Why this module matters

  • Shows why uncertainty triggers unhelpful habits

    Understand why pressure pushes us toward seeking certainty, control, and quick fixes, even when they don’t help.

  • Helps you tell technical and adaptive challenges apart

    Learn to spot common leadership mindtraps and recognise when a problem calls for a different kind of response.

  • Builds your own self-awareness in complexity

    Reflect on your own assumptions and patterns, and identify an adaptive challenge that’s genuinely yours.

Learning outcomes

A detailed breakdown of the main learning outcomes for this module

  • Understand the complexity paradox and what is needed to face complexity with more spaciousness

  • Identify and critically reflect on an adaptive challenge of your own

  • Practise some foundational self-reflection habits

Practise with hands-on exercises

In this exercise kit, you will reflect on your own default responses to complexity and choose one small nudge to carry into your work, then invite your team to share what they notice about your strengths and stretching edges, so you can see your own patterns more clearly than you could alone.

Instructor(s)

Marco Valente

Complexity expert

Marco helps leaders and teams, at the highest organizational levels, find their way forward in complex, messy challenges. Through a flexible array of simple practices, he will help you with approaches that are easy to use and that help you develop bigger minds over time. His fluency in facilitation provides us flexible design options to create meaningful leadership development experiences, and in creating the right dialogue formats for you to get great work done, find your answer in complexity, all the while learning and developing as a team and as leaders over time.

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