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At a Human Services Tipping Point: How Leaders Move from Ideas to Outcomes
- 1. At a Human Services
Tipping Point:
How Leaders Move from Ideas to Outcomes
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- 2. What does it take to turn
GOOD IDEAS
into better outcomes?
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Increasingly, organizations are asking
not only what to do, but how to do it.
Along the way, human services agencies find themselves
challenging structure, culture, processes, policy,and
even executive sponsorship.
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To make progress — while also managing risk — a new,
adaptive era of leadership is starting to take shape.
Five fundamentals are helping define
adaptive leadership in action.
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FIVE FUNDAMENTALS HELPING TO
DEFINE ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
Honor the positive and build from
strength. You don’t always need a clean
slate. Acknowledge what works and move
forward from there.
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FIVE FUNDAMENTALS HELPING TO
DEFINE ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
Harness staff power for leadership from
within. Bring people with different skills
together and identify and empower
leaders with new perspectives.
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FIVE FUNDAMENTALS HELPING TO
DEFINE ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
See the silver lining in unexpected
places. Optimism and action are key to
countering daunting, high-emotion
problems and breaking through barriers.
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FIVE FUNDAMENTALS HELPING TO
DEFINE ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
Strengthen partnerships with data. Now,
data can help human services providers
meet the needs of the whole person —
but new partnerships and collaboration
between agencies, vendors, legislators
and the private sector is key.
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FIVE FUNDAMENTALS HELPING TO
DEFINE ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
Experiment, experiment, experiment.
When there are no proven solutions, be
bold. Trying innovative approaches means
it must be safe to fail.
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LEARN MORE
about how adaptive leadership is driving innovation
in human services by reading this executive summary
from the 2015 Human Services Summit
at Harvard University:
At a Human Services Tipping Point:
How Leaders Move from Ideas to Outcomes