Many new graduates will be walking into industries and organizations that are in the throes of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity). The leading expertise and perspective from tmany graduate programs will be a brilliant foundation. At the same time VUCA requires new attitudes and new skills, many of which are non-traditional and some of which are downright counter-intuitive. In this presentation I share a set of principles for thriving in the new VUCA-based healthcare environment that she has observed among the strongest and most inspiring leaders.

1. Leading in VUCA: Principals
for Emerging Leaders
`Eva McLellan B.Sc (Hon), M.Biotech

2. Let’s imagine for a minute…

3. What is VUCA?
-
• Volatility
• Uncertainty
• Complexity
• Ambiguity

4. Principles for
Career Ascent
Principles for
Leading Teams
Principles for
Personal
Development
Based on my experience … 3 sets of personal
principles in VUCA

5. Personal Development

6. Personal Development
It all starts with YOU
Self
Awareness:
Need to dig
deep to What
do you stand
for? Your moral
compass.
Aspirational
Career Vision:
What do you
want to achieve
and why? What
are you willing
to trade-off?
Sacrifice?
Regular
Reflection:
Step back
regularly to
reflect about
what is
working? what
isn’t? and what I
do about it?

7. Personal Development
Four clusters of tools I have found valuable
Self Awareness Tools :
• MBTI: Better understand yourself
• Insights discovery: Understand
how to best engage with others
• SDI personality test: Understand
how your behavior changes
during stress
• Strength finder 2.0: Build on
your strengths
• 360 evolution – understand
impressions you make on others.
Formal and/or informal, sample
forms available online
Systems
Thinking Tools:
• Decision
Criteria
• Mind maps
Inner Game
Tools: Head
Space App
• Courage
• Head Space
App
Reading Tools:
• Discover your
True North, Bill
George
• Never Eat Alone,
Keith Ferrazzi
• Understanding
Yourself, and
Others, Linda
Berens

8. Leading Teams

9. Leading teams in VUCA
Four bedrock principles
1. Focus on core communication is power
– Clear Vision
– Clear Aim
– Team Charter
2. Facilitate anticipation in your team by:
– Harness diversity of each individual
– Boundary spanning - authentic collaboration across boundaries
3. Coach individuals to embrace the challenge inherit in VUCA
– Some of the best leaders coach individuals to become comfortable to live
within the question
– If I fail, I will come back with learnings for you = you win
– If I success = you win
4. Learn from GEESE

10. Leading teams in VUCA
Learn from GEESE
• Guide
• Encourage
• Empathize
• Synergize
• Empower

11. Career Ascent

12. “Skate to where the puck is
going, not where it has been.”
- Wayne Gretzky

13. Where does my thinking on careers comes
from?
My
experience
(local and
global)
Top
leaders in
the
industry
Careers of
my
strongest
peers

14. Personal (and in progress) principles for
careers in VUCA
1. Be clear and steadfast about your true north.
2. Follow the blue ocean strategy; there is less
competition and more opportunity.
3. Develop a personal objectives cascade and review
it quarterly.
4. Take calculated risks. Develop your decision criteria
for career moves and then stick to them.
5. Find a mentor and a sponsor.
6. Ask for feedback, regularly.
7. Be a sponge; be genuinely curious, listen deeply,
and apply learnings consistently.

15. Things I’ve absorbed and have stuck with
me…
Humility
FISO
Trends watch
Unique value
SCARF Model
Confidence
CourageAnticipate
Prove yourself
Credibility
Internal
Consultant
Curiosity
Intellectual capital

16. The future is bright… enjoy the ride!

17. Contact:
mclellaneva.k@gmail.com
Questions?