Amplify Training Institute
We’re on a mission to amplify promising employees through our interactive adaptive leadership, high performance, and intrapreneurship (coming soon) programs.
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Take top performers within an organization and prepare them for leadership roles. Through helping leaders develop strategic thinking frameworks and high performance habits, we equip them with the ability to tackle any challenge headed their way.
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Strategic Thinking For Adaptive Leaders Curriculum
Developing an adaptive mindset
Set yourself up for success with the 5 key characteristics shared by world class leaders.
achieving organizational Alignment
Align with organizational goals and foster a culture of innovation and adaptability.
thriving through change
Develop an iterative mindset and achieve a state of continuous improvement through design thinking.
Identifying Opportunities & Creative Problem Solving
Reframe key problems as opportunities for organizational success through the “Jobs To Be Done” framework.
Developing a Strategic Vision
Develop a top down approach to project management through futures & foresight thinking.
Influencing in organizations
Have your ideas heard: appealing to your audience, gaining stakeholder approval, and the adoption curve.
Why Adaptive Leadership?
STRATEGIC THINKING FOR ADAPTIVE LEADERS
It’s the difference between that brilliant engineer, scientist, or marketer that’s just phenomenal at their job and knows what deliverables they need to knock out this week, versus the leader that can look forward, develop a strategic vision, and inspire their team to show up as their best.
Adaptive leadership teaches you how to articulate the right questions.
Adaptive leadership centers around your stakeholders. Whether your stakeholders are customers, other team members, or organizational partners, the first thing you learn is how to understand their needs and motivations around your offerings. Through this, you learn to ask the right questions — and that’s exactly what leads you to the right breakthroughs.
Adaptive leadership makes people better communicators and collaborators
As you learn to see from the perspectives of your stakeholders, you become adept at practicing empathy. This translates to becoming a far better communicator and collaborator, especially when you’re dealing with people outside your field. Patrick the project manager has been pestering you on that deadline, but understanding that keeping the team on track are the KPIs he’s graded on (it’s okay, he’s stressed too) will make for a far more pleasant working environment.
Not to mention, structured exercises and engaging brainstorming sessions improves team dynamics. And when everyone is equally invested in the success of a project, things tend to go a lot more smoothly.
Adaptive leadership leads to state of continuous improvement
When you are able to recognize assumptions for what they are, it’s easy to realize the importance of little bets.
Adaptive leadership teaches you the importance of iteration: version one will not look like version ten. And that’s okay. Rapid and repeated testing is the key to the best version of anything. Whether you are figuring out the best way to motivate a new team member or brainstorming a new product feature, a testing approach reinforces the pursuit of constant improvement.
Disseminating this mindset through an organization’s leaders is the best way to keep a company in tip top shape.
Adaptability is the key to effective problem solving and change management
According to a report by McKinsey, the #1 skill required for managerial positions is effective problem solving. When change happens, leaders need to be prepared. Adaptive leadership is akin to teaching a person how to fish instead of giving them a fish. It’s teaching them how to think and problem solve rather than giving them a list of finite solutions they can memorize (the “if A then B” format).
The key is that it makes an organization’s leaders adaptable. Even if a leader come across a challenge they’ve never encountered, they’re starting out on strong footing to tackle the problem. When you’re constantly thinking on your feet, you get better at rolling with the punches.
Adaptive leadership helps you develop a strategic vision and strengthen a results orientation
Adaptive leadership helps you grasp a new landscape, understand it quickly, and then think strategically about next steps to achieve immediate progress. It teaches you how to productively synthesize information in a way that helps you move the needle forward, taking an organization’s long term goals and objectives into account.
And once you do have a strategic vision, it becomes far easier to prioritize action items in a way that maximizes progress, strengthening your results orientation along the way.
Adaptive leadership can increase employee engagement and satisfaction
Adaptive leadership is an opportunity for serious growth. Presenting an intellectually stimulating challenge is incredibly attractive to high performers and is an opportunity for the company to re-align and re-motivate employees in a new way. It reminds employees that they are actively contributing to something that moves the needle forward for the company. It’s as simple as letting your work be meaningful.
And when employees have ownership over their work, it can reignite the spark that brought them to your company in the first place – even turning around disengaged or underperforming employees. Bringing back the fulfillment factor increases employee satisfaction and engagement, and leaves team members feeling like their roles are full of purpose.