This presentation gives you a brief knowledge about the VUCA World/ Environment and strategic learning methodologies to define VUCA Prime.

1. WINTERTemplateDeveloping Leaders
in a
“VUCA Environment”
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Prepared & Presented By: Neeraj Jain

2. 02Agenda
1. Introduction
2. The origin of VUCA
3. VUCA and leadership development
4. VUCA defined
5. The VUCA prime
6. Conclusion

3. 03Introduction
Today’s market rate of change is much different than in
the past.
Rapid changes warnings to all the businesses, institutions
and nation states.
Speed of change overwhelming the skill set of
leadership, flexibility & imaginations to adapt.
Strategic business leaders are calling this “A VUCA
environment”.

4. 03Introduction

5. 04Origin of VUCA
VUCA introduced by U.S. Army War College in late
1990’s.
“New Normal” - VUCA adopted by strategic business
leaders to describe chaotic, turbulent & rapid changing
business environment.
Example – Financial crisis of 2008-2009
 Many businesses obsolete but few got success due to
adapt of new technologies like social media exploded
etc.

6. 05Leadership Development
Leadership agility and adaptability skills required in this
VUCA world to succeed.
Book “Leadership Agility: A Business Imperative for a
VUCA World” says:
 Leaders must make continuous shifts in people, process,
technology and structure to succeed. This requires
Flexibility & Quickness in decision making.
 Boston Consulting Group (BCG) says shifts Business
Models & Leadership Skills fast to become “Adaptive
Firms”. Example: Apple, Google, Amazon etc.

7. 05Leadership Development
HR & talent management professionals has to apply VUCA
model as a framework to re-tool leadership development
models for creating highly adaptive, skilled & agile leaders in
the organizations.
Company Spotlight: Unilever

8. 06What is VUCA

9. 07The VUCA Prime

10. 08Learning & Development
 HR & Talent Management professionals must reframe leadership
development activities to focus:
 Less on behavioral competencies
 More on learning agility, self-awareness, comfort with
ambiguity and strategic thinking.
 Steps Talent Mangers Can take:
1. Hire Agile Leaders.
2. Developing Existing Leaders to be Agile Leaders.
3. Foster an Organizational Culture that rewards VUCA
Prime Behaviors and Retains Agile Employees.

11. 09Conclusion
The Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity
(VUCA) is “New Normal” in today’s business world.
In VUCA World more strategic, complex critical thinking
skills are demanded from business leader to get the
organization success.
HR & Talent management professionals can help in
developing leaders who can counter Volatility, Uncertainty,
Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) with Vision,
Understanding, Clarity and Agility (VUCA Prime/ Antidote).