But being open to learning is a critical capacity for anyone seeking to enable their organizations to adapt.

2. Name the default. If your group has a high level of tolerance for difficult conversations, name the default interpretation you are seeing, and invite people to explore how it inhibits their creativity and adaptability.

are their expectations? What key issues are they worried the off-site will ignore? What would success look like?

Adaptive leadership is the practice of mobilizing people to tackle tough challenges and thrive. The

Sometimes people hold back from leading adaptive change because they just cannot tolerate knowing that they might fail. When

organizations that encourage independent judgment, people ask before making a decision, “What is the right thing to do to advance the mission of the organization?” rather than, “What would the boss want me to do here?”

To expand the array of options, encourage people to come up with more than one possible interpretation.

One way you can inspire people is to speak musically, attending to a number of aspects of your voice, such as cadence, pitch, volume, and tone.

Speak Musically