Richard Bolosan Migriño Entrepreneurial Leadership ENTR 40013

BS. Entrepreneurship Section: 1-1

Question # 11

1. What are the respective roles of leader and follower in the adaptive leadership approach?

Leaders help followers do the training they need to do to adjust to their obstacles. Leaders are worried
about how individuals are evolving and adapting to new situations. Leaders are inspiring supporters to discuss
difficult issues. Followers consider the leader's advice and encouragement to address the issue at hand.

2. What are the five activities expected of leaders in this approach? Be able to explain each of them.

The five activities expected of leaders are the ability to mobilize, motivate, organize, orient, and focus the
attention of others. They help others explore and change their values and encourage people to change and learn
new ways of living so that they may do well and grow.

3. What are the key insights of Complexity Leadership Theory?

Within dynamic organizational structures, CLT focuses on approaches and activities that promote
development, innovation and adaptation. In this sense, adaptive leadership is defined as a complex process that
emerges in a social system to bring about adaptive change. This originates in people's struggles or conflicts regarding
competing desires, thoughts, and expectations. It was developed as a complex process.

4. What are the three types of situational challenges leaders face?

 Technical challenges

- are challenges where there are known answers and solutions. For example, production is halted because
the machine is downed, the existing solutions are: 1) called a mechanic, 2) if you are a mechanic, purchase the
replacement parts and repair it yourself, 3) buy a new machine or 4) out-source production. Either ways, there
is a known solution to continue production. Managers, especially seasoned ones, excel at solving technical
challenges.

 Adaptive challenges

- refer to situations where there are no known solutions to the problem or cases where there are too many
solutions but no clear choices. Adaptive challenges are by nature, adaptive, which also means they are fluid and
change with circumstances. Adaptive challenges are volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous in nature.
Solutions to this type of challenge usually require people to learn new ways of doing things, change their
attitudes, values and norms and adopt an experimental mind-set. For example, a machine breaks down once
every couple of months, despite regular maintenance. The adaptive challenge here is the lack of ownership and
care towards the machine because staff members see the machine as company’s property or rather, the
company’s problem.

 Technical and Adaptive challenges Adaptive challenges

5. What are the six leader behaviors prescribed in the model of Adaptive Leadership.

 Get on the Balcony – stepping out of the fray and finding perspective in the midst of a challenging
situation
 Identify the Adaptive Challenge – analyze and diagnose challenges, differentiate between technical and
adaptive challenges correctly
 Regulate Distress – help others recognize the need for change but not become overwhelmed by the need
for change itself, monitor the stress people are experiencing and keep it within a productive range, create
a holding environment, provide direction, protection, orientation, conflict management, and productive
norms, regulate personal distress
 Maintain Disciplined Attention – encourage people to focus on the tough work they need to do
  Give the Work Back to the People – be aware of and monitor the impact they have on others, learn to
curtail their influence and shift problem solving back to the people involved, be attentive to when he or
she should drop back and let the people do the work they need to do
 Protect Leadership Voices from Below – be cautious to listen and be open to the ideas of people who may
be at the fringe, marginalized, or even deviant in the group or organization.

6. What are the four patterns of adaptive change a leader needs to identify in the Adaptive Leadership approach?

Archetype 1: Gap Between Espoused Values and Behavior – when an organization espouses, or claims to adhere to
values that it doesn’t in reality support by its actions

Archetype 2: Competing Commitments – when an organization has numerous commitments and some come into
conflict with each other

Archetype 3: Speaking the Unspeakable – situation when there are radical ideas, unpopular issues, or conflicting
perspectives that people don’t dare address because of their sensitive or controversial nature

Archetype 4: Work Avoidance – situation where people avoid addressing difficult issue by staying within their
“comfort zone” or by using diversionary methods

7. What are the three ways leader can regulate distress in an organization, according to this approach?

 Create a Holding Environment – establish an atmosphere in which people can feel safe tackling
difficult problems, but not so much so that they can avoid the problem
 Provide Direction, Protection, Orientation, Conflict Management, and Productive Norms – help
identify the adaptive challenges that others face then framing these so they can be addressed, be
responsible to manage the rate of adaptive change, orient people to new roles and
responsibilities, handle conflict effectively, establish productive norms
 Regulate Personal Distress – leaders need to keep people focused on the hard work they need to
do and the tension that accompanies that, while at the same time being sensitive to the very real
frustrations and pain that people feel when doing adaptive work, leaders need to make sure they
have their own act together

8. What are avoidance behaviors and why should leaders be concerned about them?

Avoidance behaviors are ignoring the problem, blaming problems on authority or coworkers, attacking those
who want to address the problem, pretending there is no problem, or working hard in areas unrelated to the
problem. Leaders should be concerned because all these behaviors lead to working on anything but the problem. It
is imperative to stay focused on the problem and the task at hand in order to get anything or considerable magnitude
completed.

Thank You 