Overview: A fast-paced simulation, uniquely engaging action learning approach for leadership development. In the simulation, participants actively explore and discover what it takes to build effective, agile and innovative organizations in today's rapidly changing marketplace.
Participants take on one of seven functional roles in a start up division launched by a company in rapid decline. Over the course of several simulated months, each functional area works to meet its own goals, while the organization attempts to field and utilize information from a relentless external environment.
Periodically, there are facilitated discussions, performance analysis, and application-focused work that anchors the learning into real world circumstances. These discussions focus on business results (focus, alignment, accountability), organizational agility (context, collaboration, trust), and innovation (renewal, learning, creativity).
» Reexamine their own leadership role and learn ways to enable leadership to emerge throughout a work group and/or an organization.
Challenge 'the myth of heroic leadership' and its limitations on enabling organizational performance and agility
Examine leadership-related thinking, assumptions and style in relation to what's required to enable dynamic, 'living' systems to perform to their capability
Learn how to promote, enable and reinforce individual accountability, collaboration and system-wide flexibility
» Improve, in themselves and in others, the ability to effectively work across individual, group and/or organizational boundaries.
Explore the limitations of 'seeing' a system from a limited perspective, point of view, functional orientation, hierarchical viewpoint, etc.
Strategies and techniques that support 'boundary busting'
Approaches for thinking and acting more strategically 'at all levels'
» Apply an understanding of organizations as dynamic, living systems (a 'systems perspective') and how to maximize flexibility, innovation and performance.
Understand the benefits of balancing working as an 'open' work system with the importance of clear purpose, boundaries and identity'
Improving communication and information flow in all directions
How to create an environment that enables and supports the risk taking, initiative and innovative thinking needed to survive in a rapidly changing business world
Importance of a focus on both 'bottom line' performanceandinnovation, as a norm as opposed to a contradiction
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