual "space" of email and teleconference makes it harder to exercise leadership and navigate complexity. To further complicate the matter, the next year promises to bring new “hybrid” experiences, where some have returned to the office and others have not.

The challenge to lead in virtual and hybrid spaces is twofold: Many of the tried-and-true strategies for building connection don't work or lose their depth, and it is often more challenging to achieve alignment and accountability around the work of the team. So, exercising leadership in the virtual space requires learning new ways both to foster connection and to maintain the quality and sophistication of your team's problem-solving.

This session introduces you to conceptual and practical tools you can use to address these challenges. This session is ideal for anyone who is in the position of leading meetings or other activities for their team and would like to strengthen the team’s engagement and problem-solving capability.

Anchoring Yourself: Sustaining Leadership in Turbulent Times

Reconnect to the practices, spaces, and mindsets you need to sustain yourself for long-term leadership.

Leadership is a difficult act. Too often we see acts of brave leadership end in burnout, firing from a position, or marginalization. To avoid these requires deep stability in the face of uncertainty. It requires creativity, patience, and persistence in the face of constant setbacks and challenges. To sustain in this way requires a set of ongoing practices for self-care and re-connection to purpose.

If you’re going to lead change for the long-term, you need anchoring practices and mindsets to keep you going. This session will help you gain new understandings of your role in leadership and take actionable steps toward sustaining yourself for the long term.

Holding Environments Across Boundaries of Identity

In a volatile, uncertain, complex, and adaptive world, people often feel disregulated and alone. More than ever, we are facing into this reality, given that COVID-19 has brought physical isolation and huge shifts in our work life. For those attempting to support their communities in this moment, particularly in the virtual realm, it can be a challenge to create spaces for connection.

This workshop offers lessons from Adaptive Leadership on creating and maintaining holding environments for relational, purpose-driven work. We will explore the emotional components of leadership in this moment and discuss the role of holding environments in regulating disequilibrium. We offer specific tools and tips to build online holding environments to maintain community trust, solidarity, and communication within organizations in this difficult time.

Inclusive Leadership Strategies and Interventions

Deepen your understanding of your options for exercising leadership

You've stepped onto the balcony. You've diagnosed the system. You know it's time to make a move. But, how?

In this workshop, you'll learn strategies for exercising leadership. Together, we'll explore the range of interventions you could use in a system.

Communities and Collaborative Support

Bring a challenge you would like the group's support on!

In this time of uncertainty and crisis, we don’t have a shortage of challenges - both individually and organizationally. How to help my team go virtual? How to get through the crisis sane and healthy? How to keep attention on my important initiative when everyone is only thinking about Corona? How to take care of myself and my team members?

Whatever your challenge is - in times of crisis it is even more important to not be alone. Our session will offer you support through peer-coaching practices to gain new perspectives, explore insights, and create new options for what might feel an intractable situation.

The Crisis Challenge: Skills for Leading in Moments of Loss, Uncertainty, and Threat

Deepen your leadership practice for this crucial moment.

The current moment confronts us with a special kind of leadership challenge, the Crisis Challenge. As citizens, family members, change agents, executives, health workers, and elected officials, we are all tackling a lot -- an imminent health and economic threat, the longstanding issue of systemic racism, the anxieties and the anger around and within us, and adaptations that we and our groups, communities, and organizations need to make short-term and long-term. Given what is at stake, this can be overwhelming.

In this workshop we will explore the work required for the practice of leadership to address the imminent danger, to hold people through their emotions, to address the deeper issues, and build new capacities.

Leadership Intensive - Skills and Drills for Leading Change

The Inner Struggle: Introduction to Immunity to Change

Why is change so hard?

Have you ever made a New Year’s Resolution? Several years in a row? With no success? Have you ever received the same feedback several times? Have you ever faced other people’s resistance as you work to drive an important change initiative in your community?

The Immunity to Change process underscores why our most stubborn and persistent behaviors are difficult to change by illuminating our competing commitments and big assumptions. Only once those blocks have been identified can we truly develop strategies for overcoming resistance and pushbacks.

Leadership Intensive - Skills and Drills for Leading Change

Don’t Do It Alone: Partnership and Alliances

Bust down silos and build bridges to form partnerships across different factions.

As society increasingly fractures into narrow partisanship, cultural silos, and social media filter bubbles, more and more people are feeling disconnected. This atomization increases the diversity and variety of adaptive challenges, while at the same time reducing our ability to work together to solve them. We need leaders willing to work across these boundaries and open space for true dialogue and partnership. Leaders who appreciate both the strengths and constraints of diverse cultures and groups, and who can mobilize action in the midst of that diversity.

Leadership Intensive - Skills and Drills for Leading Change

Resist the Temptation: Leadership and Seduction

Know your personal tuning and learn to avoid common traps that endanger your valuable work.

There’s a reason why leadership is so damn attractive. Power and influence appeal to almost everyone on a primal level, drawing us towards the people who wield it. At the same time, those people in authority roles are often lonely and desperate for intimacy. Unfortunately, these needs and temptations often result in disastrous consequences.

You have seen it before: A supposedly funny innuendo devolves into egregious behavior, or even an indecent assault. Or an innocent flirtation morphs into an inappropriate affair. Or office gossip pollutes the social atmosphere, distracting people from important work and negatively impacting morale.