Enabling Agility in Uncertain Times

12 Oct 2022 - 26 Oct 2022

A highly interactive online programme – Leadership Master Class for Senior Leaders

Three 3-hour workshops spread over three weeks in October with supported application – 12, 19 and 26 October
93% of international senior executive alumni attested CALAgility System helped deal with uncertainty

Testimonies include:

“CAL practices used daily make it irrelevant if there is lock down or not” — Lukasz Walach, Product Leader, Nokia

“This intensive one day really helps me navigate uncertainty with less stress, and helped our managers deal with lockdown uncertainties” — Ian Anderson MD, Synthoma China

“I would highly recommend this for senior managers. It gives genuinely new and very useful ideas for dealing with a VUCA context. During the Shanghai lockdown, we increased our revenue by 30% and took market share from less agile competitors in the chemical logistics market“ — Karl Hudson, Regional Director North Asia, Suttons International

Survey of several hundred senior managers around the world and in China who have applied the approach during lockdowns showed benefits:

Completed in advance (in English or Chinese)

Self-assessment for teams/organisations being led, looking at the principles needed for dynamic and agile self-organisation. Participants will compare their own confidential scores with cohort peers as well as a global database.
Individual self-assessment that shows how agile/adaptive, responsive, effective, balanced and overall enabling the choices of leadership strategy are. Highly customised report will give specific suggestions for further exploration.

Master Class Timings: Each workshop is 1500-1800hrs

Workshop 1: 12 October

Extending leadership paradigms
Navigating uncertainty
Setting up inter-session application

Workshop 2: 19 October

Insights into application
Principles for team agility

Workshop 3: 26 October

Leadership strategies for better results
Enabling follower self-organisation/initiative
How to be less busy/more effective

Inter-workshop application:

Cohort split into Action Learning Groups of 4 – 6, and use of online support with 5 minutes a day mindful reflective practice
Use of CAL’s Impact and Peer Accountability System (IPAS) to support Action Learning Group sharing experience

Participants will receive:

High impact, very interactive online workshops using zoom that will introduce a genuinely new approach (NOT “old wine, new bottle”!). This will cover:

WHY leadership paradigm needs to change based on modern western complexity science – how to lead upwards and sideways not just down in VUCA times with high uncertainty and tendency to micro-manage.
WHAT principles need to be in place, so as to leverage hidden potential that commonly exists in teams and organisations
HOW to get faster and better results in uncertain times for less stress and effort

Materials include:

Signed copy of “Future Leadership” (China only)
Customised and confidential individual report on leadership capability
Customised and confidential report on team/organisation being led
Learning log to capture key action points to take away and try out
Aide memoire of key points
International CPD certificate if needed

After Master Class:

Joining alumni group of senior executives
One-on-one coaching session if needed
Access to articles and further reading
Discount for further CAL workshops

Notes:

In case of cancellation, please kindly note you must email admin@britishchambershanghai.cn before 6 pm, 10 October 2022. It is non-refundable for cancellation request made beyond the above mentioned timeframe.

Nick Obolensky

Founder, Complex Adaptive Leadership Ltd; MD, Agile Plus Leadership Consultants

Nick is Founder and CEO of Complex Adaptive Leadership Ltd (UK) and MD of Agile+ Consultants (China). He belongs to the faculty of CEDEP in France (INSEAD Fontainebleau campus) as a professor of leadership. He links complexity science, blended with ancient Chinese wisdom, for leaders to navigate VUCA times in a practical way. His approach was awarded the EFMD Gold Award for Executive Development beating many leading blue-chip business schools around the world. This approach has been employed by a variety of international MNCs (e.g. Rolls-Royce, Dow Chemical, GE, UBS, IBM, Société Générale, Rio Tinto, Nokia, Ali Baba) as well as public sector organisations (e.g. in UK, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia). He has wide ranging leadership experience including:

Practitioner: British Army Major (youngest at the time) in his late twenties trained in Armour, Intelligence, Special Forces and military Joint Service Mountain Expedition Leader; Development Director/COS of FTSE 100 firm (line responsibility for 12,000 staff, change responsibility for 45,000 staff); CEO of green energy technology start-ups.
Consultant: Executive Strategy Consultant of Ernst & Young; Managing Partner of The Vth Dimension.
Academic: Professor of Leadership Nyenrode (MBA professor of the year twice); visiting leadership professor: LBS, INSEAD, EHL, Duke CE and Thunderbird.
Author: “Complex Adaptive Leadership – Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty” (Gower best seller translated in China as “Future Leadership” 未来领导力), “Leading Complex Projects” (ICCPM); “More for less – How to lead an agile self-organising organisation” (Taylor Francis). and “Practical Business Re-engineering – Tools and Techniques for Achieving Effective Change” (Kogan Page).

Nick holds an MBA from IMD (where he graduated as Valedictorian) and is a qualified Chartered Management Consultant. His other past achievements include Master Scuba Diver, twin engine instrument rated private pilot, Emergency First Responder (paramedic) and qualified mountain guide/expedition leader.

More at: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nickobolensky

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