Leadership and Management Programmes

As for the previous modules, please complete this pre-work before joining the session:

Three Horizons

• Review the Three Horizons Toolkit, from the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales. Use the four questions from the Toolkit shown below, to prepare an example from your own work which allows you to explore the future and plan how to get there. You will discuss this example with a partner in a breakout room during the session.

The 4 questions:

• Present concerns. What makes you think the current situation needs to change? 
• Future aspirations. What would you like this to look and feel like in 2050? 
• Inspirational practice. Where is the 2050 vision happening already? 
• Innovations in play. What projects, ideas or initiatives are in play or in sight that aim to change the status quo? 

Courageous Conversations

• Think through a conversation you have had recently which you found tricky or difficult or didn’t go as you expected (it may have been better than expected).Complete the Left-hand / right-hand column hand-out in advance of the next module as we will be working with this.

Slide pack

If it is your preference to take notes on the slide pack, and to see the full agenda in advance, and when the breaks will be, you can download the slides from the Resources section below. This is optional and not a requirement.

A note about any book resources - for ease, the links to any books are made to Amazon, but the books will also be available through other retailers and local bookshops, including World of Books (https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb), which has high quality second hand and reasonably priced new books.

"Left-hand / right-hand column"

An example and further explanation of the "Left-Hand Column" approach can be found on page 246 of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization (1994) by Peter Senge et al. The Fieldbook also has chapters on Mental Models and Systems Thinking. To understand how this book may be used, read https://thesystemsthinker.com/the-fifth-discipline-fieldbook-a-guide-to-the-learning-organization/.

If you found the "left-hand / right-hand " approach enlightening, then you might want to explore a bit more around the concept of effective "dialogue". In working on our "wicked" and "adaptive" challenges, many of the difficulties we face relate back to conversations which do not go as well as we had planned or expected.  You may this 5-page Systems Thinking and Dialogic Leadership article helpful, in its exploration of Dialogic Practices and David Kantor's Four-Player Model.