1. The Dynamics of Self Leadership
The Changing Nature of University Leadership: Implications for Development Practitioners
The Dynamics of Self Leadership
Dr Mike Munro Turner
November 13th 2015

2. The Dynamics of Self Leadership
The Changing Nature of University Leadership: Implications for Development Practitioners
The Dynamics of Self Leadership
Dr Mike Munro Turner
November 13th 2015

3. VUCA Volatile Stable Uncertain Predictable Complex Simple/Complicated
Ambiguous
Stable
Predictable
Simple/Complicated
Clear
Sense & Respond
Predict & Control

4. Responding to a VUCA World
Organisational Design
Self-management
Evolutionary Purpose
Wholeness
do 4 basic things
Leader Development

5. What do Leaders do? … imagine a compelling, sustainable future
… take action to bring it into being
Internal
External
… make sense of it
… see what’s going on
Present

6. What do Leaders need to do?
Future
… imagine a compelling, sustainable future
… take action to bring it into being
- sense the emerging future
- have a meaningful purpose
- be courageous and bold
- develop your leadership
- catalyse change
- lead the way, hold the space
- be yourself with skill & flexibility
- be experimental
Self Manage
- be mindful,
not mindless
- from Ego to Eco
- from Control to Partnership V U C A
Internal
External
… make sense of it
… see what’s going on
- use heart and gut
- step down the ladder of inference
- manage regressions, mental
models & traps
- manage paradox & polarities
- ask different questions
- take multiple perspectives
- see systems
- be reflective and reflexive
Present

7. Conclusion Leadership is different in a VUCA world
It takes time and commitment to develop
You can enable this by:
Educating top leaders about the new leadership
Providing the support to help leaders inhabit this space
Modelling the new leadership behaviours