Why Choose this Training Course?
Many leaders today grapple with overwhelming responsibilities, feeling the pressure from emails, meetings, and expectations that seem insurmountable. They face escalating demands from various fronts, grappling with challenges that continue to expand in complexity. While they may not be familiar with the term VUCA, they are all too familiar with its effects. Leading in today's VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) world presents the greatest challenge humanity has ever encountered. This Adaptive Leadership for VUCA Challenges training course introduces a fresh approach to management and leadership, ensuring positive outcomes in evolving circumstances. In the VUCA landscape, leaders must forge their path, focusing on empathetic behaviors and addressing people's needs. The lessons learned from experiences like COVID-19 underscore the importance of meaning and purpose in business activities.
Key features of this COPEX training course include:
- Building organizational resilience to navigate volatile challenges
- Equipping adaptive leaders to take calculated risks and experiment in uncertainty
- Fostering a commitment to lifelong learning to stay ahead of complex developments
- Cultivating divergent and convergent thinking to navigate ambiguity
- Encouraging team innovation to solve persistent challenges with fresh solutions.
What are the Goals?
By attending this COPEX training course, delegates will be able to:
- Make individuals and team members feel valued and respected
- Effectively manage themselves and develop quality relationships
- Develop the members of their team, helping them to recognize their true potential
- Earn the respect of others by practicing what they preach
- Apply the actions and qualities of effective adaptive leaders
Who is this Training Course for?
This COPEX training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Managers and Leaders implementing change processes
- Department Heads involved in complex change
- Strategic decision makers
- Team Leaders faced with complex change implementation
- Leaders looking for sustainability in a VUCA world
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This COPEX training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes experiential group activities, individual exercises, mini-case studies and syndicate discussions. Formal inputs are used to introduce underpinning theory. A key part of the learning process is sharing the differing experiences participants bring, as well as experimenting with novel – and sometimes challenging – techniques.
Course Outline
Day One: People – The Key to Business Activities
- Earn their respect
- Help them to recognize their true potential
- Making individuals feel valued and respected
- Factors in Team Development
- Dealing with Conflict in Teams
- Giving Feedback for Improved Performance
Day Two: Build Resilience to Volatile Challenges
- Change the Culture
- Adapt to new technology
- Developing the Right Attitude
- Characteristics of Adaptive Leadership
- Openness to New Ideas
- Creating a Creative Climate
Day Three: Risk and Experimentation in an Uncertain World
- Uncertainty - Many facts may not be known
- Complexity - You must consider many interrelated factors
- High-risk consequences - The impact of the decision may be significant
- Divergent and diverse thinking
- Interpersonal issues - It can be difficult to predict how other people will react
- Tools and Techniques in Decision Making
Day Four: Identifying Future Complexities
- Goal setting and prioritization
- Deliberate vs. experimental approaches
- Formalizing trial and error methods for improvement and innovation
- Planning for implementation
- Organizing for implementation
- Test phases and pilot projects
Day Five: Managing Change in an Ambiguous World
- Creating a vision to change
- Managing the principles of change
- Dealing with resistance
- Managing the four states & reactions to change
- Tools & techniques to assist the change process
- Empowering people to act
The Certificate
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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Duration:5 days
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Format:Classroom
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Language: English
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Certificate:Yes
