A manager who carries everything, a team member who waits: nobody wins—work now plays out adult-to-adult.
Hybrid work, AI doing part of the work, decisions that can no longer all go up the hierarchy: the old division of roles is breaking down everywhere. This module offers a different contract, with everyone fully involved on equal terms: the pillars of shared responsibility, the actions that establish it on both sides, and what AI changes about your own responsibility.
~20 min at your own paceKey skill: Autonomy and EmpowermentAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
What you’ll take away
- a fresh look at the parent and child stances that take hold at work
- four principles to rebalance the relationship, from negotiated autonomy to fair rules
- a guide to setting up a written working pact of mutual commitments with your team
Who it’s for
Managers ready to share responsibility, and team members ready to take on more of it within their own scope.
Learning objectives
- Identify the paternalistic pattern where one carries everything and steps in, while the other waits for instructions.
- Move from a Parent-Child relationship to an adult-to-adult relationship, built on four pillars: accountability, autonomy, initiative, and fairness.
- Put in place the three acts of shared responsibility: delegate and take ownership, invite and join in decisions, and flag issues.
- Share oversight of what AI produces: each person keeps control of meaning, ethics, and quality.
How does this module work?
The steps of the Adaptive module.
- Self-assessmentOn nine dimensions, to gauge current habits and guide the practice.
- Expert videoA ~10 min video with three pauses for reflection.
- Practice scenariosThe first two scenarios chosen from the self-assessment, then sixteen more, optional. Every answer gets feedback: what it leads to, and one way to improve.
- Dated commitmentOne action to try, written by the learner or chosen from the suggestions.
- Memo to downloadKey takeaways, questions, commitment, personal notes, and checklists.
Duration: ~20 min. Excluding bonus practice scenarios and optional in-depth content.
