A course for leaders to develop their inner game and coaches who want to better support their clients who lead in this VUCA landscape

Realise your leadership potency at a fraction of the cost of coaching

 This 11+ hour self-development course offers the transformative power of coaching, condensed into a format you can access anytime, anywhere, for just a fraction of the price of traditional one-on-one coaching. Invest in yourself and your leadership potential for a powerful return on investment.

Before purchasing watch the free 90 minute introductory course available via the home page  at www.vucaleadership.co.uk. The introductory course could provide a sufficient focus for your self-development without needing to invest further for now!

Lost at Sea in a VUCA Storm

The leadership landscape has morphed into a churning ocean of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA). Once-reliable strategies leave you adrift, grappling with disorienting dilemmas and "wicked problems" with no clear solutions. Unknowingly, you've been trying to solve them with traditional problem-solving tools and a traditional leadership mindset, a mismatch on both counts for the intricate challenges you face. This relentless pursuit of knowledge and skills to heroically conquer these problems leads to a vicious cycle. Burnout, feelings of inadequacy (the "imposter syndrome"), and the fear of being "found out" become your unwelcome companions. Strategies that once worked now flounder, leaving you disoriented, stuck and in over your head, but it doesn't need to be this way!...
Lost at Sea in a VUCA Storm

Unveiling the Hidden Inner-Game Curriculum

Traditional leadership development focuses heavily on the "outer game" – skills and knowledge acquisition. However, the key to navigating VUCA landscapes lies in the often-overlooked "inner game" – your way of being. This course delves into this hidden curriculum, the foundation for true leadership transformation. This is a course of personal development, rather than learning, which compliments more traditional leadership skills and knowledge acquisition programs. Rather than being in over your head, you will navigate the turbulence of the VUCA ocean, not by attempting to control it's monstrous waves, but by understanding their power and skilfully surfing them!
Unveiling the Hidden Inner-Game Curriculum

Here's what will eventually await you on the other side:

This is a course for both leaders who want to develop their inner game and also executive coaches who want to better support their clients who lead in this VUCA landscape.

  • A Deep Understanding of VUCA

    Unravel the complexities of VUCA and the "wicked problems" it presents. Learn to identify these problems and approach them with the appropriate perspective and worldview.

  • Presence and Gravitas

    Develop a powerful leadership presence that commands respect and inspires action. Project an air of robustness and assuredness, even in the midst of huge uncertainty.

  • Join the Elite

    Become part of the select 15% of leaders who can navigate the complexities of the VUCA landscape and inspire people to achieve extraordinary results.

  • Leadership as a Way of Being

    Move beyond a skillset; embody leadership as a fundamental aspect of who you are. Cultivate self-awareness as well as emotional and even spiritual intelligence, thereby leading with integrity and authenticity.

  • From Hero to Humble Host

    Shift from the heroic leadership mindset, where the leader is the sole problem-solver, to a more collaborative "humble host" approach. This is an upshift to your identity; who you take yourself to be as a leader. As a host, distilling the collective intelligence and experience of all stakeholders, fostering a culture of innovation and shared ownership.

  • Resilience Under Pressure

    Build a stanch resilience to ‘bounce forward’ from setbacks with new insights and so thrive in uncertainty. Learn to navigate challenges with a developmental mindset, seeing challenges as opportunities for personal development and adaptation.

  • Equanimity, Potency and Wisdom

    Approach challenges with a calm clarity, wisdom and effectiveness. Make well-considered decisions under pressure, fostering trust and confidence across the wide range of stakeholders you work with.

  • Embracing Confrontation

    See confrontation not as something to be avoided, but a necessary and inevitable consequence of surfacing the dichotomies which inevitably arise in these wicked problems, in order that their contradictions can be transcended and integrated.

  • Collaboration Mastery

    Lead teams and wider stakeholders in a VUCA world by harnessing the experience and expertise of people. Foster a culture of open communication and psychological safety, where diverse perspectives are valued and encouraged.

