Help leaders stop solving adaptive problems with technical fixes.
Adaptive Leadership Skills is a complete 2-day programme on the FLEX framework, grounded in Heifetz and Linsky's adaptive leadership work — facilitator guide, slides, workbook, case studies and assessments, written by Bodhih Training and ready for you to deliver.
- FLEX — Face Reality Clearly, Lead Through the Unknown, Engage and Mobilise Others, eXpand Your Leadership Range
- Built on Heifetz & Linsky, Snowden's Cynefin framework, Liz Wiseman's Multipliers and Amy Edmondson's psychological safety
- Participants work on their own 'stuck' challenge and leave with a complete Adaptive Challenge Map
- Case studies that show the cost of misdiagnosis — and what raising the temperature well can achieve
Adaptive Leadership Skills Trainer Toolkit by Bodhih Training — built on programmes delivered to 2,000+ companies since 2008.
The workshop is on the calendar. The material isn’t.
Adaptive leadership is easy to explain, hard to teach
Most leaders nod at 'technical versus adaptive'. Designing activities that make them diagnose their own challenge honestly — and sit with the discomfort — takes careful sequencing.
Change programmes that feel like process
Participants have seen change models reduced to checklists. You need something that works with values, loss and resistance, not just stakeholder grids.
Nothing to take back on Monday
Sponsors want to see what leaders will do differently. Without a structured map and a 90-day plan tied to a real challenge, the insight fades.
Picture the evening before your programme.
Picture the first morning. You ask each leader to name the challenge that has resisted every good solution they have tried. Then you introduce the idea at the heart of Heifetz and Linsky's work: the problem may not be the solution — it may be the diagnosis. Quietly, people start re-reading their own situation.
Day 1 is Face Reality Clearly and Lead Through the Unknown. They sort the technical from the adaptive in their challenge, practise getting on the balcony to see the pattern, place it on the Cynefin framework, and assess whether their team is in the productive zone of distress or beyond it. The Facilitator Guide holds every instruction and debrief question.
Day 2 moves to Engage and Mobilise Others and eXpand Your Leadership Range: mapping what each stakeholder stands to lose, drafting an adaptive communication, and examining the leadership default they reach for under pressure. They leave with a complete Adaptive Challenge Map and a 90-day development plan.
And you'll likely notice the room's language shift — from 'what's the fix?' to 'whose work is this?' — before the programme is over.
What you will deliver
A complete design, sequenced and timed — so every session has a purpose and every activity lands.
- Framework
- FLEX — Face, Lead, Engage, eXpand
- Length
- 2 days · 14 contact hours
- Research base
- Heifetz & Linsky, Cynefin, Multipliers, psychological safety
- Audience
- Junior leaders, all sectors
- Key output
- Adaptive Challenge Map + 90-day plan
Face Reality Clearly — technical vs adaptiveDay 1
Diagnosing which parts of a challenge need expertise and which need people to change.
The balcony perspectiveDay 1
Stepping out of the action to see patterns in a live challenge.
Lead Through the Unknown — Cynefin and complexityDay 1
Matching leadership approach to the kind of situation you are in.
Productive distress and temperature regulationDay 1
Keeping pressure high enough for change and low enough to work.
Engage and Mobilise OthersDay 2
Stakeholder loss mapping and adaptive communication.
eXpand Your Leadership RangeDay 2
Examining leadership defaults and practising new responses.
Integration — Adaptive Challenge MapDay 2
Pulling FLEX together into a complete map and a 90-day plan.
Everything for the room. Nothing left to build.
Unlocks the moment you pay. Until then, here is exactly what you will be downloading.
To deliver
- Facilitator Guide — session plans, timings, activities and debrief questions
- Main Slide Deck plus a Simple Backup Deck
- Virtual Delivery Guide
For participants
- Participant Workbook with the technical-adaptive diagnostic, stakeholder loss map and Adaptive Challenge Map
- Pre-Work Reading on adaptive challenges
- Role-Play Scenario Pack for adaptive communication
- Case Studies, including a transformation that stalled through misdiagnosis
- Quick Reference Cards for the four FLEX pillars
To measure
- Assessment Instruments
- Participant Feedback Form
- Certificate Template
To design & sell
- Training Design Document — theoretical basis, structure and evaluation plan
- Marketing Toolkit — nomination email and an investment case built on the case studies
What your participants will be able to do
Designed for junior leaders navigating significant organisational change; leaders whose teams face genuine uncertainty or complexity and leaders with a challenge that feels stuck despite good work — in any sector.
- Diagnose the technical and adaptive dimensions of a real current challenge honestly
- Take a balcony view of their primary challenge and place it on the Cynefin framework
- Assess the team's level of distress and plan how to regulate the temperature productively
- Map what each stakeholder stands to lose and draft an adaptive communication
- Identify their own leadership default and plan how to expand their range
- Complete an Adaptive Challenge Map and a 90-day development plan
Walk in with data. Walk out with proof.
Trainers who measure before and after design sharper sessions — and get rebooked. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has assessments that sit naturally alongside this programme.
Walk in knowing where every participant starts.
