Leadership and Management Programmes

Please read The Work of Leadership (Harvard Business Review. Jan/Feb1997, Vol. 75 Issue 1, p124-134) by Ron Heifetz & D Laurie in Harvard Business Review - which provides an explanation of the theory of "adaptive leadership". You can access this either by copying and pasting the title and author into your internet browser, or by clicking on the link above, for which a Google sign in is required.

Next, read Adaptive leadership in the real world: putting theory into practice (2025) by Ashley Goodfellow. On the session, you will be asked a series of questions on Ashley put The 7 Principles of Adaptive Leadership into practice.

Then review, download and enable editing of the 7 Principles of Adaptive Leadership slides, for use during the session.  You can see on the first slide that the details of each Principle are included and on the second slide the details have been removed. During the session, you will be asked to bring these principles to life for your wicked issue, and you can prepare by reflecting on this beforehand.  Finally, if it is your preference to take notes on the slide pack, and to see the full agenda in advance, you can download the slides from the Resources section below. This is optional and not a requirement.

Public Value

To expand on Public Value, you can watch any of the following from Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education:

 ·      Mark Moore discusses the concept and history of public value (2020) - 12 mins

·       Interview with Professor Mark Moore about public value context (2020) - 14.47 mins

·       Mark Moore discusses implications for leaders in relation to Public Value (2 May 2019) - 7.35mins

Principles of Adaptive Leadership

For more on this, you can watch Barry Eustance and Adrian Stratta, from the Sixess Consultancy, delve in the concept of adaptive leadership (December 2024). Though 29.5 minutes long, a summary is provided, and chapters. You can take your mouse along the timeline at the bottom of the video and see when different sections start and end to focus on specific areas of interest.

If you would prefer to read about adaptive leadership, and for this to focus on the public sector, there is Applying the principles of adaptive leadership to person-centred care for people with complex care needs: Considerations for care providers, patients, caregivers and organizations, Kerry Kuluski MSW, PhD, Robert J. Reid MD, PhD, G. Ross Baker PhD. (2020)

For a longer read, that considers ‘adaptive and systems leadership in support of the continuing challenges and transformation reform agenda within Wales’, there is  Adaptive Leadership Sowing Seeds, written for the Academi Wales and Welsh Government by Martin Lewis and edited by Jo Carruthers, the Director of Academi Wales. (2018)

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