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"Navigating uncertainty with more resilience, and less stress for better results"



Three hour workshops spread over three weeks in August with supported application


93% of international senior executive alumni attested CAL Agility System helped deal with Covid uncertainties


"CAL practices used daily make it irrelevant if there is lock down or not" Lukasz Walach, Product Leader, Nokia


Testimonies include:


"This intensive one day really helps me navigate uncertainty with less stress, and helped our managers deal with lockdown uncertainties" Ian Anderson MD Synthoma China


"I would highly recommend this for senior managers. It gives genuinely new and very useful ideas for dealing with a VUCA context. During the lockdown we increased our revenue by 30% and took market share from less agile competitors in the chemical logistics market" Karl Hudson, Regional Director North Asia, Suttons International


A new and international award-winning system to organisational leadership that has demonstrably helped leaders around the world and in China to deal with current uncertainties.

Session Outline

Survey of several hundred senior managers

around the world and in China who have applied

the approach during lockdowns showed benefits:

Completed in advance:

  • Self- assessment for teams/organization being led, looking at the principles needed for dynamic and agile self-organization. Participants will compare their own confidential scores with cohort peers as well as a global data base.
  • Individual self-assessment that shows how agile/adaptive, responsive, effective, balanced and overall enabling the choices of leadership strategy are (available in Chinese and English). Highly customized report will give specific suggestions for further exploration. Participants will be able to compare their own confidential score with cohort peers as well as a global normative data base.

Participants will be able to compare their own confidential score with cohort peers as well as a global normative data base.


Participants will receive:

  • A high impact interactive experiential workshop that will introduce a genuinely new approach (NOT "old wine, new bottle"!). This will cover:
  1. WHY leadership paradigm needs to change based on modern western complexity science - how to lead upwards and sideways not just down in VUCA times with high uncertainty and tendency to micro-manage.
  2. WHAT principles need to be in place, so as to leverage hidden potential that commonly exists in teams and organizations
  3. HOW to get faster and better results in uncertain times for less stress

Materials include:


  1. Signed copy of "Future Leadership" (China only)
  2. Customised and confidential individual report on leadership capability
  3. Customised and confidential report on team/organisation being led
  4. Learning log to capture key action points to take away and try out
  5. Aide memoire of key points
  6. International CPD certificate if needed
  7. Use of online IPAS system to share learning in small groups

After Master Class:


  1. Joining alumni group of senior executives
  2. One-on-one coaching session if needed
  3. Access to articles and further reading
  4. Discount for further CAL workshops

Agenda

Master Class Timings:


Each workshop is 15:00-18:00hrs


Workshop 1: 24 August


Extending leadership paradigms


Setting up inter-session application


Workshop 2: 31 August


Understanding complexity


Principles for team agility


Workshop 3: 7 September


Leadership strategies


Enabling follower self-organization

Inter-workshop application:


Cohort split into Action Learning Groups of 4 – 6, and use of online support and 5 minutes a day mindful reflective practice.


Use of CAL's Impact and Peer Accountability System (IPAS) to support Action Learning Group sharing their experience.

Speakers

  • Nick Obolensky (CEO of Complex Adaptive Leadership Ltd)

    Nick Obolensky

    CEO of Complex Adaptive Leadership Ltd

    Nick Obolensky, an acclaimed international leadership expert with deep experience as practitioner (including youngest Major in the British Army and FTSE 100 director with line leadership of 12,000 staff), academic (incl. professor at INSEAD, CEDEP, LBS), consultant, (Executive Strategy Consultant at Ernst & Young), coach and author of best-selling books including “Complex Adaptive Leadership: Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty” (translated into Chinese as 未来领导力 “Future Leadership”).

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Companies which have benefited from The CALAGility System approach in the past:

Tickets

A prepayment is required for all full-day training sessions. 

Member Ticket
Member Price RMB 5,500
Member & Member Company Employee Ticket
Standard Price RMB 5,500
Non-Member Ticket
Standard Price RMB 6,500

Registration

  • All registrations shall be made online before the session. Payment also shall be made before the session.
  • For full-day sessions, AmCham Shanghai members are eligible to attend at "Member Rate"; Employees who work at AmCham Shanghai member companies are eligible to attend at "Employee Rate"; Non-members are eligible to attend at "Non-Member Rate".
Cancellation Policy
  • Cancellation: If you need to cancel your registration for a full-day session, please notify Ray Cheng at (86 21) 6169 3015 or email ray.cheng@amcham-shanghai.org at least two weeks prior to the session for a full refund. Cancellation made within two weeks before the session will not be refundable.

Venue

Online

Shanghai, China

If you have any questions please contact Ray Cheng

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