Leading the Cyborg
Leading in a modern digital organization
Price
In-house*
Duration
2 Half-days (Total 10 hours)
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Purpose and Background
In today’s fast-changing business environment, leaders must navigate a landscape of competing priorities, shifting market demands, and high organizational complexity. Traditional leadership models fall short in addressing the paradoxes inherent in modern organizations leaving leaders without the tools to manage the tensions of stability and adaptability, control and autonomy and so on.
Leading the Cyborg is a two-part interactive training designed to help leaders embrace these contradictions and lead with confidence in evolving, complex organizations. Drawing from systems thinking, organizational science, and real-world case studies, this training provides a structured yet flexible approach to leadership.
The program equips leaders with tools to recognize and balance organizational tensions, foster resilience, and effect meaningful change. By the end of the course, managers will have a deeper understanding of how to lead effectively, enhance their impact, and drive innovation while addressing apparent paradoxes and navigating organizational tensions.
What you will learn
This highly interactive training blends hands-on exercises, real-world case studies and systemic peer consultation to help leaders navigate conflicting demands and complexity, with confidence.
Expect engaging discussions, practical tools, and reflective sessions that equip you to manage paradoxes, foster adaptability, and drive meaningful change in your organization. You'll leave with actionable insights to lead more effectively in dynamic environments.
We will cover
· Paradoxical Leadership Expectations: Understanding the conflicting demands on leaders and how to navigate them effectively.
· Organizational Tensions and Characteristics: Identifying the dualities within organizations and managing them for sustainable success.
· Complex Living Systems: Exploring how organizations function as living systems and how leaders can guide change holistically.
· Systemic Thinking in Leadership: Leveraging systemic loops and dependency diagrams to diagnose and address challenges.
· Creating Impactful Change: A practical systemic method (peer case consultation) to diagnose and address a real-world challenge.
Training Details and Agenda
In two five-hour sessions, with a mix of expert insights, peer learning, reflection and practice with actionable tools, this training equips leaders to thrive in uncertain and dynamic environments.
Participants leave with a structured approach to leadership, greater clarity in decision-making, and a toolkit for fostering resilience and adaptability within their teams.
1. Module 1: Focuses on leadership paradoxes, organizational tensions, and duality case studies, concluding with a small assignment.
2. Module 2: Covers systemic thinking, impactful change strategies, and incorporates a peer case review of a real-world example brought by participants.
