Leadership for Complex Times is a unique two-day workshop brought to you by The New Zealand Leadership Institute in collaboration with The University of Auckland Business School Short Courses.

What do you need to do to sustain and excel in the face of growing complexity within your organisation or community?

The nature of the complex environment we are now experiencing is characterised by increasingly rapid and unplanned change, turbulent environments and a pervasive uncertainty.

The Leadership for Complex Times workshop addresses this need for a radically different kind of leadership. A leadership style which is sensitive to dynamic changes and works effectively with others to recognise how current thinking shapes and limits what is possible. Aas a result of this programme, leaders will be better able to adapt and respond where the strategic plan cannot.

We strongly differentiate leadership from management and expertise, and believe individuals need the ability to see and move beyond their own immediate span of comfort and influence. In order to do so they must work constructively with doubt, courage and curiosity in the face of competing demands and information.

‘Certainty is insensitive to change....doubt restores that sensitivity' (Weick, 2009)

Cutting edge research from The New Zealand Leadership Institute will be at your finger tips throughout this workshop. This highly relevant research has evolved from the experiences and insights of New Zealand leaders and organisations.

Topics Covered

This two-day workshop blends the latest research, ‘real-life' examples and practitioner experience so you can develop an in-depth understanding of the leadership thinking and action that can provide new awareness and momentum in an ever changing context.

This workshop will:

• Explore the distinction between leadership and management
• Disrupt and reframe organisational constructs such as decision making, change management, strategic thinking and organisational engagement. 
• Construct alternative ways of making sense of organisational boundaries and dynamics. 
• Stimulate discussion and consideration of your own business using recent New Zealand Leadership Institute research on the dynamics of doubt, belief and confidence and the best of international thinking about leadership in complexity.
   

Who should attend

This workshop is for those in leadership who want to:

• Understand the contemporary environment and its challenges in more scope and depth.
• Develop a resilient organisational culture where people are capable and adaptive when faced with ambiguity, rapid change or difficult decisions.
• Build new perspectives from which to both reflect and act with courage and ingenuity.
  

This is a highly interactive workshop where the ideas presented are actively worked with in relation to your specific experiences and contexts. Attending this workshop with your colleagues enables the consideration and active translation of these ideas into your workplace all the more effective.

Get a 20% discount when you book a cluster of three or more people from within your organisation into this workshop.

Outcomes

‘To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation' (Bertrand Russell)

 Leadership for Complex Times will:

• Expose you to real world case studies which explore the choices, decisions and actions that leadership in complex times needs to grapple with.
• Extend your repertoire of leadership practices available to make sense of complexity and uncertainty.
• Develop your capability to work adaptively ‘beyond the plan'.
• Build your confidence to take leadership action in rapidly changing environments. 
• Provide you with new insights into the leadership capacity and gaps within your own organisation.
• Enable you to work effectively and collectively with others who hold diverse perspectives.

Dates

No workshops scheduled at this time, please register your interest to be kept informed of any updates in regards to workshop. 

Price

$1,995 + GST per person

Special offer  

Get a 20% discount when you book a cluster of three or more people from within your organisation into this workshop (limitations on maximum numbers from any one organisation may apply). 

Location

Owen G Glenn Building, University of Auckland Business School

12 Grafton Rd, Auckland City

Register your interest 

Please do not hesitate to contact the Institute team with any queries regarding the workshop content.