Leadership and Management
Leading through VUCA
Overview:
Introduction:
The Leading through VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity & Ambiguity) training program equips participants with strategies and skills to navigate dynamic and challenging environments effectively. Through a focused curriculum, participants learn to embrace ambiguity, leverage uncertainty, and lead with resilience in volatile and complex situations.
Program Objectives:
At the end of this program, the participants will be able to:
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Apply techniques to lead, motivate and inspire individuals to their full potential.
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Demonstrate the best leadership principles.
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Develop as an effective and efficient leader in the modern world.
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Understand the impact of VUCA on leading styles in today’s dynamic business.
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Critically analyze the VUCA principle.
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Apply powerful skills and techniques to lead through VUCA.
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Increase self-awareness of your leadership ability in today’s changing world.
Targeted Audience:
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Directors.
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Senior Managers.
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Middle Managers.
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Identified talent, high potential and future leaders in the business.
Program Outlines:
Unit 1:
VUCA: Leadership in the Modern World:
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Defining VUCA in the modern world: the “New Norm”.
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Understanding leadership.
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Traditional leadership styles vs. VUCA leadership.
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Emotional intelligence and the self-aware VUCA leader.
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Leading through change: Key principles needed for VUCA.
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Managing expectations: Gen Y and Gen Z.
Unit 2:
VUCA: From Volatility to Vision:
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Defining ‘Volatility’ in the VUCA framework.
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Impact of volatility on the team and organization.
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Providing effective leadership in times of volatility.
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Building rapport and developing trust.
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Turning volatility to vision.
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Leading people to the powerful vision.
Unit 3:
VUCA: From Uncertainty to Understanding:
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Factors affecting uncertainty.
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Understand your team and organization dynamics.
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Key communication principles to gain understanding.
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Coaching and mentoring to combat and control uncertainty.
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Leading understanding in the workplace.
Unit 4:
VUCA: From Complexity to Clarity:
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Why so complex?
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Check and clarify: The keys to gaining clarity.
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Using RACI to define roles and responsibilities.
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Creative thinking to gain clarity.
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Problem-solving and decision-making methods to aid clarity.
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Communicating clarity to your people.
Unit 5:
VUCA: From Ambiguity to Agility:
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Defining ambiguity vs. agility in VUCA.
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Using AGILE & Kaizen to lead and manage.
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Developing an agile team: Empowerment.
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Building organization agility: The agile leader.
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Summary.
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Next steps.