Pair Adaptive Leadership Skills with an AssessAll assessment. Participants take it before the workshop, so you can tune the emphasis to the room; they retake it afterwards, so you can show the client what actually moved. Better-targeted sessions, and evidence that wins the next booking.
- Change Leadership & AdaptabilityView assessment ↗
- Learning Agility — InteractiveView assessment ↗
- Decision-Making Under UncertaintyView assessment ↗
Nothing quite fits? Create your own assessment on AssessAll, or ask the AssessAll team to build one around this programme’s objectives for you.
That is the design work already done for you — research, session plans, slides, activities and assessments. Spend it facilitating, selling your next programme, or simply switching off.
The honest comparison
| Building it yourself | This toolkit | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a deliverable programme | 60–120 hours of design | Ready today |
| Session plan with timings | Built from scratch | Included, minute by minute |
| Activities, role plays, cases | Hunted down one by one | Written for this programme |
| Assessment and feedback | Often skipped | Instruments and forms included |
| Virtual delivery version | A second project | Guide included |
| Cost | Your weekends | One payment |
Made for people who stand at the front of the room
Leadership trainers and coaches
Offer a research-backed programme on leading through uncertainty that works with each participant's real challenge.
In-house L&D during change
Equip leaders before or during a restructure, merger or transformation with a shared language for adaptive work.
Training companies
Add a distinctive change leadership programme with consistent materials for every facilitator.
18 years in real training rooms, packaged for yours.
Bodhih Training has designed and delivered corporate programmes since 2008 — for first-time managers, sales teams, leadership cohorts and whole organisations. These toolkits are that reach, distilled: the structures, activities and materials that hold up in front of real participants, written so another trainer can pick them up and deliver with confidence.
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- STEP 3
Brand it and deliver
Every file is editable Word or PowerPoint. Add your logo, your examples, and run it.
Help leaders get unstuck.
Download the complete FLEX programme, make it yours, and give leaders the diagnosis their hardest challenges have been waiting for.
Licensed to the buyer to deliver this programme to their own participants and clients, in person or online, and to adapt and brand the material. Reselling or redistributing the files is not permitted.
The rest of the Bodhih family, when you need it
Make the workshop last beyond the room
A workshop is two days; the behaviour change takes months. Jobulary turns assessment evidence into a focused individual development plan (IDP) — a few quarterly objectives built on real work, re-measured honestly. Give every Adaptive Leadership Skills participant a plan to carry forward.
IDPs are launching soon — the working demo is free to explore now, no sign-up.
Rather have us deliver it?
If you want Adaptive Leadership Skills run for your organisation by Bodhih Training’s own facilitators — in person, live virtual or blended, customised to your context — we deliver it end to end.
solutions@bodhih.com · +91 99000 11601. Building your own facilitation skills? See Bodhih’s Train the Trainer certification.
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What is the difference between technical and adaptive challenges?
In Heifetz and Linsky's adaptive leadership model, technical challenges can be solved with existing expertise, while adaptive challenges require people to change values, beliefs or ways of working. A common leadership failure is applying technical solutions to adaptive challenges — the pattern this programme teaches leaders to diagnose.
What is the FLEX adaptive leadership framework?
FLEX is the four-part structure of the programme: Face Reality Clearly (honest diagnosis), Lead Through the Unknown (complexity, the balcony view and productive distress), Engage and Mobilise Others (stakeholder loss and adaptive communication) and eXpand Your Leadership Range (moving beyond your defaults).
Is this suitable for virtual delivery?
Yes. The toolkit includes a Virtual Delivery Guide for running the programme live online.
What exactly do I get in the Adaptive Leadership Skills trainer toolkit?
14 editable files: Training Design Document, Facilitator Guide, Slide Deck — Simple Backup, Slide Deck — Main, Virtual Delivery Guide, Participant Workbook, Pre-Work Material, Case Studies, Role-Play Scenario Pack, Quick Reference Cards, Assessment Instruments, Participant Feedback Form, Certificate Template, Marketing Toolkit. Word and PowerPoint formats, so you can add your own branding and examples — and a single ZIP to download everything at once.
How much does the Adaptive Leadership Skills toolkit cost?
₹2,999 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $29 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
How and when do I receive the files?
Immediately. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. The link works from any device without a password.
Can I deliver this programme to my clients and put my own logo on it?
Licensed to the buyer to deliver this programme to their own participants and clients, in person or online, and to adapt and brand the material. Reselling or redistributing the files is not permitted.
How can I measure what participants learn in Adaptive Leadership Skills?
The toolkit includes its own assessment instruments and feedback form. For a scored pre- and post-workshop measure, pair it with an assessment from AssessAll, Bodhih's sister assessment platform — for example Change Leadership & Adaptability or Learning Agility — Interactive. If nothing fits, you can build your own assessment on AssessAll or ask the AssessAll team to create one for you.
Can Bodhih Training deliver the Adaptive Leadership Skills programme for my organisation?
Yes. Bodhih Training (bodhih.com) can facilitate the programme in person, live virtual or blended, customised to your context. Contact solutions@bodhih.com or +91 99000 11601.
How long is the programme?
2 days · 14 contact hours · blended. The facilitator guide shows how to run it as designed, and the virtual delivery guide adapts it for online sessions.