Foundation Five
Welcome to the KAI Foundation Five Podcast Series!
This is our five part introduction to building better teams and great leaders with the Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory.
KAI is the world’s foremost measure for problem solving style. It’s used widely to create cohesive and productive teams and effective leaders. It’s been in use for around 40 years and is supported by a large body of academic research from around the world.
In these five podcasts we want to provide you with an understanding of why KAI is so effective, so powerful and indeed life changing for so many teams and team leaders.
Foundation Five – Episode 1 -‘From Cave Dwellers to Cosmonaut – A Manual for the Brain’
This first episode is an introduction to KAI, what it is, what it’s all about and why it works. Dr Curt Friedel and Dr Iwan Jenkins, both very experienced KAI Practitioners, explain how KAI theory will allow you to be a better problem solving leader, for yourself and for others.
Foundation Five – Episode 2 -‘Big Problems need Better Teams’
In this episode we discuss problem solving style, and why for teams to be effective we need diversity in that style. We also look at how KAI measures that diversity, how we know it works, and the rigour that has gone into developing KAI.
Foundation Five – Episode 3 -‘Welcome to the Land of the Big Idea – The Creative Innovators’
In this episode we look specifically at the role and effectiveness of leaders and team members on the more innovative end of the KAI inventory; how they approach order and structure; and why it’s vital they understand and appreciate the creative adaptors in their teams.
Foundation Five – Episode 4 -‘Welcome to the Land of Getting Things Done – The Creative Adaptors’
In this episode we look specifically at the role and effectiveness of leaders and team members on the more adaptive end of the KAI inventory, and how vital – but often unrecognised – they are in achieving the goals of teams and organisations.
Foundation Five – Episode 5 -‘Leading Diverse Teams in Uncertain Times’
This fifth part is all about diversity in problem solving styles – the Problem B in Kirton’s original thesis, which can so often derail teams as colleagues grapple with one another instead of the project that they’re supposed to be addressing.