Introducing our new ‘KAOS MANAGEMENT – (Strategic Regenerative Project management’) training. We have launched this new in person or hybrid training, in collaboration with our global licensees & associates to share our work with regenerative practice and strategies to take action and be part of the solution to regenerate organisational capacity, potential, purpose and meaning through projects & management. This course starts with the belief that….

“MANAGERS ARE PERFECTLY POSITIONED TO PROBE, SENSE & RESPOND TO DRIVE THE CHANGES AND TRANSITION NEEDED, FROM THE CENTRE OUT, VERTICALLY AND LATERALLY THROUGH OUT THE CULTURE, ORGANISATION AND SYSTEM.”

 

We believe that co-created and well managed regenerative strategies and transitions, with teams and across departments, inspired by natural & living systems can drive organisational GROWTH. Growth strategies that must include CULTURE, CUSTOMERS & CLIMATE as core elements, supported by a clear project & learning strategy for unified management, leadership & organisational development.

Therefore, we will train and explore regenerative management for increasing the capacity for engagement and creativity and embracing complexity to become managers and hosts of a creative culture for day to day projects and systemic adaptive ones. 

Complexity and uncertainty are on the rise across all sectors as we bridge many internal & external challenges such as financing; higher state control, AI, geopolitics, national policies and assessment, staff turnover, engagement and retention, industry, social and environmental pressures. And, of course operationally, increased pressure on administration and the growing complexity and diversity of the challenges managers face.

By fostering a culture of strategic regenerative project management, systems can proactively work and navigate within between CHAOS AND ORDER, PRODUCTIVITY AND CREATIVITY, FRUSTRATION & BREAKTHROUGH to advance cooperation and interconnectedness for sustainable (change) project and transition management. This will be the new competitive advantage for business and institutional development & growth. 

Content

For Kaos managers to súcceed, we must train and prepare a new breed of managers & administrators to understand complexity, DISRUPT approaches and navigate in uncertainty with the courage to let go of industrial processes and productivity to co-create space and ways of working & thinking to explore and adapt new ways to manage, host, facilitate & lead for organisational and regenerative change.

WHAT IS A KAOS MANAGER?

 

It is someone who, inspired by nature & systems, actively responds to current & emerging challenges by driving and consciously managing projects and processes that empower their teams and organisations to implement this 3 step cyclical process, fostering transformation through strategic regenerative projects & transition. 

 

1.IDENTIFY : Sense and adapt

2.INVENT: Empower & Engage

3.IMPLEMENT: Experiment, evaluate and Improve

 

WHAT CAN A KAOS MANAGER DO and what you will learn

• They have the capacity to work optimally with what they have & with capacity beyond ableness. 
• They have the ability to sense the necessary patterns & rhythms, and they inspire, invent, prototype and manage micro experiments.
• They generate & bring new insights and perspectives so (novel) solutions can emerge 
• They can shift from connected parts to vital nested wholes 
• They can shift from problem to self & system actualisation.
• They can connect with individuals, teams & across organisations to foster interconnectedness and lateral Innovation across departments.
• They create safe spaces and processes for diversity, inclusion and collaboration
• They set up projects & work-flows for optimal creative & productive performance & operations
• They build regenerative capacity across organisational boundaries to create, innovate & improve project culture, processes, services and outcomes. 

Course Overview

You will be brought through the full process so as to train & prepare you to run it again in your own organisations.

Step 0. CALL TO ADVENTURE & invitation to set the days and beyond.

The Phase ZERO – orientation & vision setting beyond ableness – 3P growth.

Step 1. IDENTIFY

The first phase, IDENTIFY to explore, sense & identify yourself, your team, your organisation* & its system

* observe & understand the current potential, development, interconnectedness, emergence, intrin-extrinsic team & org challenges.

Step 2. INVENT (& design for IMPLEMENTATION)

The second phase, INVENT & IMPLEMENT, where you will choose to focus on either your team or organisation and harvest, synthesise & reframe, enhance and evaluate.

