Course 2: Navigating Increasing Complexity
Duration - 2 Days
Language - English
Level - Advanced
About the Course
Most business transformations occur in the midst of turbulent environmental and organizational volatility and complexity. Navigating Increasing Complexity focuses on the very nature of our working contexts today, arguing that the work we do is more complex than ever, and this complexity demands new approaches. Participants will learn how to recognize, diagnose, and respond appropriately to complex environments and situations in a highly interactive course setting.
This course develops adaptive leaders that can prosper in disruptive times by identifying, thinking, and responding differently. The course focuses on developing an adaptive leader who makes better decisions and leads to superior results.
Participants Will Learn How To:
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Explore how increasing complexity is creating a new context for how we work.
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Recognize how biases and default thinking can influence our responses to complexity.
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Apply new frameworks and approaches to adapt how we see, think, and act in response.
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Create routines and opportunities to incorporate learning in future contexts.
Course Modules
Each of the following modules contains the listed learning topics.
Module1
Welcome & Introduction
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The Advanced Leadership Program Framework.
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Creating a shared perspective on complexity.
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The course learning objectives.
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The course learning journey.
Module 2
Complexity
in Context
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What's driving complexity in your organisation?
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Cynefin Framework.
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Diagnosing situations and making contextual decisions
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Assessing where your work resides.
Module 3
Winning in a
New Game
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Winning means adapting how you play.
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Impacts of failing to recognise / adapt to context.
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Bias and default thinking in decision making.
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Self-Assessment
Module 4
Adapting to a New Context with PSC
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Adapting our approach for context.
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This perfect storm requires a new approach.
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Seeing, thinking and working differently - PSC framework.
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Applying the framework to a complex situation.
Module 5
Perceiving:
Seeing Differently
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What it means to see things differently.
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Reframing the issues.
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Expanding our data sets and data gathering tools.
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Paying attention to the signals.
Module 6
Sensemaking:
Thinking Differently
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What is Sensemaking?
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Looking for patterns & themes in data.
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Generating insights and potential paths forward.
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Considering the transition from insight to action.
Module 7
Co-Acting:
Working Differently
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Reconfiguring what you do.
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Leading with a flexible mindset.
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Selecting the highest leverage experiments.
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Building relationships to enable collaborative, problem solving partnerships.
Module 8
Building a
Co-Learning Culture
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The importance of shared learning.
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Value of pre-action and after action reviews.
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Making small bets and incremental decisions.
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Gathering information about the future.
