Culture Building Adaptive Practices

Culture Building Adaptive Practices

Organizational and team culture development is hard work, but where do we start?

• Do you struggle through non-collaborative meetings?
• Do you wonder how to engage your team members?
• Do you walk away from projects frustrated, wondering why they went wrong?

Research, tools, and resources from Adaptive Schools via the Thinking Collaborative are applicable everywhere teamwork is required.

We are all working “to meet the challenges of a changing world. To be adaptive means to change form while clarifying identity. Form can be the ways we structure our organizations and the ways in which we do our work. New challenges require new and increasingly flexible forms. Identity is about who we believe we are as an organization and as professionals.​

The growing body of work on the impact of collaborative adult professional cultures in schools [organizations] offers a positive and productive means for organizing the work of on-going school [organizational] improvement.

Productive teams are developed, not born.” (Thinking Collaborative, 2023)

Here are a few of my favorite tools and resources to grow adaptive practices, all from their resource library:

• Strategies & Moves for Facilitating Groups
• Norms of Collaboration - supporting toolkit for Norms of Collaboration and a Personal Assessment of Norms of Collaboration (see below)
• Planning and Facilitation Thinking and Conversation Guide
  

Reach out if you’d like to discuss how to grow collaboration, engagement, and adaptive leadership in your team or organization.

It always takes intentionality, and you don’t have to suffer.

Check out The False Allure of Technical (vs. Adaptive) Leadership to learn more about technical and adaptive leadership.

Fellow leaders and learners, I wish you courage and joy on the journey,