Sense and adapt, Empower & Engage 

Learn how to create & plan for the implementation (invite, apply, test, prototype, iterate & live with) of your regenerative project plan, next steps, blind spots, tasks, success, challenges and meeting resistance. And, supported by your course leader & peers in triad groups.

Step 3. Implement and Improve (Experiment & evaluate)

Explore how to work iteratively and design & manage micro-experimnet for 

Is This for Us?

If you believe that the future survival, development and growth of your organisation is based on growing culture more than capital, then this course is for your managers. Complexity and change are highly disruptive to all ecosystems, but not detrimental if they are used to give rather than to take energy and to inspire a new lateral learning edge for the entire organisation. This creates space and opportunity for a more unified appreciative, cooperative, creative team-based culture for strategic and systemic transition.

ARE YOU READY TO BECOME A KAOS-MANAGER?

The workshop needs people who are open to explore and experiment and be inspired by new processes, mindsets, people, and perspectives to develop their role within their organization to become a better leader and collaborator through working and navigating within complexity and by adapting to change, innovation and experimentation.

You could be a manager at any level, an academic leader or a HR manager who wants to promote and create:

• New ideas and perspectives for how to manage micro & macro projects
• Growth in your own & your team’s 3P development, Professional, Practical & Personal.
• More meaning and purpose is what you do and a better connection and trust with your team.
• Processes and collaboration for solving complex tasks that require a systemic and co-owned solution.
• Diversity & culture to bring together various levels and skills to inspire the transformation of your organizational culture and processes.

IS YOUR TEAM, LEADER & COMPANY READY TO … ?

Is your TEAM ready and does it want to explore new project methods, processes & ways of working that will demand a higher team performance with more collaboration, creativity, connection, ownership, self-determination, uncertainty, meaning and breakthrough?

Is your LEADER ready to support their new regenerative manager and management philosophy to implement what we will learn, design & do during these 3 months and beyond, by offering space, time & encouragement for the RM to invite, prototype, test, contextualise, implement and disrupt?

Is your COMPANY ready to explore and ‘potentially’ foster a culture of cross department or faculty connection, collaboration, adaptability and ownership to advance cooperation for effective regenerative management to support the development of new processes, products, services and innovative solutions to create a more competitive advantage for the whole organisation or university. 

If NOT, then the timing is not right for sustainable impact & return on investment from this training, or you are in the wrong company?

Testimonials (from my previous chaordic leadership 3 day training)

“For three years I have come to the Kaospilots with a group of students and alumni from Steinbeis School of Management and Innovation in Berlin, and it is always a great and inspiring time for all participants. The educational concept is vast; our students learn so many new and innovative concepts for leadership and solving complex tasks so much that I really can say that Kaospilot creates new – and better – leaders. The Kaospilot is able to change the complete way to guide teams and teach how to create space for innovation and creativity in a company. We will definitely be back next year”.

Raimund Bellinghausen – Program Director Steinbeis SMI

”Participants generally found this program very engaging and fun, enjoying the way of teaching and delivery. It emphasized the importance of creating space for collaborative innovations through creative thinking methods for implementing, where every team member takes an equally important role in contributing to its success.”

Edmund Lee – Executive Director at Hong Kong Design Centre

“The course was facilitated in a calm, confident and experimental space. The facilitator empowered all the team members and they in turn empowered each other. Simon showed a great knowledge and passion about the topics in a very good variety of lectures and engagement. I left with the encouragement to try different things and understand how I can break down barriers in myself and improve my team interaction.”

IDK (Institute of Design Knowledge) empowering game changers (Hong Kong Design School)

 

Approach

The unique KAOSPILOT approach is built around a rigorous training platform that dynamically combines practice, reflection and theory. You will be applying tools and theory, which you will learn about through practical exercises. Our approach enables you to acquire different mindsets to apply to your work. This includes experimentation, exploration and taking initiative.

You will have the opportunity to create your own internal innovation process & method for working with and navigating change