Leaders need more than a set of recipes, handpicked case studies, and so called ‘best practices’ to affect change and fundamentally shift their organizations. This session will introduce participants to the Cynefin framework and demonstrate how leaders at every level can use it to make sense of the world in order to take effective action. Cynefin is a situational leadership framework that guides work, decision making, and management actions across environments with various degrees of uncertainty and strategic foresight.
While many seasoned leaders readily embrace adaptive approaches, Cynefin explains why adaptive methods and resilient designs work particularity well in complex, uncertain environments. The session will also dive into complexity-informed methods and practices that will enhance a leader’s ability to navigate wicked problems and opportunities alike. The session will feature real-world examples, lessons learned, and mini-case studies on how to apply these ideas in the context of an Agile and Lean transformation.
Cynefin is a surprisingly simple framework that can be drawn from memory on a napkin, yet the rich discussions it unlocks for a leadership team are profound and serve as radical catalyst for change.