The Canadian Research Centre for Building Adaptability (CRCBA) offers a range of services designed to build adaptive capacity in individuals, leaders, and organizations. We offer a new way to approach change.
Interventions
- Masterclasses
- Webinars (Online & Hybrid)
- Seminars (In-person & Hybrid)
- Consulting (Customized to suit your needs, from Executive Leadership to front-line teams)
- Adaptive Capacity Inventory
Charitable Efforts
- Research on ADAPTING Theory and Building Adaptability
- Support for post-graduate students conducting research on building adaptive capacity
- Educational services including webinars, seminars, and learning guides
First, we must continue to adapt.
ADAPTING Framework
Developed from Dr. Fossey's research, the ADAPTING framework is grounded in complexity theory and Systems Thinking. It provides a conceptual lens to help individuals of all generations build adaptive capacity through Acceptance, Diversity, Attractors, Paradox, Trust, Innovation, Networks, and Generative Tension.
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Accept: Acceptance helps drive the adaptive process |
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Diversity: Diversity provides multiple perspectives and enhances creativity |
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Attractors: People coalesce around issues of importance, forming informal networks that provide multiple perspectives, generate ideas, and allow ideas to build on one another |
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Paradox: A paradox mindset is an effective perspective to help successfully manage tension and recognize the opportunities conflicting (generative) tensions present |
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Trust, support, and communication: A safe space to explore and experiment |
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Innovation: Grows from the ideas and the experimentation generated |
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Networks: Informal networks leverage and build trust, foster an environment of support, promote high levels of communication, and enable relationality |
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Generative Tension: Generative tension is created by the difference between where we are, and where we would like to be |
Proactivity
Connect adaptability with the proactive process, fostering idea generation and experimentation.
Adaptability can be proactive, encompassing the capacity to proactively identify future opportunities for performance improvement and the willingness to make personal changes necessary for positive outcomes.
The proactive process involves finding new ways to add value, experiment, innovate, and change things, in an intended direction, for the better.
Alternatively, the reactive process involves working to maintain, getting along, conforming, reducing experimentation, and being good custodians of the status quo.
The proactive process includes:
- scanning for opportunities
- setting effective goals
- anticipating and preventing problems
- doing different things or doing things differently
- taking action
- perseverance
- getting results
TLDR (too long, didn't read)
CRCBA offers a comprehensive suite of services to enhance adaptive capacity in individuals, leaders, and organizations. This includes various interventions such as masterclasses, webinars, seminars, and tailored consulting. The Adaptive Capacity Inventory, research initiatives, and educational services further contribute to building adaptability.
Central to CRCBA's approach is the ADAPTING framework, grounded in complexity theory and Systems Thinking. This framework guides individuals of all generations through the features of adaptability; Acceptance, Diversity, Attractors, Paradox, Trust, Innovation, Networks, and Generative Tension.
Proactivity emphasizes the proactive identification of future opportunities and the commitment to personal changes for positive outcomes. The proactive process involves scanning for opportunities, setting effective goals, anticipating problems, experimenting, taking action, persevering, and achieving results.
