LEADERSHIP TEAM MASTERCLASS

context

rules!

Elevate your team's sensemaking and decision-making capabilities with Contextual Intelligence

Context Rules!

Develop your contextual awareness, understand the limits of your knowledge, adapt to different situations and make contextually intelligent decisions

In an era defined by complexity, uncertainty and rapid technological advancement, the Context Rules! Masterclass empowers leadership teams with the crucial leadership competency of Contextual Intelligence.

Gain deep insight into the power of context and the awareness to reframe events and situations, adapt your thinking, and apply your capabilities in a variety of scenarios and environments.

Ignite Your Team's Contextual Intelligence

This transformative learning experience is designed to equip your leadership team with the Contextual Intelligence needed to lead in today's dynamic world of work.

Context will always rule - no matter how well thought through our strategy, a change in context can derail it, causing a cascade of unexpected macro and micro changes in our businesses. It can also galvanise us to dust off a project or innovative idea that didn't see the light of day as a new context might give it wings.

We can think of context as a filter or lens that enables us to make sense of and navigate the complexities of our world. Without it, we are likely to misinterpret information, make poor decisions or miss out on a deeper understanding and meaning.

Context is both internal and external – a snapshot of who and where we are in time and space. Our Contextual Intelligence informs how we think about, react and respond to events and situations, individually and collectively.

It also determines our ability to appreciate the varied conditions inherent in ourselves, other people, cultures, societal norms and business environments in ways that are difficult to codify. And it explains why our business practices may need radical reworking (rather than tweaking) to fit local conditions.

Contextual Intelligence is the crucial leadership competency that empowers us to think exponentially and act incrementally, elevating our decision-making capabilities.

This Masterclass is designed specifically for leadership teams who recognise the need to broaden their thinking and tap into the knowledge, perspectives and wisdom inherent in different contexts. It challenges our love affair with certainty, control and predictability, empowering leaders to understand the limits of their knowledge and adapt to a variety of scenarios and environments.

Join Louise Mowbray on this highly relevant learning experience, ensuring your leadership team is empowered to shape a sustainable and thriving future.

Masterclass Takeaways

Understand the Nature of Context: Context is both internal and external – a snapshot of who and where we are in time and space - it determines how we think about and respond to events and situations, individually and collectively.
Create Contextual Awareness: Appreciate the varied and dynamic conditions inherent in people, cultures, societal norms and business environments in ways that are difficult to codify.
Navigate Contexts With Confidence: Make sense of the interconnected context you're working in, understand the limits of what you know and tap into the knowledge, perspectives and wisdom inherent in different environments.
Leverage the Power of Human Attributes: Embrace the value of self-awareness, agility, creativity, curiosity, intuition and collaboration and how they positively impact our ability to lead in our contextually rich world of work.
Anticipate and Act on Signals of Change: Reframe events and situations through a contextually appropriate lens, identify early signals of change and make contextually intelligent decisions to propel your organisation forward.

ENQUIRE

In an era defined by complexity, uncertainty and rapid technological advancement, now is the time to be intentional about equipping ourselves to navigate our contextually rich and dynamic world of work.

Masterclass Structure

PRE-WORK

Louise gets deeply curious, asks loads of questions, listens deeply and gets clear on your purpose. She tailors the engagement your team, business and the context in which you operate and establishes desired outcomes before the engagement begins.

3 LIVE SESSIONS

Having gained contextual insight, we then come together for three 120-minute in-person, hybrid or virtual sessions.

3 CHECK-IN'S

We subsequently meet online for 60-minutes on a monthly basis over the course of 3 months to support you and your team to use all you've learned in your day-to-day business lives.

3 LIVE SESSIONS

Session 1: Awakening to the Power of Context

The Power of Context: Awaken to the power of context, why it Rules! and how our Contextual Intelligence impacts our ability to navigate today's complex business environments.
Inner Context: Develop the self-awareness to appreciate how our inner filters or 'lenses on the world' play a critical role in how we make sense of what's going on and adapt our knowledge to diverse settings.
Future-Focused Leadership: Empower your team with the future-focused leadership attributes, skills and competencies needed to build your Contextual Intelligence, individually and collectively.

Session 2: Embracing Our Interconnectedness

Systems, Complexity and Sensemaking: Expand your team's appreciation of the interconnectedness of the varied conditions inherent in ourselves, other people, cultures, societal norms and business environments in ways that are difficult to codify.
Cognitive and Emotional Agility: Develop your agile thinking, curiosity and creativity and the cognitive flexibility and emotional agility needed to adapt to different contexts and environments.
The Limits of Our Knowledge: Understand the limitations of our knowledge, adapt it to environments that are different from where it was acquired, and tap into the knowledge, perspectives and wisdom inherent in different contexts.

Session 3: Hindsight, Insight and Foresight

Futures Thinking and Foresight: Learn how to think in multiple futures and leverage past experiences, present circumstances, and desired futures to navigate complex issues, and make contextually intelligent decisions.
Conditions, Affordances and Constraints: Any strategy, project or endeavour focused on change, transformation, innovation or growth has these elements at play - learn to explore their properties, understand their context(s) and drive the outcomes you seek.
Enrich Your Strategy: Explore and enrich your current strategy with all that you've learned, tap into the Contextual Intelligence inherent in your systems, and be intentional about creating the futures you desire.