A framework for leadership development and transformation in the era of AI

Supporting and building the critical leadership capabilities required for the digital age should not be something every leader, designer, practitioner has to start from scratch to achieve. There are fundamentals common to every leader whether in private sector, public sector, not for profit, start up or education.

Many of us are dedicating time and energy trying to understand and explore how best to find and create leaders for the new world of work & government. We see this often, and engage with experts and practitioners on a daily basis trying to figure this out. And time and again we realise that whilst every leader and every organisation is unique, the common mindset and behaviours that fundamentally define good leaders in a digital age are the same.

Thankfully, this is all we do - this is our passion. For years we have done nothing other than obsess with the idea of exemplar leadership in a digital age. We have had the privilege of working with hundreds and hundreds of leaders across different sectors and countries in pursuit of what leadership in a digital age looks like and how to get there. Thousands of leaders have completed our Modern Mindset Leadership Profiling Assessment that is an immersive and transformational experience taking the leader through assessment and reflective journalling to a confidential mentor-coach session to explore the past, present and future. Thus providing the leader with what they need to begin their own transformative journey.

This obsession, this experience in design and delivery, this exposure and engagement with leaders over time, has helped us do the hard work so you can focus on shift and transformation. And we’re dedicated to continuing to do this, so that you can access the Digital Leadership 2.0 Framework in how your leaders should think, behave and act as we travel through the 5th industrial revolution.

The Dilyn Way™

The Dilyn Way™ Digital Leadership 2.0 Framework is a model that helps you define your current modern mindset leadership profile supported by an approach that helps develop modern mindset leadership and align modern mindset leadership to transformation efforts.

The Dilyn Way™ can integrate with your existing frameworks or chosen methodologies. It can seamlessly fit into an existing set of principles. It can be used alone to help you design and deliver leadership coaching, mentoring and development programmes.

Don’t reinvent the wheel. Let us share with you what our Digital Leadership 2.0 Framework looks like when it comes to leading in a digital age, together with our framework guidance for developing this within yourself or within your organisation.

What is the Dilyn Way™?

The Dilyn Way™ is the Digital Leadership 2.0 Framework. Focussing largely on the leaders of a system; shifting mindset and behaviour. The Framework also support change agents throughout the system unlock their leadership potential and authentically power transformation and a better world around them. The Dilyn Way™ Framework believes in change for good one person at a time, one habit at a time. Generating belief in others that builds into trust which eventually creates a groundswell of followership. That’s the people movement that defines true transformation success - not the project or program alone.

The Dilyn Way™ does more than simply help you define where you are and where you want to go. It also helps you get there, using a focussed approach to shifting leadership mindset and behaviours to those needed to lead in a digital age.

Fundamentals of the Digital Leadership 2.0 framework focussing on leadership for the Industrial Revolution 5.0

The Dilyn Way™ Framework supports a central theme of self-accountability. We know, through working in the field, that without leaders ‘being the change’, there will always be challenges with trust and belief, and culture shift will be slow and even become stuck as a result.

The Power of One leader committing to “being the change” they want to see around them is tangible - even more so, when they are accompanied by first and second followers – igniting a movement of followership. This is when the leader truly becomes the catalyst for transformation around them.

The Digital Leadership 2.0 Framework

The Framework’s foundations for a leader on The Dilyn Way™ are what we call the 5 (five) Ps. These provide the stability upon which we can then develop and calibrate the 7 Mindsets of modern leadership against which we can identify where we are now and where we want to be using journey stages. Each element is adaptive. Our commitment and focus at Adapt2digital is to ensure the Framework is constantly up to date providing you with a clear picture of what the Digital Leadership 2.0 Framework looks like for leadership in a constantly changing and complex world.

The 5P’s of leadership in a digital age: