Cycle of Stuck Workshop | AP Business Collective

Cycle of Stuck

Interrupt the pattern before it becomes the culture.

The Cycle of Stuck is a focused leadership intervention for managers who keep taking on more while the people around them step back.

Organizations Kelvin A. Jenkins has worked with

  • Harvard University
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • SHRM Central California
  • County of San Diego
  • Napa County
  • City of San Luis Obispo
  • San Francisco State University

The pattern

The leader solves. The team steps back. The leader takes on more.

It can look like commitment, speed, or high standards. Over time, it trains the team to depend on the manager and trains the manager to believe carrying more is leadership.

  • 01Problems travel upward instead of capability growing outward.
  • 02Delegation becomes task transfer without ownership.
  • 03The manager becomes the system’s bottleneck.

The Leadership MAP

Leadership does not develop in one dimension. MAP addresses what leaders believe, what they practice, and what other people experience.

MMindsets

How leaders see.

How a leader understands the role, responsibility, authority, growth, conflict, feedback, and success.

AActions

How leaders lead.

The conversations, decisions, coaching, delegation, feedback, and accountability people can observe.

PPeople

Who leadership is for.

How leadership is experienced through trust, clarity, capability, difference, and development.

Change the mindset. Practice the action. Develop the people. That’s the Leadership MAP.

What the intervention creates.

A shared way to recognize the cycle, interrupt it, and practice a different leadership move.

See

Name the cycle without shaming the leader.

Make the familiar pattern visible and connect it to organizational cost.

Choose

Identify the leadership move the moment requires.

Shift from solving for people to developing judgment and ownership.

Try

Practice the conversation while support is present.

Leave with language and action leaders can use in real work.

Included

A focused front-door intervention.

  • 01Sponsor alignment and contextual preparation
  • 02Facilitated Cycle of Stuck workshop
  • 03Leadership MAP application
  • 04Practice tools and a clear next-step recommendation

Ready to interrupt the cycle?

Start with what you are seeing. We will help you determine the right next step.

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Managers working through a leadership exercise in a classroom session

The workshop

One room. One pattern. Named out loud.

The workshop interrupts over-functioning by making the pattern visible to the people running it, then giving them something else to do instead.

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