Leading in the real world
Complexity, team leadership, context and cases.
Half a day exploring leadership in real conditions: complexity, team and shared leadership, adapting to context and lessons from six real leaders.
- Level
- Explore
- Learning time
- 5 hours
- Where
- Leadership
- Price
- £129
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Leaders facing complex situations and leading teams across settings
Overview
Leadership is tested in real conditions: uncertainty, teams, context and consequence. This programme starts with complexity, using VUCA, wicked problems, Cynefin, Heifetz's adaptive challenges, sensemaking and the pre-mortem. It moves to collective and team leadership through Tuckman, Lencioni, shared leadership, followership, conflict modes and the GROW model, then explores how leadership flexes across sector, national culture, organisational life stage and crisis. A compendium of six real leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Yunus and Paul Polman, brings the frameworks together through four questions: diagnose, decide, distribute and sustain.
Aims
This programme aims to build practical leadership judgement for messy, real situations, helping leaders read complexity, share leadership with their teams and adapt to context, while holding steady on the values and commitments that should not change from one setting to the next.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Diagnose the nature of a situation using Cynefin, the Stacey Matrix and the adaptive and technical distinction, and decide how to act under uncertainty.
- Apply team development, shared leadership, conflict modes and coaching conversations to build trust and distribute decisions within your team.
- Assess how sector, culture and circumstance shape a leadership situation, and use four questions to choose the frameworks that fit real cases.
What you'll develop
Across this Explore, you will develop the ability to:
- Diagnose whether a situation is clear, complicated, complex or chaotic using VUCA, Cynefin, the Stacey Matrix and the distinction between tame and wicked problems.
- Distinguish technical problems from adaptive challenges and use sensemaking, the OODA loop and the pre-mortem to decide and act under uncertainty.
- Identify a team's developmental stage and diagnose its dysfunctions from the foundation of trust upward, using Tuckman, Katzenbach and Smith, and Lencioni.
- Apply shared leadership, followership and situational delegation to decide which decisions, not just tasks, to give away to your team.
- Compare what private, public and social sector organisations optimise for and explain how that changes the way good leadership is expressed.
- Use the four questions of diagnose, decide, distribute and sustain to read a real leadership situation, including your own.
Built from 4 parts.
5 hours of learning.
- 01When the way ahead is unclearLeading through complexity and uncertaintyBitesize1 module
- 02Stronger togetherCollective, distributed and team leadershipBitesize1 module
- 03One size never fits allLeadership in context: sector and situationBitesize1 module
- 04Lessons from the real worldLeadership case studies and practiceBitesize1 module
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereExplore, 5 hours, £129
- The whole topicImmerse, Leading well, 9 hours 30 minutes, £249. Already own the Explore? You pay £120.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms