TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE AND INSPIRE OTHERS TO THRIVE IN A VUCA WORLD
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Imagine a space where personal growth meets purposeful action—where we are not just the influencer of others, but also the leader of our own life. This website enables you see that leadership is not a title or a position. It’s a choice we make to learn and respond positively to lead with self-awareness, vision, courage, and integrity. Not feeling we have to fix everything and be in control.
Whether we are looking to improve our relationships, advance our career, or simply live with greater meaning, this Life Leadership website provides you with the learning tools, insights and inspiration. You adopt the practices needed to thrive in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment.
As you live your life, you either take responsibility for your choices and actions, or you allow others to do your thinking for you. Be a powerful observer of what you are experiencing. Question how you are being influenced by others, especially those who may not have your best interests at heart.
Power and position are not that important to the fully conscious leader. It’s how others bring their energies into the causes that compel them to take care of what’s important. Pause, and reflect on the results achieved as you assess past actions, the language being used in the present and commitment to a desired future.
To succeed in a VUCA World we must learn how to observe and engage with four aspects of our Way of Being.
that help us manage our attitude to acceptance and the agility to adapt. They determine our personal effectiveness, performance, relationships, health and welfare. Find out how . . . .
“We must look out on the world with a humble attitude of accepting that we are not fully in control; that we will never have all the relevant data to make a decision or know exactly what to do in every situation; that there will always be more to see, to learn, and to experience in our lived moments of leadership.” Patrick Boland
that is created by the language we choose, the emotions we display, our presence and the relationships we establish. It gives us the ability to make conscious choices on how to manage ourselves and others. Find out how . . .
that are generated from the stories we tell ourselves. They reflect what really matters to us. We rewrite the script to transform our actions and adapt our attitudes to realise a desired future. Find out how . . .
“Life stories are constructed in some form of time sequence, with the story teller the lead actor. It may have a recuring theme or appear haphazard. It can branch out where the story is dominated by one historical event.” John Truby ‘The Anatomy of Story’ 2007
that we can access, that comes from how we use our innate abilities (IO), the way we reframe our context (OI), the values and rules we apply in our relationships (BU) and our commitment to the people and tasks we care about (TD). Find out how . . . .
Where does AI fit into a VUCA World?
Leadership involves interpreting ambiguous information in complex and unpredictable environments. AI lacks the emotional intelligence, human intution, empathy and ethical reasoning needed to navigate change and decision-making in a VUCA environment. However, AI can excel at managing repetitive tasks, automating processes, combining data and suggesting options. But making moral judgements, strategic decisions and political choices still requires human sensemaking. A more complex intelligence is emerging that combines individual, collective and artificial forms of intelligence to respond to VUCA situations.
“No matter how much we know about our organisation, our people, and our own capabilities and leadership, the uncertainties of tomorrow and the complexities of our contexts and relationships today all invite us beyond a tips-and-techniques approach to leading. We need to practice holding the tension between influencing from a place of authenticity and accepting that we cannot fully control any situation or outcome.” Patrick Boland. ‘The Contemplative Leader’ 2014
This website offers you a unique set of resources and practices to transform your leadership skills.
To be a Life Leader you must know how to listen to understand and improve your actions. Only action changes things. If you admit to a mistake, but remain unconvinced that any action could improve things, you are stuck. You haven’t faced the facts, explored enough possibilities or embraced uncertainty.
STEVE TRIVETT
Leadership Coach & Change Consultant
We are entering a world of exponential change, where life is becoming more Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. In this website share diverse perspectives and my experience of preparing leaders and coaches to thrive in a VUCA environment.
We are already facing feelings of insecurity and overwhelm in daily life and work. Leadership in this era of unreliability requires new attitudes and skills that require human wisdom combined with artificial and collective intelligences – that I describe as Complex Intelligence.
Working with AI tools requires reasoning and sense-making skills. We must learn the tools needed and use them to prompt new thoughts, questions and become more productive. For example, using smart assistants to eliminate boring admin tasks and poor service. We need to develop your conversation and problem-solving skills to find common ground. ChatGBT can teach us how to question ourselves to create new prompts and new possibilities.
Observing human behaviour and patterns of social interaction can help adapt to a more volatile, uncertain and ambiguous environmen. We can learn to enhance our performance, share accountability and value each other’s innate wisdom. Leaders must be open to look at relationships in new ways to be more present and open to find shared values and cares..
Choosing different types of conversation to support coordinated action and better decision-making. Finding agreement around what is cared about to develop practical insights and relationships to use in Agentive AI tools and simulations. The leader relies more on the wisdom of the team and the data to make important choices.
Dynamic change requires small, concrete steps, whilst maintaining a compelling narrative for change. Rapid feedback and data interrogation is needed to choose when to stop, start, or change direction. At a strategic level, ChatGPT tools can test and shape your ideas to suggest new thinking patterns for innovation and scenario planning. Life Leaders are more agile and responsive to new possibilities and open to different perspectives.
How do we plan for randomness. We are entering a time when what we get is the opposite of what was expected. What appears real can be fake and what is said is not meant. Differences of opinion and intention are interpreted as threats to our personal identity and integrity.
The result is volatility in relationships and trust in promises. Complexity brings infinite possibilities and choices that produce ambiguity where opposites can true at the same time.
In a VUCA World, leaders have to be “alchemists”, where insight, integrity and authenticity can deliver results in a seemingly mysterious and randomised way.
The “magic” is performed by leaders who connect people willing to commit to a plan, without knowing how things will turn out. In a VUCA World leaders have to take calculated risks that rely more on intuition than analysis.
The “alchemists” are headteachers who commit to meeting the diverse needs of every child, with an ever decreasing budget. Bosses who have to find the best way to balance competeing interests wih fewer resources. Politicians developing policies that benefit individuals that also satify organisations and community needs.
