ORGANISATIONS
Workshops, training and consulting in strategic foresight tools and VUCA skills for leaders
Organisations are easier to plan for and lead, in steady, predictable, simple and clear environments. Unfortunately that’s not the world we live in. It’s becoming more and more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA). What does an organisation need to do to operate in a VUCA environment and how does leadership look different?
Consulting
Diagnosis and advice for your organisation using strategic foresight tools to imagine new futures and prepare for uncertainty.
Training
Tailored training programs, individual and group coaching for learning how to apply strategic foresight tools and VUCA skills
Workshops
Workshop facilitation and key note speeches on emerging trends, futures tools and alternative futures
Looking for a program that helps to accelerate the development of Women in STEM in your organisation? VUCA skills, Strategic foresight and working through the challenges of being a woman in STEM. We have blended learning courses and service, ready to adapt to your needs such as:
- The “Her Toolbox” App
- 6 week online learning programs with weekly online group coaching
- Ongoing monthly online group coaching
- Other online courses on a variety of topics for learning at own pace
- Learn from anywhere in the world
You need to steer in a chaotic world. Important strategic decisions must be taken, and sometimes they need to be taken upon a future you can’t possibly predict. This is where strategic foresight tools come into play.
Deep and long lasting change under these conditions requires that you have a framework to learn about the future and have the organisational metrics, systems, thinking and culture in place that is able to respond to what you learn. Without these elements in place, we simply download reactions to our problems from the same thinking that created them.
Furthermore, you need tools such as Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), the futures triangle, futures landscapes and more to map, anticipate, time, deepen, create alternatives and transform the future.
The future is what you change today. Find out how your organisation can use the future as an asset with Strategic Foresight tools.
Not only does your organisation need a culture and structures that are agile and learning oriented to deal with uncertainty, but you also need leaders that have the complexity of mind to respond to the ‘uncertainty-demands’ of their role.
A study by Lectica found that most managers perform well below the recommended benchmarks for VUCA skills for their roles, with CEOs achieving an average of less than 60% of the necessary “thinking complexity”. The average complexity level of a CEO is equal to that of a senior manager. That is, 2 levels below where they need to be.
The good news is that this complexity gap can be bridged through coaching and learning tools such as the Lectica Leadership Decision Making Assessment (LDMA), which not only assesses the level of the leader but also provides 12 months worth of development activities that, when practiced, on average doubles the amount of growth that normally takes place in an educational program.
Lectical complexity levels also predict behavioural change in that the direct reports and peers of leaders who increase the scores, have reported improvement in those leaders behaviours compared to leaders whose scores did not improve.
Ask us for a demo of the LDMA so that you can prepare your leaders with transformative leadership skills for an uncertain world.
