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Special Workshop: Leading in the "Panic Zone"
Joint program by the Frankfurt School of Management & WU Executive Academy
We tailor each of our Special Workshops to the specific needs and requirements of the organization in question and deliver it in collaboration with renowned experts as part of a wider training program or module.
Understand leadership by expanding your comfort zone
Two Cities. Two Challenges. This exciting and rewarding workshop – jointly designed and delivered by highly-renowned faculty and experts of WU Vienna and Frankfurt School - offers new perspectives on and unique experiences with crucial leadership skills. Leading in the "Panic Zone" is an innovative and advanced leadership programme.
Frankfurt: We start with exploring the relevance and irrelevance of leaders and the role of self-leadership through established and distinct leadership logics:
- The logic of consequence
- The logic of appropriateness
- The logic of absurdity. (The “CAA-logic“).
Through mini-lectures, case discussions and exercises we draw implications and explore opportunities for leading in situations where leaders are pushed into the panic zone (e.g., where the demands of the situation exceed the knowledge and experience of the leader).
Vienna: Building upon and challenging your insights from the Frankfurt program, we expose you to the immediate experience and understanding of your individual leadership impact: Conducting the Leadership Orchestra will improve your poise when facing the unexpected. Through additional mini-lectures and exercises we further strengthen the convincing and non-contradictory communication of expectations to your team.
Schedule
In total 3 days (1,5 Days in Frankfurt. 1,5 Days in Vienna)
Target Group
Bold Leaders. No prior musical training required
Topics
Frankfurt – Day 1
The next zone of proximal development
- Comfort vs. stretch vs. panic zone
- Knowledge, experience and beyond
- Leading in the panic zone
Self-leadership and fall from grace
- Exercises
Reflection: How are you going to lead when you face the unexpected?
Case Study and Discussion:
Leading in the panic zone: Sensegiving and sensemaking during the Pearl Jam concert accident
Team exercise
- Building team skills in the panic zone
- How to pool resources of not knowing
- Debrief
Taking it back home
- Key lessons from the day. The logic of CAA
Frankfurt – Day 2
Jumping into cold water: Leadership Orchestra I
- Conducting exercises with very short preparation
- How to lead an expert team in an unknown field
- Learning from conductors, orchestras and performers for self management in front of the audience
Interval exercise:
MP3-training for conducting
Vienna – Day 3
Swimming in the cold water: Leadership Orchestra II
- Conducting session with professional string quartet
- Using team’s informal leadership for managing troubles
- The role of personal appearance for establishing trust and stability
- Developing an individual ritual for being confident in challenging situations
Vienna Day 4
Case Study and Discussion
Orchestrating support when there are doubts and unknowns: The Nelson Mandela-way
Wrap up
- The relevance and irrelevance of leaders and leadership
Faculty
Lorenz Huber
Conductor, Trainer, Business Coach | Austria
- Conducting and leading
- Learning Organization
- Teambuilding
Prof. Claus Rerup
Professor of Management | Frankfurt School of Finance & Management | Visiting Professor of Strategy at University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland
Please contact our Program Manager Christina Knopf at christina.knopf(at)wu.ac.at or schedule a consultation to learn more about the Leadership Development program.
