Leading in Complexity
Part 1
Asynchronous Online Module: Leadership Challenges in a White-Water World (Participants will need to engage 1-2 hours with the module prior to Day 1.)
Part 2
Day 1
- Understanding Complexity I
- The White-Water World
- Black Swans: Living in an Unpredictable World
- Exercise: What’s YOUR Black Swan?
- Understanding Complexity II
- From Complicated to Complex: The Cynefin Framework
- Exercise: Mapping Black Swans
- Simple-Complicated-Complex
- Small Group Breakout: Identifying Simple, Complicated, and Complex Problems
- Working in Complexity I
- Applying the Cynefin Framework
- The Role of Constraints in managing in Complexity
- Working in Complexity I
- The Role of Constraints in Managing in Complexity
- Small Group Breakout: Case Application
- Implications for Leadership
- Reflection on the Day (optional; participants may stay for an exploration of open questions)
Day 2
- Leading in Complexity I: Context-Awareness
- Two Critical Meta-Skills: Developing Self Awareness & Context Awareness
- The Role of Inquiry
- HIV in Brazil: Case Discussion and Exercise
- Asking Divergent and Provocative Questions
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Assuming Abundance
- Leading in Complexity II: Context-Awareness
- Identifying Weak Signals
- Small Group Breakout: Case Application
- Debrief
- Leading in Complexity III: Self-Awareness
- Developing Complexity Fitness
- Staying present in increasing complexity
- Cultivating the inner complexity to adapt, decouple from the environment and lead into action
- Exercise: Somatic noticing and Grounding in Present
- Leading in Complexity IV
- Small Group Breakout: Exploring Case ‘Yeah, buts’
- Wrap-Up & Debrief
- Reflection on the Day (optional; participants may stay for an exploration of open questions)