Toolkit for Turbulence : The Mindset and Methods That Leaders Need to Turn Adversity to Advantage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winter, Graham.

Contributor:

Bean, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2023.

Summary:

Don't just survive adversity: turn it to your advantage To succeed as a high-performing leader today, you need to know how to navigate extreme change and uncertainty. Toolkit for Turbulence unpacks the mindset and methods used by top leaders and teams to assess, adapt, and respond to unforeseen challenges and ambiguity. With this book, you'll learn how to seize the unexpected as an opportunity to develop your leadership capabilities and build a more adaptive team. From visual models to guided frameworks, Toolkit for Turbulence shares easy-to-implement core tools that you can use to construct your own leadership solutions -- solutions that suit the unique needs of your team, your enterprise, and your community. Authors Graham Winter and Martin Bean CBE share timely advice and practical strategies, together with compelling, real-world stories from prominent executive leaders across a variety of industries. In Toolkit for Turbulence, you'll discover how top leaders succeed even in times of crisis. Backed by performance psychology, the tools in this book will show you how to build the flexibility and resilience your team needs to thrive in a volatile, unpredictable world. In Toolkit for Turbulence, you'll learn how to: Be an advantage leader: a leader who welcomes disruption, grasps opportunities to adapt, and builds teams and cultures capable of turning adversity into advantage Use learning loops and training canvases to guide your team in responding effectively and continuously to challenges Recognise and embrace nonlinear challenges, which require leaders and teams to adopt new ways of thinking and working Be responsive and proactive (rather than reactive and defensive) and recalibrate when things don't go as expected Develop a resilient, adaptive leadership mindset, training your mind and transforming the way you think and behave With Toolkit for Turbulence, executives and leaders at all levels can build their strategies for weathering today's only certainty: uncertainty. Its crucial insights into how to pivot dynamically and successfully will prepare you to navigate the unexpected with your organisation and your team -- every day, in real life and real time.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

Six parts

Building your own toolkit

Part 1 Pathway: … from disruption to advantage

Chapter 1 The moment

Martin Bean: leaning into disruption

Never to go back

No plan survives first contact with the enemy

Positive disruption

Graham Winter: finding the right moment

Martin's playbook

The gathering storm

Advantage leaders

Insights

Turning adversity to advantage

Chapter 2 Advantage leader

The accelerant

In-the-field experience

The toolkit

Mental models

Graham Winter: reimagine and reset

The three principles

Principle 1. Calibrate your mindset

Principle 2. Engage your team to build, test and learn a new toolkit

Principle 3. Be the coach your people need

Encouragement

Part 2 Mindset: … from defensive to adaptive

Chapter 3 Linear versus nonlinear

Context shapes us

Know your challenges

Capability 1. Notice the differences

Be alert to the nature of challenges

Capability 2. Adapt your approach

Capability 3. Apply different tools

The most common leadership failure

Beware the dragons

Alert your team to the nonlinear

Recap

Chapter 4 Defeat the defensive mindset

Superpower

Defensive or adaptive?

Why adaptive mindset matters so much

Train your adaptive mindset

See

The threat response

What is happening?

How do you know?

Squirm

Welcome to the squirm

Threat and reward

Embrace the squirm

Seek

Go towards the fire

Decompartmentalise after

Mindset can change at scale

Why change doesn't have to be slow

Make the implicit explicit

Part 3 Recalibrate: … your leadership paradigms

Chapter 5 Paradigm shifts

Paradigms and mindsets

Element A. Ride the storm

1. Understand your new context

2. Reimagine your strategy.

3. Switch on your team

4. 10x communication

5. Loop and learn

Element B. Create the storm

1. Scan for opportunities

2. Challenge and change assumptions

3. Get your team on board

4. Coach for innovation

5. Nail the landing

Element C. Recalibrate your mindset

Chapter 6 It starts with you. Anchor on personal values

Reimagine

Graham Winter: black swan decisions

Real values aren't on the wall

1. Authenticity

2. Awareness

3. Adaptability

Graham Winter: on meeting Martin for the first time

Martin Bean: courage is my starting point

The values anchor

Values in action

Chapter 7 Let go. Accept the externalityof change

The psychology of certainty and control

Go with the instability

Core principles

Principle 1. Embrace the highway of uncertainty

Crossing the highway of uncertainty

Remember the adaptive squirm

Principle 2. Deal with loss

Letting go means loss

The pathway and loss

Control is overrated. Cross the highway

Chapter 8 Dial up the learning

Loops and insights

The pace is on

Apply the discipline of loops

What's in that loop?

