An adaptive leadership team is composed of members with complementary skills committed to a common purpose. Today, leadership requires a team approach to navigate volatile business environments. Adaptive leadership teams demonstrate distributed leadership, a clear charter, mutual trust, and the ability to process information and respond to changes. They empower members to take risks within agreed parameters and fluidly share leadership across roles. Analyzing a team's traits and roles helps strengthen its adaptive capabilities.

2. Questions?
• What is a Team?
• What do you mean by Adaptive Leadership Team?
• What are the qualities of a Adaptive Leader?
• What are the winning traits of an Adaptive Team?
• How to strengthen a Team’s Adaptive Capability?
• How to indentify teams issues and challenges?

3. TEAM
A group of two or more people with
complementary skills who are committed to a
common purpose and approach for which the
team holds its members mutually accountable.

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5. Today’s Leadership Team Needs
• Today’s business environment is very volatile,
uncertain and globally distributed.
• Leadership at top need to act as a team sport, not a
heroic Individual effort.
• Matches are won by teams and not individuals.
• A leader cannot single-handedly manage such
conditions.
• Leadership at the top is now a team effort.

6. Leadership Level and Associated Tasks
Facing adaptive challenges, creating meaning.
Innovation, change, dealing with paradigm shifts
Adaptive Leadership,
Relational Dialogue Holistically framing issues, creating context for
Social Leadership dialogue, managing creative conflict and tension.
Leadership Level III Stimulating/consolidating organizational learning
Inter-Personal Influence
Relationship-Based Creating commitment, alignment, motivation,
Leadership spirit, teamwork, and political skill
Leadership Level II
Personal Dominance Setting direction, priorities, mission,
Leader-Based Leadership vision, goals, purpose and taking
immediate action
Leadership Level I

7. Adaptive Advantage Index scores

8. What Makes an Adaptive Leadership Team?
Distributed Leadership : The team leader believes in the
value of sharing leadership at the top and developing
leaders at every level.
Optimal Talent Mix : The team is not only composed of
the top talent representing key positions and disciplines
but also has the chemistry that comes from the right
combination of backgrounds, styles, and perspectives.
Clear Charter : The team has defined goals, roles,
ground rules, and accountabilities.
Mutual Trust : Team members are able to express
divergent views and let down their guard to
acknowledge when they need help.

9. Traits of an Adaptive leadership Team
• High-performing adaptive leadership teams have five added
traits that set them apart from those teams that are only
adequate at what they do:
1. One voice -- clarity and consistency of objectives;
2. Sense and respond capability -- the systematic ability to
filter and assimilate external information;
3. Information processing -- the ability to synthesize complex
insights and make high-quality decisions quickly;
4. Freedom within a framework -- team leaders are
empowered to take bold risks within agreed-upon
parameters; and
5. Boundary fluidity -- teams can move both horizontally and
vertically, across roles, to connect with the next level of
leadership.

10. Five traits for Adaptive Leadership Team

11. Looking Across the Five Traits
• In addition to operating separately, the traits combine forces
through powerful patterns of interrelation.
• For example, the one-voice trait, which gives teams alignment
around objectives, makes possible the risk taking involved in
the freedom-within-a-framework trait.
• Information-processing capabilities enhance sense-and-
respond capacity, and vice versa.
• And boundary fluidity allows team members to gather more
wide-ranging information from across the organization around
which to analyze and respond.
• The five traits add up to make a significant impact on financial
performance.

12. What Adaptive Team Leaders
Do Differently?
• The CEOs from the most adaptive teams play a distinctive
role in creating the team context for adaptation.
• Helps people solve problems on their own and reward
accomplishments with autonomy.
• Being a role model and inspires through example.
• Displays deep commitment to the company’s vision.
• Able to face new expectations from their more diverse,
multigenerational workforces.

13. Common CEO vs Adaptive CEO

14. TEAM ANALYSIS SYSTEM (TAS)
Allows an Organization….
• To identify ideal team culture
• Assess actual team culture
• Assesses every team member against the team culture
•Team Strengths
• Roles required

15. TAS Role Factors
Motivator Creates Team Spirit and enthusiasm among people
Analyser Prefers procedures and standards
Specialiser Technical knowledge, Specialist expertise
Supporter Supports, Cares and Helps
Pioneer Drive to Overcome
Anchor Plans, Organises and Administers procedures
Networker Develops contacts and resources
Innovator Creates imaginative solutions to problems
Concluder Completes task