Adaptive Leadership (MGMT90264)

In Adaptive Leadership, students learn and apply core knowledge, skills and tools to recognize and navigate leadership opportunities and challenges in the context of digital transformation and dynamic competitive environments. The subject focuses in particular on how to build individual and collective capacity for change and agility.

To this end the subject focuses on leadership competencies in four domains:

• Personal effectiveness (including how to manage attention, and self-care)
• Ethical Judgement (including recognizing and managing biases and personal values in decision making)
• Creativity and Innovation (including the design thinking process, and testing ideas through experiments)
• Organisational Development (including managing organizational learning, and engaging stakeholders and communities)

Building on current academic research and leadership practice, students devise actionable strategies to address complex day-to-day leadership challenges in a context of organizational complexity, disruptive technologies, and diverse stakeholder needs and demands. Students develop skills for critical analysis and reflection, for individual and collective decision making , and for supporting well-being in uncertain and challenging conditions. This subject includes lectures with leading experts, case studies, contemporary readings and resources, webinars, and facilitated online group discussions.