Adaptive leadership 2026

Leading under pressure, morning session.

How being in a powerful position influences stress and behaviors in the workplace? While power reduces stress, a perceived threat to this power can have the opposite effect. This, in turn, can affect risk preferences, power sharing and how you inspire and motivate your team. Participants learn a few simple tools to identify stress triggers and manage their stress and energy levels to continue to lead effectively, even in challenging times.

How to protect yourself, your team and individuals against the negative effects of stress?

Power and stress might be negatively affecting your behavior at work and, thus, your leadership. Power can be endowed by others (through networks, reputation, allies, etc.) or it can come from your expertise, your ability to punish and reward, your charisma.

The Leader as Coach, afternoon session.

Developing the ability of holding effective coaching conversations gives leaders the skills to empower others to develop themselves as leaders, inspire and engage their team, encouraging independent problem-solving, recognising opportunities and ultimately improving performance. Leaders that develop coaching skills also see increasingly higher levels of employee engagement, motivation and efficiency.

Utilising coaching within a leadership role allows top managers to be more effective in inspiring their teams and connecting with them, both as a whole and as individuals, on a deeper level. It helps you to develop trust among team members and create an emotionally balanced work environment.

To be an effective leader/coach, not only do you need to learn how to communicate well and help others to get results, you need to guide, encourage and inspire others to reach their full potential. A great coach is likely to have the following talents or qualities: listening skills; ability to provide constructive feedback; curiosity; empathy; asking powerful, open questions; integrity; collaborative. Some of these characteristics are inherent, others can be learned.