GLO

VUCA STRATEGIC THINKING

1.5 days

Program Overview

VUCA Strategic Thinking is a one and half day customised program that focuses on mid to senior (executive) leaders. It provides a framework and tools to develop in-depth strategic thinking in daily decision-making practice with a focus on understanding and mitigating internal and external events that are Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous affecting the business reality. The workshop will include individual reflection, team and group discussions. Concepts and core themes shall be applied to the company’s related business challenges in order to emphasise the applicability of learning outcomes.

Core themes throughout the VUCA Strategic Thinking workshop will include:

　1.　What is Strategic Thinking
　2.　What is VUCA and how does it affect the business environment
　3.　What is insight and foresight and how do we develop them
　4.　How do we nurture intuitive capacity
　5.　VUCA strategic thinking and mitigation of risks as a competitive advantage

Workshop participants will be able to:

　•　Reflect on their strategic thinking capacity
　•　Understand how we develop facts and insights
　•　Experience how intuitive foresight can be nurtured and why it is crucial in a VUCA world
　•　Apply different strategic thinking tools to ensure better quality decisions
　•　Develop a VUCA strategic action plan for execution
　•　Gain higher awareness how strategic thinking is different from strategy and needs to be daily practiced

Participants will need to come prepared wih especially materials that can cover:
　　•　Internal and external changes and events that are happening in the company and market space
　　•　Understanding of strategic positioning, objectives, vision and values of the company

In order to ensure maximum impact of this one and a half day workshop, GLO will engage facilitators who are not only well experienced in conducting workshops, but have considerable practical experiences in the C-Suite. See facilitator profiles enclosed to learn more.

Sample DAY 1: Morning agenda

TIME	DESCRIPTION
08:30	REGISTRATION
09:00	OPENING SPEECH
09:15	WHAT IS STRATEGIC THINKING AND HOW IT RELATES TO STRATEGY? Understanding what the difference between strategy and strategic thinking Know the 3 steps of strategic thinking Assess behaviours of good strategic thinkers
10:15	WHAT IS VUCA AND HOW IT AFFECTS OUR ORGANIZATION? Appreciating VUCA as a tool in strategic thinking Understanding what VUCA is and how it (may) affect our company Assessing the VUCA elements influencing our markets and the readiness of our organization Reviewing what actions we should take to address the identified VUCA influencing factors
12:30	LUNCH BREAK
13:30	STRATEGIC THINKING Step 1: VALIDATION How to validate facts? Exercise: how to validate VUCA facts
14:30	STRATEGIC THINKING Step 2: SYNTHESIZE How to gain insights? Exercise: how to generate VUCA in
15:30	STRATEGIC THINKING Step 3: SENSE How to nurture foresight? Exercise: how to develop VUCA foresight
16:30	WRAP UP

Sample DAY 2: Morning agenda

TIME	DESCRIPTION
09:00	RECAP OF DAY 1
09:30	STRATEGIC CHALLENGE EXERCISE Customized case based exercise to apply strategic thinking with VUCA as a thinking framework Team based development Team sharing
11:30	KEY TAKEAWAYS – WRAP

Introducing your module deliverer

PETER BUYTAERT
Chief Responsibility Officer GLO
Qualifications: 　•　Strategic Business Economics Programme, University of Asia and Pacific 　•　Advanced Management Programme, INSEAD, 　•　MSC Commercial Engineering, EHSAL 　•　BA, Law, Univ Antwerp 　•　Prince Albert Fellow
Experience Peter Buytaert builds on more than twenty five years of Global and Asia executive management, leadership and entrepreneurial experience. Peter specialises in creating platforms for global leadership selection, assessment and development. In addition to lecturing on change, corporate governance and Asia strategy, Peter is also co-founder and Chief Responsibility Officer of GLO – Good Leaders Online. He has been consulting and coaching on senior executive (CEO) level for the past 4 years including clients like Barco, Honeywell, Umicore, IBM, Sanofi, Johnson&Johnson, etc. Previous to current roles, Peter served as Chairman for three consecutive years of the Benelux Chamber of Commerce (Bencham) of Shanghai. He is a truly global citizen with a unique track record in cross cultural people leadership, start-up and business strategy, as well as driving change in organisations across Asia and China in particular. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Peter was responsible for Agfa Graphics regional sales and operations as its President Asia. Before making Shanghai his base, he resided in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Seoul, with extensive project time spent in India.