Leading with the Long View
This is a retreat for leaders to consider both organisational and personal development in the context of a VUCA world: volatile, uncertain complex and ambiguous.
How might we chart a pathway of long term vision and resilience?
This Neos Delta five-day retreat looks at what leadership may look like, taking into account time, uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity. A mixture of conversations, group and individual work, case studies, readings and guests speakers, this programme gives you or you and your team a chance to reflect, discuss, take stock, reformulate your intent, strategies and impact you want to have on your ecosystem.
It is time to move forward with courage, boldness and a new openness. Take a long-term view of the future in order to cope with the VUCA environment of today and most definitely, that of tomorrow.
To survive, a long view is one of your most important options.
Consider these two scenarios.
Paris November 1, 2015
It is three days before the Paris agreement was signed by 196 Parties at UN Climate Change Conference (COP 21).
Florence, a passionate 24-year-old from London was deeply concerned about the environment. She has spent time in Fiji, where she witnessed firsthand the effects of climate change. She has travelled widely, and even in the remotest parts of the world, there was plastic, an increasing sea of plastic. Market capitalism ‘groomed to consume’, her favourite byline, has driven her to activism. She is part of a much larger movement.
So here she is at the 2015 COP21 climate summit in Paris. Florence is driven by a sense of urgency, joining thousands of other young people from around the world, gathering to demand real, actionable commitments from world leaders. It is so obvious what needs to be done.
Paris. June 12th 1941
The aroma of freshly baked croissants mixes with the scent of coffee as you sit at a quaint Parisian café. The chatter of patrons is subdued or maybe that is your imagination? The date is June 12, and the once lively streets now feel tense, a strange undercurrent hanging in the air. The German invasion of France continues unchecked. Unknown to you, the Germans will arrive triumphantly in two days’ time.
Many of your friends have left, fearful of the rumours about what has happened to Jews in Poland and in Germany itself. Everything feels fragile, the world you’ve built is teetering on the edge of an abyss. It’s all so uncertain. What to do? You have a company, with two thousand employees, three children and your family have been here for five generations. You are Jewish.
Time, uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity
Two very different views of uncertainty, requiring leadership with different time scales to assess risk.
Purpose
This Neos Delta five-day retreat looks at what leadership may look like, taking into account time, uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity.
The Big Idea
A mixture of conversations, group and individual work, case studies, readings and guests speakers, this programme gives you or you and your team a chance to reflect, discuss, take stock, reformulate your intent, strategies and impact you want to have on your ecosystem.
Is This You?
For leaders concerned with organisation renewal, long term resilience and the future.
Do you want to build capability, depth and understanding of your Team to transition to a new theme of complexity to deal with the challenging landscape?
Do you want to build for the future, to beat Fortune 500 company survival statistics?
Are you a CEO or C-suite who had done a Career Path Appreciation or MCPA ?
A board chair, wanting to ensure viability, resilience and direction?
Facilitators
Andrew Olivier
Chin Siong Seah
Lynette Thorstensen
