6. The current world is…
Volatile
Uncertain
Complex
Ambiguous
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7. Volatile
• Rapid technological change
• Increasing global interconnections
• Climate change
• Population growth and global age
• Income disparities
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11. A personal answer
Resiliency
• The ability to rapidly
reconfigure resources
in response to
unpredictable events.
• Organizations and
individuals must
accept uncertainty as
inevitable and
develop strategies for
resiliency
Keep moving
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14. An organizational
answer. Cont’
Change your mind
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From To
Traditional strategic
planning that happens
at specified times
• AEIOU (Anticipate, Execute, Observe…
Innovate, be Unique)
• A continuous process of sensing and rapid
response
• Build platforms for capturing signals from the
external environment and within the
organization
• Create capacity for filtering and pattern
recognition (sense-making)
Best tools: weave together human and machine
intelligence and allow for amplification of both
15. An organizational
Answer. Cont’
Next Management
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Changes!
• Thinking & Doing are
together
• Work, learning &
Innovation are together
• People, teams,
organizations:
Everybody has to learn
16. Next Management
New Learning
• Tomorrow’s managers will
need the foresight to
identify where they are
going while remaining
flexible about how they
get there
• Clarity about purpose,
method and desired end
state of a situation
There is a desperate need for
better global leaders to
navigate all the complex and
ambiguous challenges that lie
ahead
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17. Next Management. Cont’
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From To
• From building for strength • To building for resiliency
• From offshoring
• From stand-alones
• To global task arbitrage
• To new human-machine symbiosis
• From data-poor
• From face to face
• From simple
• From tangible
• To data-rich environments
• To peer to peer
• To high-resolution identity
• To intangible
• From institutional • To decentralized production
19. Corporate Responsibility
Why now?
• There is a crisis of confidence
that must be recovered.
• We are going out of financial
economics and entering the
intangible economy and
reputation, which makes its way
back to the long term
• Know How
• Reduce uncertainty
• Protects
• From influence to persuasion
• Identity (brand, experience &
meaning), membership and
reputation
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20. ¿Is there a link between
RSC and Learning?
V
U Corporate
C University
A
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22. Learning
& Development
The connection
The best companies to
work for are in part
because of their values
A company's climate is
half of its results
Learn to manage
intangibles
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24. Learning is
the first change
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“At the beginning of a change
initiative [we ask], ‘What is it
going to take to get employees
ready for these changes?’
And nine out of 10 of our clients
are going to say we need to
have some learning activities.”
Holly Miller
Senior Consultant
Towers Watson
Training: accept new ideas,
techniques and skills
27. VUCA World
Anticipate
The Towers Watson study identifies
six areas or skills, that every
organizations needs to get change
management right
1. Leading
2. Communicating
3. Learning
4. Measuring
5. Involving
6. Sustaining
H. Miller said organizational learning
is at the heart of many of these areas
“Our success is to have
things ready before
anybody asks for them”
Xavier Coll
Director HR
Caixabank, Spain
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29. The changing role
of the CLO
• CLO must be a business
person first, combining
business & L&D skills
• Driven by the need for
organizations to be as
effective and efficient as
possible
• Goals have to include
– “Hard” (e.g.: 10%
increase in sales)
– “Soft” (e.g.: better
leadership and higher
employee engagement)
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The changing
role. Cont’
of the CLO
• CLO is under a
increasingly internal &
external pressure to
deliver results
– Effective and targeted
programs
– Deliver the promised
results effectively
31. CLO
as Chief Change Officer
“When you think about the
strategy for learning and
development, the CLO’s job
is going to be to make sure
we’re helping leaders see
where their strengths are
and then helping create the
skills and development
opportunities to grow those
leaders to where they need to
be to manage the change.”
