“The problem is not the problem; the problem is the way we think about the problem.” Watzlawick
An inescapable part of leadership is continuous decision-making. Navigating between conflicting situations and conflicting goals. On the one hand, the leader is confronted with dilemmas: situations in which some his values and goals conflict, yet he must find the best or least bad alternative, make a decision and implement it consistently. On the other hand, they must constantly navigate between interdependent and conflicting objectives. In this paradoxical field, the leader has to continuously make decisions that bring his activities into a creative synergy.
This course provides on the one hand, provides methods for analysing situations and tensions, and for finding innovative solutions that create synergies, rather than compromises, between competing goals and intentions. On the other hand, we will use the latest tests from leading experts to analyse the current leadership thinking of our participants and identify areas where they can improve.
Take this course if you face ongoing tension among interdependent but partially conflicting goals and demands and need to navigate towards optimal outcomes. If you want to better respond to dilemmas and paradoxes in your personal and work lives.
Description
This course offers you:
- methods for analysing and solving dilemmas and paradoxical situations
- practice in accepting and reflecting on underlying tensions among contradictory and interdependent goals and needs and making innovative and effective decisions
- analysis of your own leadership mindset and competence in this area and help on how to improve them
- support your comfort zone and strengthen your tolerance for uncertainty and ambivalence.
You develop the following competences of yours:
- analyse and reflect on personal and managerial dilemmas and develop optimal solutions
- exploring tensions between aspects of organisational and leadership strategies and turning them into creative, sustainable synergies
- navigating between conflicting values and goals
We recommend this course to:
Leaders who face ongoing tension among interdependent but partially conflicting goals and demands and need to navigate towards optimal outcomes. For leaders and colleagues who want to better respond to dilemmas and paradoxes in their personal and work lives.
Main topics:
- Decision situations, human reflection, and reactions
- Methods for dealing with traditional and paradoxical conflicts of values and goals:
- Personal dilemmas, and methods of analysis and decision-making
- Reflection exercises for dealing with management dilemma situations – methods of analysis and decision making
- Practice for dealing with paradoxical situations – analysis and management methods
- Analysis of participants’ mindsets and practices and identification of opportunities for improvement.
Take this course if:
You are curious to know exactly how you react to difficult situations, what are the key elements of your thinking and where you can improve it; and you want to get methods to better analyse and understand what conflicts lie beneath ambivalent decision situations, how to turn them into positive energies and what can help you to make more balanced and confident decisions.
Methodology:
Structured analysis of own and constructed cases, examples, own mindset analysis tool, methodological explanation, guidance and practice. All embedded in an exciting dialogue, with short knowledge blocks and methodological exercises.
Parameters
| Time: | Ideally, 1.5 in-person days, but it can be a 1-day event and also conducted online. |
| Participants: | senior management, hr managers, midlevel managers |
| Suggested venue: | company premises or external venue |
| Language: | english or hungarian |
| Előadó(k): | Pallai Katalin |
| Ár: | according to specific price offer |