Over 60 Frameworks Distilled

20 years of experience as an executive coach working with senior leaders in challenging VUCA environments (think NHS and the UK Civil Service) have been poured into this course. I've distilled over 60 developmental, systems and leadership concepts and frameworks into a cohesive narrative, making this hidden curriculum accessible to you. You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the latest thinking in leadership development, presented in a clear and actionable way. Central to this developmental agenda are the processes of waking up, growing up, cleaning up and showing up.
Over 60 Frameworks Distilled

Course curriculum

  • 1
    Welcome to the course!
    • How to use this course
  • 2
    Chapter 1: An Introduction
    • Lesson 1.1: What Is A Developmental Perspective For Leadership
    • Lesson 1.2: Why Development Is Needed
    • Lesson 1.3 Key Concepts And The Overarching Narrative
    • Lesson 1.4: Course Overview
  • 3
    Chapter 2: A VUCA World And Its Wicked Problems
    • Lesson 2.1 Seeing VUCA Systems And Waking Up To Their Illusions
    • Lesson 2.2: Categorising Problems - From Simple To Complex
    • Lesson 2.3: Diagonsing And Working With Complex Problems
  • 4
    Chapter 3: Being In Over Our Heads
    • Lesson 3.1: In Over Our Heads
  • 5
    Chapter 4: Leadership - From Hero To Host
    • Lesson 4.1: Leadership And Management
    • Lesson 4.2 Hero To Host
  • 6
    Chapter 5: A Review Of The Content So Far
    • Lesson 5.1: A Review Of The Content So Far
  • 7
    Chapter 6: Introducing Development Via The 4 Ups (Vs Learning)
    • Lesson 6.1: Introducing The 4 Ups
    • Lesson 6.2: The Nature Of Learning Versus Development
    • Lesson 6.3: Waking Up To Our Mental Models And Working Models
    • Lesson 6.4 Reflective Practice
    • Lesson 6.5: Summary of learning and development
  • 8
    Chapter 7: Growing Up
    • Lesson 7.1 An Overview Of Growing Up
    • Lesson 7.2: A Growing Up Framework
    • Lesson 7.3: Pluralism
  • 9
    Chapter 8: Cleaning Up
    • Lesson 8.1: Introducing The Process Of Cleaning Up
    • Lesson 8.2: Making Our Fears Our Agenda
    • Lesson 8.3: Working On Our Inner Critics And Imposter Syndrome
    • Lesson 8.4: Avoiding Burnout
    • Lesson 8.5: Working With Shame and Guilt
    • Lesson 8.6: A Reflective Tool To Support Cleaning Up
  • 10
    Chapter 9: Waking Up
    • Lesson 9.1: Waking Up Externally
    • Lesson 9.2: Waking Up Internally
    • Lesson 9.3: Regulating Our Autonomic Nervous System
    • Lesson 9.4: Waking Up Mindfully
  • 11
    Chapter 10: Showing Up
    • Lesson 10.1: Showing Up As A Humble Host
    • Lesson 10.2: The Qualities Of Showing Up
    • Lesson 10.3: Showing Up With Presence
    • Lesson 10.4: Showing Up With Humility, Wisdom and Morality
  • 12
    Chapter 11: Summary And Next Steps
    • Lesson 11.1: Final Summary Of The Course
    • Lesson 11.2: Next Steps

Testimonials

Thank you for the fantastic course – it’s interesting how our point of view can change the perception of how we see the environment we lead across”.


“This was fantastic, really appreciated; I want several of my lead team members to understand this”.


“Thank you Baz for this fantastic resource”.


“I wish this was taught to us before”.


“Thank you! I'm feeling positive 

for the journey ahead”.


“Thank you very much, really insightful”.


“Very informative and indeed thought provoking”.

Pricing

Over 11 hours of course content with over 200 slides (all content ©Starr Performance Limited 2024)

Your Course Leader: Baz Hartnell

  • Baz Hartnell

    Executive Coach

    Baz Hartnell

    I’m an executive coach with over 20 years of coaching experience, during which time I have coached hundreds of largely senior leaders, mostly across the UK’s NHS and the Senior Civil Service, but also in the Private and Third Sectors. Previously a senior director myself, I possess both a Masters degree in Coaching and Development and another Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA). I recognise that getting executive coaching is still a privileged developmental opportunity for many, given the cost of one to one coaching. In response to this, I have felt compelled to distil and codify into a course, the core elements of my own one-to-one executive coaching practice into a self-paced self-development format, allowing leaders to hugely accelerate their own ‘inner game’ development without needing access to their own coach.