Overview
To thrive and not just survive in the 21st century world, organisations of every kind must be ambidextrous! What does that mean in practice?
Every day leaders and teams must make a choice, a choice to be better by building their current capabilities and skills, and refining their systems and ways of working.
At the same time, they must also be creating the space and mindset for the future.
We call this being ambidextrous, being highly focused on delivering today’s outcomes, and being future-fit and ready for the challenges of tomorrow.
During this workshop, we will apply the ambidextrous organisation model of thinking, to identify how we get our organisations to move beyond business as usual.
An expert Industry panel will also share powerful real time case studies that provide insights into how the workshop tools and processes can drive significant structural change and transformation in government agencies, in large traditional businesses, and also in the nimble start up space. The Panel’s expertise is local, national and global!
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During this workshop, we apply the ambidextrous organisation model of thinking.
Ambidexterity is the ability of senior leaders to simultaneously manage the existing core businesses - maintaining stability, ensuring that products and services are reliable and consistent in quality, and overseeing incremental improvement - and to pursue new opportunities, specifically, nurturing experimentation and discontinuous change through the innovation streams.
This is a powerful way to be enabling change, as it recognises the ‘now’ and helps us to be better at current goals, and it also puts in place the culture and people capabilities to thrive in the future, particularly as we accelerate towards digital. The future of the digital enterprise is characterised by the ability to optimise and leverage existing digital assets, while at the same time exploiting new technologies in the pursuit of innovative value creation.
Who should participate?
This one-day workshop has been designed for leaders and managers who are tasked with making significant strategic, operational and cultural changes in their teams.
This workshop is also highly valuable to those who need to enact and deliver the transformation projects in their teams, departments and the broader organisational environment.
Your expert facilitators Dr Tony Peloso + Industry Panel
Facilitator
Dr Tony Peloso works tirelessly in the innovation space, using ambidextrous thinking and the strategy diamond to help achieve structural and culture change in organisations. He and enabling teams have enacted change in organisations such as Honeywell Aeronautical, Airbus Australia, Department of Defence Leading for Reform, Queensland Public Service Commission ‘Working for Queensland’ program, JBS Australia, and also major national capability development programs such as the Public Sector Management Program.
Tony also is a graduate and facilitator coach in the Stanford Business School Executive Education Leading for Chance and Organizational Renewal intensive. Tony has regularly delivered in the Arizona State University WP Carey Online MBA program in the marketing strategy and service innovation space.
Industry Panel Members
Peta Ellis, panel host, is a national expert in public and private sector innovation. Peta has driven success in her own businesses, as well as in her role as CEO of River city Labs, an initiative that was founded by Steve Baxter of SharkTank fame. Peta is also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Ipswich Girl’s Grammar School and a mentor and change driver at the QUT Foundry and #QUTEntrepreneurship.
Graham Yerbury,General Manager, Performance, Risk and Finance at CleanCo Queensland, has global leadership, innovation and transformation experience at corporate giants in the energy industry, and is now working on the transformation of energy creation and transmission in Queensland.
Rowan Grant,Co-Founder of Full Circle Venture Fund, a fund that has supported some of Australia’s most successful tech startups. Rowan has invaluable experience within the nimble and risky start up space.
Core concepts
This workshop enables you to:
- Plan for the balancing act of delivering on the present, and exploring and getting ready for the future.
- Apply a decision-making framework to help you to understand the types of decisions and subsequent actions necessary to deliver on those decisions.
- Using the strategy diamond, conduct a performance and opportunity audit, to determine the structural and cultural changes necessary to develop an ambidextrous mindset and embed this in your teams.
- Using scenario thinking and ‘what if’ tools, to help position yourself and your teams to safely ‘see’ the future and practice change!
Details
Where and when
QUT Executive Education Centre
Level 4, B Block, QUT Gardens Point
2 George St
Brisbane QLD 4001
25 February 2020, 9:00am - 4:30pm (registration from 8:45am)
Certification
At the end of the course, you'll receive a Certificate of Attendance documenting your participation in the course.
Cost
| Registration type | Cost |
|---|---|
| Early Bird registration (close 11 February 2020) | $790 (GST included) |
| Standard registration (close 20 February 2020) | $880 (GST included) |
| Alumni registration | $660 (GST included) |
| Group registration (5 or more) | $790 (GST included) per person |
Fees include: course materials, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
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