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Leading in a Complex World

How do we operate from our leadership edge and lead more adaptively within complex human systems? This program will empower leaders to drive sustainable change in their organisations.

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Overview

To quote Marshall Goldsmith, “What got you here, won’t get you there” and therefore we need to step beyond our preference to lead through our own expertise, to avoid trying to fix complex problems with simple solutions.

This program draws on global thought leadership in fields such as Adaptive Leadership, Adult Development, and Systems Thinking, supporting leaders in making purposeful progress on the daunting systemic challenges of the uncertain, complex, and ambiguous work environment we live in.

Participants will begin to understand the nature of the gaps between where things are today and what they and others in their organisation aspire towards. They will develop skills to diagnose the nature of these gaps and engage others in a trustworthy effort to make progress on important challenges. The program will also teach participants how to have generative conversations by asking different questions, considering multiple perspectives, and starting to see the system.

Content

The two-day program includes completing the Leadership Maturity Profile and participating in a 1:1 debrief with a leadership coach to develop a clear developmental action plan.

The Leadership Maturity Profile is a powerful tool in the assessment and development of leadership capacity. Many forward thinking and leading edge organisations are using the Leadership Maturity Profile in their ongoing development of leaders.

The LMP is based on the Leadership Maturity Framework (LMF), an integral perspective of human development concerned with how we make meaning and sense of reality, which, in turn, influences how we think, feel, and behave. It analyses and predicts based on the nine stages of meaning-making defined by the LMF through which individuals and groups pass as they develop and mature. Each successive stage reflects a higher level of complexity of thought and action as individuals and groups become more effective and insightful.

Learning Outcomes

  • Strengthening your ability to dance on the edge of your leadership authority including risking disappointing others at a rate they can absorb.
  • Developing an understanding of and ability to address technical challenges with authority and expertise and adaptive challenges through adaptive and collaborative leadership. 
  • Celebrating difference and divergence by helping others navigate change whilst being the change yourself.
  • To explore your leadership through the lens of adult development to increase your capacity to navigate disruption and find opportunity in the midst of chaos.

About the Facilitator
Jenny Hoffman

As a leadership development practitioner and executive leadership coach, Jenny Hoffman has been introducing individuals and organisations to design thinking for over 10 years. She is a certified facilitator of ExperienceInnovation and ExperienceChange workshops developed by ExperiencePoint and IDEO and was one of the first in Western Australia to be trained in this prestigious set of workshops that combine practical skills with learning the design mindsets essential to a deeper understanding of design thinking and leading change. She focuses on individual and collective leadership development and cultural transformation with a breadth of experience that includes the public sector, private and not-for-profit clients.

As a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School’s program on the “Art and Practice of Leadership Development”, she designs and delivers customised and evidence-based leadership development programs drawing upon adaptive leadership and leadership maturity approaches and drawing upon the latest in leader development thinking. Jenny is a faculty member of UWA Business School where she teaches several leadership units included in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program.

 

Optional/Additional Coaching Package:

Fees:

3 x 1 hour

$1,200  Non Member
$1,100 Corporate / Professional Member

 

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