What does it mean to be a “future-fit” leader?

According to our guest this week, being future-fit means improving the performance of organizational leaders to solve the challenges they face today, while expanding their capacities to be more fit for the challenges ahead.

They're not just trying to be better at the old game; they're helping to create an entirely new paradigm for how we work and relate to each other.

Lyssa Adkins has spent the past decade developing leadership teams worldwide, using skillful professional and organizational systems coaching. She is an internationally recognized leadership coach, future of work expert, renowned Agile-coaching pioneer, and author of the top business book, Coaching Agile Teams.

Dive deep with us as Lyssa shares how leaders can replace command-and-control reflexes with adult-to-adult collaboration, deeper sense-making and what she calls a “future-fit toolbox” of cognitive, emotional and energetic skills.

Tools & Resources Mentioned

Methodologies:

• Liberating Structures for group facilitation

• Relationship Systems Coaching

• Open Space Technology

• Sense-making sessions for leadership teams

Technology & Platforms:

• Miro for visual collaboration

• Slack for remote team communication

Influential Thinkers:

• Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi (Zen teacher and conflict mediator)

• Daniel Schmachtenberger (Game B theorist)

• Laura Storm (Regenerative leadership)

• Bob Anderson (The Leadership Circle)

• Michelle Holliday ("The Age of Thriveability")

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyssaadkins

• If you're a leader ready to expand your cognitive, emotional, and energetic toolkit and make a bigger impact in the world, connect with Lyssa at lyssaadkins.com.

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