Doug Upchurch
Insights
34. Learning
for VUCA’s Workforce
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Increased competition Emerging trends
UncertaintyDifferent generations in the workforce
Globalization Complexity Shorter shelf life of knowledge
Fuel the need for
the constant
reskilling
and up-skilling
of the workforce
People expects
organization
to continuously build
the capabilities that help
them on the cutting
edge of their profession
35. Skills
for the future
workplace
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• Sense making
• Social intelligence
• Novel & Adaptive thinking
• Cross cultural competency
• Computational thinking
• New media literacy
• Transdisciplinarity
• Design mindset
• Cognitive load management
• Virtual collaboration
37. “Those of us who are managing learning functions must help leaders perform tasks that are required
today, yet equip people to cope with ambiguity and perform what will be needed tomorrow
We need to collaborate with other disciplines to create leadership models and training tools that will equip
global leaders to master new challenges
We also need to step up as global leaders ourselves”
Katherine Holt
Kyoko Seki
Global
leadership
begins with
learning
professionals
38. Learning Teams
Four Changes
1. Cultivate «being»
2. Multicultural
effectiveness
3. Appreciate individual
uniqueness in the
context of cultural
differences
4. Becoming adept at
managing paradoxes
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39. Managing
Paradoxes
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1. Strategic & Operational
2. Taking charge & Empowering
3. Results & Relationships
4. Listening & Expressing
5. Global & Local
6. Common Group & Uniqueness
7. Open mind & Decisiveness
8. Consistency & Versatility
9. Humility & Confidence
10. Doing & Being
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FutureImportance
Current CapabilitySource: BCG/EAPM 2011
Delivering on
recruiting
Recruiting the
organization
Mastering HR
processes
On-boarding &
retention of
new hires
Managing
flexibility and
labor costs
Measuring
workforce
performance
Managing CSR
Improving
employer
branding
Improving
leadership
development
Managing
talent
Transforming HR
into a strategic
partner
Becoming a
learning
organization
Managing change
& cultural
transformation
Managing work-
life balance
Improving
performance
management
& rewards Enhancing
employee
engagement
Need to act
Facing
Challenges
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49. It has to give
a meaning
to be relevant & unique
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50. AEIOU
to give a meaning
• Anticipate what it’s
coming
• Execute with simplicity
and effectiveness
• Observe what’s
happening inside and
outside your company
• Get into an Innovation
continuous process
• Do it right, and become
Unique
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53. Corporate University
& Brand
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The UC exists to serve corporate
identity and business strategies
• In charge of accompanying
changes
• Place and time where you can
learn about the organization,
business, culture, challenges
& projects
• Accompanies the
transformation
• Shapes a common vision to
address the environment
It is a guide and an accelerator
54. Brand
& Corporate University
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The brand exists to serve
corporate identity and business
strategies
• Accompanies the
transformation
• Shapes and drives a common
vision to address the
environment
It is a guide and an accelerator
55. …consumers say
they buy brands
that make them
look successful
71% of
Chinese…
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…and a
Learning
Brand can
dress you up
to be
successful
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Starting to learn
and adding in the way
whatever is necessary,
may be a strategy
in itself
Build good links that allow work
together, face challenges
together and offer shelter
Thus, it’s easier to be flexible
and accept the unknown
“And together, develop the
forces in charge of finding
solutions”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
58. Cristián Saracco
cristian@allegro234.net
+34 650 487 340
Roberta Larocca
roberta@allegro234.net
+34 616 791 182
Las Cañas, 13
28043 Madrid
España
www.allegro234.net
Based in Madrid
We work globally with leading
brands and creative people
Our purpose is to
Shape compelling
businesses
We create sustainable long-
lasting value for our clients
through developing and
revitalizing meaningful and
familiar brand experiences, for
each key audience, at every
touch-point
with the clear focus on
building
Timeless brands
from the future
We anticipate the patterns to
create landmarks and
metaphors with a personal
touch, mastering the details,
empowering the sense of
harmony and integration
and stressing our little
difference of being
Master craftspeople
building brands
We protect and nurtured our clients'
traditions and values, while evolving
into a contemporary global venture