Collaborative Aspects Of Adaptive Leaders

According to Northouse (2016) adaptive leaders “engage in activities that mobilize, motivate, organize, orient, and focus the attention of others. In addition, this approach to leadership is about helping others to explore and change their values” (p. 258). For example, by giving workshops at the workplace that provides exercises to engage the followers and leaders in mobilizing, motivating, organizing, orient, and focus the attention in the other members and in the problem, these people will have to work together and will have to think as a group in order to adapt and be able to solve the problems assigned during the workshop. Activities like these ones will allow leaders and followers to work together and have the tools needed to use collaborative

A characteristic this type of leader should have is the ability to empower the followers, since for Northouse (2016) “adaptive challenges are problems that are not clear-cut or easy to identify. They cannot be solved by the leader’s authority or expertise or through the normal ways of doing things in the organization” (p. 262). If the followers feel empowered and know there is trust and support from the leaders for them to make decisions, the followers will not be afraid of making decisions to be able to adapt to changes or problems that they were not trained for. Besides providing the give the work back to the people behavior to followers, in order for leaders to encourage adaptive and collaborative leadership in organizations, they must be able to provide direction and structure to the followers, as well as to maintain disciplined attention. It is hard for followers to accept any type of change, so by the leader encouraging followers to accept and embrace change without losing the focus on the goal, and promoting team collaboration, the leader is following the adaptive leadership process in order for the group to also adapt to changes and to work towards being