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“The temptation to lead as a chess master, controlling each move of the organization, must give way to an approach as a gardener, enabling rather than directing. A gardening approach to leadership is anything but passive.
The leader acts as an “Eyes-On, Hands-Off” enabler who creates and maintains an ecosystem in which the organization operates.”

― Stanley McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Coaching and Leadership from a Complexity Perspective 

Complexity science and application alter the way we look at change, transformation, leadership and organisational development.

Today’s leaders are asked to navigate in complex environments, while most of their technical skill sets enable them for more transactional, expert-style interactions. The distinction between complex and complicated domains has become a crucial one in the VUCA world, with a capital C for Complexity.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has made it quite clear that the world has become more volatile and unpredictable. Uncertainty and ambiguity are no longer buzzwords, but people have a felt sense of what it means to face these challenges for real on a daily basis in both personal and professional life.

“In a world where causality is systemic, entangled, in flux, and often elusive, we cannot design for absolute outcomes. Instead, we need to design for emergence. “ Ann Pendleton-Jullian

How to respond to an increasingly ‘white water world’ is the primary challenge facing today’s leaders and leadership, and it changes coaching and leadership development accordingly in these contexts. 

There is an emerging quality, a different dimension, that defines coaching and leadership development from a complexity viewpoint:

The complexity part signifies, that we draw on a multitude of perspectives based on a coherent theory and practice of leadership for today’s disruptive, volatile, and intensively networked society. We are committed to working with what is, with probing, sensing and safe-to-fail experiments for adaptive contexts.  

The coaching aspect means that we don’t come with ready-made solutions and recipes and that we enable our clients, private and corporate, to find their own solutions in the circumstances of their everyday challenges. However, complexity coaching goes beyond the aspect of bringing out the fullest personal and professional potential in a leader. It brings in the whole relationship with people’s embeddedness in different systems and environments. Complexity coaching looks as much at the systemic context, the ‘in-between’ and the relationship dynamics as well as the actions and skills of individual leaders. 

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Der folgende Artikel ist in der Online-Zeitschrift “Integrale Perspektiven” IP-2020: Integrale Politik erschienen: https://www.integralesforum.org/integrale-perspektiven/2020/198-ip-04-2020-integrale-politik/5275-die-politik-der-kleinen-schritte-sensemaking-und-kollektive-veraenderung-unter-komplexen-bedingungen-von-anne-caspari Die Politik der kleinen Schritte: Sensemaking und kollektive Veränderung unter komplexen Bedingungen. Von Anne Caspari (LiFT) Die zwei großen Krisen unserer Zeit, Covid-19 und… Read More

Skilled Decision-Making…. is hard to come by

Decision-making processes are largely misunderstood. Based on the number of decisions we make every day in our private and business lives, it is surprising how many people do not even know how to do it: making good decisions.

For many people, decision-making is more like a process of guessing or betting on a result, be that what they eat in a restaurant to choosing a job or investing in the stock market. Many even inform themselves, ask the right questions, but when it comes to the actual decision, they muddle through, decide somehow, and hope for a good result.

Risk vs Uncertainty

The trouble with decision making (DM) as a topic is its complex character which is doesn’t lend itself well to unpack it in a linear modality. For as soon as we want to dive further into our process,… Read More

Decision-Making: Framing

In the last blog I ended with establishing a baseline around decision making, drawing on the Lectical Decision Making Assessment (LDMA) and Russo & Schoemaker (“Winning Decisions”): Framing: the general goal of the decision maker including the way they… Read More

How do we make decisions?

With the amount of decisions that we make every day, it is astonishing that the process of making decisions is not well understood. So how do we make the best choice? The very act of deciding seems a… Read More

On Transforming Patterns

This is a recent interview conducted by Joanne Wood for a partner organisation Rise Beyond, UK: A conversation with Anne Caspari Anne is a specialist in transformative processes and change, for both personal and leadership development. With a… Read More

Shadow work

This picture below (please excuse yet another iceberg image, but it is so fitting) should be self-explanatory. This is also what we are doing in our Transformation Intensive Courses, where we go down to that level at day… Read More

Scaling Micro-Changes

Group transformation processes, much like individual transformative processes, follow different phase with distinctly recognizable stages. According to these patterns, a skilled coach/facilitator can keep the individual or the group in the process. The main task is to counteract… Read More

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Vertical Development

and Ways Out Of It: We work with developmental models where they are adequate in order to cope with ever increasing complexity in the VUCA world. We don’t focus on teaching people to think at “higher levels”. 

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