VUCA Leadership is about leading when you don’t have all the answers. The Covid-19 Pandemic has shown us how unready many of our world leaders are. Everyone knows that we live in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, but they blamed each other as it doing so will solve the problem.
Of course, we can talk about being resilient and having the ability to bounce forward in the new normal. But the new normal is also a VUCA World. Unless leaders develop new skills, more people will suffer.
Wherever you are now in your leadership, may this piece help you prepare yourself for the next big step.
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7 Leadership Challenges in a VUCA World
Many leaders fail in two areas: appreciation and engagement. In many organizations, the blame for the inability to get things done almost always falls on the employees.
Managers get motivational speakers because they hope they can cure employee productivity and performance problems.
Companies rise and fall on leadership.
You can make a great impact if you are responsible for building and developing leaders in your organization.
And if you are like my clients, you want to find out how a leadership speaker, coach, or mentor can help you address some of the challenges that leaders face nowadays.
Even the most influential leaders face any of these seven challenges:
Organizations exist in a VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous). Therefore, leaders must manage, mobilize, lead, and deal with change.
