Navigating uncertainty for better results

24 Aug 2022 15:00 - 7 Sep 2022 18:00

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

Three 3-hour workshops spread over three weeks with supported application – 24 Aug, 31 Aug, 7 Sep.
93% of international senior executive alumni attested CALAgility System helped deal with COVID uncertainties.
A new and international award-winning system to organisational leadership that has demonstrably helped leaders around the world and in China to deal with current uncertainties.

Testimonies include:

“CAL practices used daily make it irrelevant if there is lockdown 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 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:

Self-assessment for teams/organisation 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 (available in Chinese and English). Highly customised report will give specific suggestions for further exploration.

Master Class Timings: Each workshop is 1500-1800hrs

Workshop 1: Wednesday, 24 August

Extending leadership paradigms
Setting up inter-session application

Workshop 2: Wednesday, 31 August

Understanding complexity
Principles for team agility

Workshop 3: Wednesday, 7 September

Leadership strategies
Enabling follower self-organisation

Inter-workshop application:

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

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
- Use of online IPAS system to share learning in small groups

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, 22 August 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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