A highly interactive training course on

Versatile Performance Management in a VUCA World

Developing Creative and Adaptive Flexible Strategies
for Leadership Result in Fast-Changing and Uncertain World
Coventry Academy -  Versatile Performance Management in a VUCA World
5
Days

Course Schedules

 Dubai
 20-24 Jan 2025
 $5,950
 Dubai
 14-18 Jul 2025
 $5,950
 London
 10-14 Nov 2025
 $5,950

Training course overview

The world is evolving rapidly as we transition through the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With advancements such as AI, virtual work environments, global business sectors, and the influence of Gen Y and Gen Z, leaders and managers face an increasing array of challenges, including technological changes, uncertainties, and business risks. Agile, innovative, and resilient leaders can guide their teams through these challenges more effectively.

This 5-day training course helps leaders manage VUCA—Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity—by enhancing their flexibility. The course explores how to anticipate, avoid, protect against, endure, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the impacts of change or loss in a VUCA environment.

This Coventry Academy training course will feature:

  • Understanding Adaptive Performance Management: What it is, why it’s important, and how leaders can utilize and develop it.
  • Key Aspects of Dynamic Leadership: Including resilience and the power of emotional intelligence in navigating VUCA.
  • Identifying and Transforming Volatility: Recognizing instability in business and steering it towards a positive vision.
  • Managing Ambiguity and Driving Forces: Understanding ambiguity and driving change within the business.
  • Leading Through VUCA: The critical principles and processes to guide your team, groups, and organization.
  • Building Resilience: Using "Black Swan" thinking and planning strategies to prepare for unexpected events.

What are the goals?

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Know the guidelines for achieving increased performance in a VUCA environment
  • Identify and examine indicators that assess an organization's strength in the World today
  • Know how can active individuals in strong organizations improve the reliability of operations using versatile performance management and agility?
  • Minimize and prevent the threats and risks: Management of weaknesses, accidental failures, obstacles, resistance, and setbacks
  • Implement versatile and flexible leadership concepts and innovative solutions to achieve business stability
  • Gain a broader knowledge base on organizational strength and leadership using versatile performance management and balance VUCA

Who is this training course for?

The high-level nature of this training will be valuable to those in administration and group authority. If you are responsible for deciding for or reacting to change and emergencies. This Coventry Academy training course is suitable therefore to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Directors and executives
  • Senior Managers
  • Middle Managers
  • Identified talent, high potentials, and future leaders in the business

How will this training course be presented?

This Coventry Academy training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques, to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This training event use an assortment of demonstrated learning procedures to guarantee effective and enjoyable learning.

Course Outline

 Day One: The VUCA Leader in the Modern World – an Introduction
  • Defining VUCA in the modern world: The "new standard" for leadership
  • Understanding leadership with the background of VUCA
  • Traditional leadership styles versus VUCA leadership model
  • Emotional-intelligence and using wisdom to build a confident VUCA leader
  • How to prioritize change: Basic principles needed for VUCA
  • Manage expectations: Gen Y and Gen Z and their view of VUCA
Day Two: VUCA – From a Change of Perspective to a Performance Framework using Communication
  • What Versatile performance management Is, why it’s important for leadership with VUCA
  • The background behind and using the principles of resilience and inner strength
  • Understanding in the workplace and reacting to the changes all around leadership
  • Ensure VUCA effective leadership in times of change by personal example
  • Build communication and develop trust to balance the VUCA situation
  • Vision transformation – an essential principle to use daily and how to bring people together with a strong vision
Day Three: VUCA – From Uncertainty to Risk Management in a VUCA world
  • Learn the advanced points and principles of communication to understand the shift in attitude, and using coaching and mentoring to combat uncertainty and control it
  • Managing the Unpredictable Using Scenario Planning
  • Building More Flexible Teams and Adaptive Organisations
  • Risk Communication in high risk or fast-changing and uncertain environments and finding Purpose, Setting Goals, Creating Plans
  • Risk and reward: Managing Vulnerabilities, Random Setbacks, Obstacles, Resistance, and Opposition
  • The bounce back principle: Strategy and Positioning, Strengths, Alliances, Supporters, and Multipliers
Day Four: VUCA – From Complexity to Clarity – Making Sense of an Uncertain World with Better thinking
  • Why is it so complicated? How the last 10 years have changed everything
  • Factors affecting uncertainty, the psychology of VUCA
  • Different ways to use the RACI model to define roles and responsibilities
  • How to think creatively to get an explanation, improve results and solve problems
  • Problem-solving and decision-making techniques to help be more flexible and versatile
  • How to give your people an explanation to difficult questions
Day Five: VUCA – From Ambiguity to Agility Using the Ideas from the Training
  • Inner Strength: The Psychology of Versatile performance management and Motivation
  • The Versatile performance management Toolkit: Resourcefulness and Inner Strength we all have
  • Proven Tools and Techniques to Identify and Manage Personal Risks and Opportunities
  • Identifying and Overcoming Obstacles and Resistance (yours and others)
  • Use AGILE & Kaizen in guidance and management as a core model
  • Agile team development: strengthening your performance and how to build organizational agility: Agile leadership case studies

The certificate

  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

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