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Volatile

VUCA: Volatile Uncertain Complicated and Ambiguous

The rate of technology change far outstrips society’s ability to adapt.

Conventional ways of working cannot adjust fast enough. Technology gives an advantage to new disruptive competitors, and strains your existing capabilities.

Teal Unicorn introduces Open approaches to increase the pace of organisational advancement.

We work rapidly and iteratively in short-term low-risk engagements to move with you.

Uncertain

VUCA: Volatile Uncertain Complicated and Ambiguous

The future is unpredictable, and conditions change faster than you can plan for them.

Conventional ways of working assume predictability: plan, do, measure. This is too slow and inflexible: it delivers out-of-date requirements.

We introduce incremental ways of working, and flexible ways of planning and strategising.

We don’t create detailed project plans for our engagements - that wastes your money. We plan next steps and longer term targets: 3 months and 3 years, not in between.

Complicated

VUCA: Volatile Uncertain Complicated* and Ambiguous
* Most people say "complex" in VUCA, we prefer to say "complicated" - all of VUCA adds up to complex in the modern sense of the word. Complicated refers to the networked, vast, ungraspable sense of complexity. "Complex" means so much more now.

Understanding of the complex VUCA nature of the world, including our work systems, is new thinking which is expanding every decade.

Conventional ways of working are still based on simple, linear models which worked well in a slower, more predictable past, but will not in the future. For most organisations, they are failing already.

We coach and teach complexity to quickly grow awareness and understanding, and the techniques to improve work.

We have our own models of complex work systems and how to advance them, which we apply to improving your organisation.

Ambiguous

VUCA: Volatile Uncertain Complex and Ambiguous

Certainty about what to do is illusory (don’t buy it). You can only know by trying. Complex systems are unclear until you explore them.

Conventional ways of working expect known models and templates - codified standardised work. They always struggle to capture it.

We introduce experimental behaviour and programmes to manage it, to capture the learnings, and to advance the organisation.

We don’t know what will work for you; we experiment with the engagement too, to optimise our value.

We are Teal Unicorn

...partners in life and work.

We promote new ways of management in a VUCA world, to make work better: better results, better lives, better society.

We provide Consulting, Training, Coaching, and Content.

We operate in New Zealand, Vietnam, all over Asia/Pacific, and online around the world.

Consulting and advice

We can help:
develop leadership, helping managers and executives understand the advanced ways of managing, including servant management and Agile principles

introduce new ways of working and managing: coaching management and staff to empowerment, collaboration, agility, and flow

build culture, through attention to leadership, flourishing, space, empowerment, community and communications

Training and workshops

Authentic, powerful, useful: our popular and successful training in new ways of work and management challenges conventional beliefs and practices of the workplace, to open you up to greater workplace agility and humanity.

We provide our own training that is a blend of lectures, workshops, activities, games, and simulations, to provide a rich learning experience for students.

Coaching

In addition to general consulting, Teal Unicorn provides practical, tactical management coaching to get results with the new advanced ways of managing.

If you have a manager finding their way as the organisation advances, or are yourself still unpacking what it means, Teal Unicorn will provide reflection, advice, insight, and principles.

Content

We provide written content, presentations, and discussions.

When you source content from us, you get a freshness of viewpoint, an independence of opinion, and an originality of ideas that you won't find in many other providers of business content. Our material is unique. If desired, it is also provocative and quirky.