Free Guide: Navigating Complexity

An Integrated Framework for Human Services Leadership

 

What You’ll Learn

Human services government and nonprofit organizations today operate in what military strategists call a VUCA environment; one defined by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Change is fast-paced and large in magnitude. Reliable information about the future is scarce.

Yet the dominant tools in the sector were designed for a world that was more predictable.

The question this guide addresses is not how to plan better within the existing paradigm. It is what leadership looks like when the paradigm itself must change.

Table of Contents

  • Seeing the Whole: Systems Thinking as Foundation
  • Navigating Change: The Adaptive Cycle as Leadership
    Framework
  • Planning for a World That Won’t Hold Still
  • Learning as the Engine: Evaluation Reimagined
  • Governance That Enables
  • Putting It All Together
  • An Invitation

Learn the 5 key ingredients that nonprofit organizations and government leaders need in order to understand and improve their roles in complex social systems.

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