Loop and learn shortcuts

Shortcut 1. Apply the PDCA principles

Shortcut 2. Choose shortcuts

Get insights from the field

What are you missing?

Insights tell you what's really going on

Training the habit of insights

Start with curiosity

Habit 1. Seek insights

Habit 2. Absorb insights

Habit 3. Act on insights

Chapter 9 Prioritise self-care

Performance and wellbeing

Know your energy patterns and habits

Beware the burnout threshold

Warning signs on the pathway

Attend to your inner game

Peak zone and performance zone

A blueprint for your A-game

Mind zones

Step 1. Understand the blue, red and green zones

Step 2. Identify your A-game triggers and blockers.

Life pillars

Performance practices

Step 3. Commit to self-care habits that trigger your zone

Part 4 Team up: … to align, collaborate and learn together

Chapter 10 A blueprint for teamwork

A shared framework

Three core elements

Align

Collaborate

Learn

Operating rhythm

Team Canvas

How to use the Team Canvas

Phase 1. Evaluate

Phase 2. Envision

Phase 3. Assemble

Phase 4. Implement

Phase 5. Adapt

Before we move on

Chapter 11 Align for total commitment

BUILDING BLOCK 1 Direction

Both, and

Paradox mindset

Choosing the team direction

Item A. Team purpose

Co-creating the team purpose

Team Diamond

Deploying the Team Diamond

Item B. Capturing the hearts and minds

BUILDING BLOCK 2 Focus

Item A. Team commitments (behaviours)

Item B. Team deliverables

Building the habit of delivering at pace

Accountability

Deliverables

Actioning the deliverables

Chapter 12 Collaborate as one

BUILDING BLOCK 3 Connection

One team

The spirit of sharing

Getting to know the five shares

Share the big picture

Share the reality

Share the air

Share the load

Share the wins and losses

Applying the five shares with your team

Item A. Building trust-based relationships

Trust. What do you mean?

Trust in relationships

1. Personal stories

2. Colleague coaching

Item B. Make partnerships as important as teams

Across the boundaries

A mindset for partnering

Introducing the Partnering Quadrant

Quadrant 1. Create rapport and empathy

Quadrant 2. Understand expectations

Quadrant 3. Establish agreements

Quadrant 4. Grow the partnership

An observation

Implementing the Partnering Quadrant

BUILDING BLOCK 4 Synergy

Item A. Problem solving and co-creation.

PROBED collaborative problem solver

PROBED facilitation steps

P Problem

R Realities

O Options

B Best option

E Execution

D Do next

Item B. Decision making

Three showstoppers

Reduce the decision risks

Chapter 13 Make team learning a habit

BUILDING BLOCK 5 Awareness

Team culture

Item A. Openness - reflect, feedback and challenge

Practice 1. Self and team reflection

The power of the pause

Practice 2. Two-way feedback/insights

Practice 3. Constructive challenging

Go first

Item B. Relentless debriefing

Preparing to debrief

Make it a discipline

BUILDING BLOCK 6 Tempo

Navigation

Item A. Disciplined operating rhythm

Find your ideal operating rhythm

Using the Operating Rhythm Canvas

Step 1. Current and desired rituals

Step 2. Principles and standards

Step 3. Events, activities, rituals

Item B. Deliver outcomes at pace

Challenge 1. Delivering Sky to Ground

Challenge 2. Making tough calls on people

Challenge 3. Saying no to pet projects

Rigidity or agility?

Part 5 Coach: … be the coachyour people need

Chapter 14 Be the coach your people need

Unlocking potential

Three shifts in approach

Guiding principles to 'be the coach'

Coaching principle 1. Put people first

It's your choice

Coaching principle 2. Make vulnerability a strength

Why vulnerability matters

Seven signs of vulnerability

Coaching principle 3. Reimagine the performance conversations

The inconvenient truth

Performance partnering

Performance partnering principle 1. Redefine performance

ADEP is sustainable

Performance partnering principle 2. Make it a partnership

Performance partnering principle 3. Learn and loop together

ADEP and performance partnering in action

Guide to the performance partnering steps.

Key points in each ADEP item

Choose the tempo

Make ADEP your coaching frame

Part 6 Scale: … for life, team and enterprise

Chapter 15 Turn adversity to your advantage

Toolkit summaries

Part 1. Pathway

Part 2. Mindset

Part 3. Recalibrate

Part 4. Team up

Part 5. Coach

Part 6. Scale

Primary tools

Choose wisely

Acknowledgements

References

EULA.

Notes:

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Description based upon print version of record.

Apply the discipline of loops

Other Format:

Print version: Winter, Graham Toolkit for Turbulence

ISBN:

9781394208593

1394208596

OCLC:

1407315146