[EVENT SPEAKERS DIARY]
Developing Transformation
Ready Leadership
and Workforce using
Transformational Learning
Vikas Jain
Founder of Adhyan Group
Only Survival strategy in Highly Disruptive VUCA World
I
n the VUCA world i.e. a world,
which is vulnerable, uncertain,
complex and ambiguous, existing
change management approaches
would not be suffi cient for survival.
Future ready organisations need to
constantly evolve themselves with
the help of transformative mindset.
Eric Hoffer once said, “In a world of
change, the learners shall inherit
the earth while the learned shall
fi nd themselves perfectly suited for
a world that no longer exists.” The
transformation ready organisations
need to have transformation
ready leadership to lead the
transformation.
To develop transformation
ready leadership, our L&D process
is required to evolve at the same
pace. Transformational Learning is
an approach to develop leadership
and workforce, with higher level of
learning agility, by utilising the best
practices of ‘Learning Principles’
along with ‘New age learning
tools and resources in the Digital
World”. Transformational learning
also covers the best practices of
‘Self Directed Learning’ which is
transforming the Education system.
Especially for early leaders,
transition from Manager to Leader
requires high magnitude of change
in terms of Knowledge, Skills, and
Attitude. Hence, learning agility
of early leaders needs to be very
high to keep pace with the changing
expectations and increased work
pressure.
Requirement for constantly
upskilling the workforce is also
extremely essential in the fast
changing environment. Shelf life
of skills, that is duration for which
a skill remains relevant, is getting
shorter day by day. As per various
researches, around 50 percent of
the job profi les and relevant skill
sets will no longer exist in near
future. Hence, organisations are
required to setup mechanism to hire
a learning agile workforce as well as
nurture learning agility in existing
workforce.
As per my research, which also
includes personal interaction with
world leaders, while authoring the
book The Secret Behind Super-
Achievers: Self-Education, I realised
that leaders are very intensive
learners. Bill Gates, the founder of
Microsoft is termed college-dropout
as per “Current Education System”,
but if you follow his lifestyle and
social media, you will fi nd that he is
an Intensive Learner. As I frequently
say, “Bill Gates might be a college
dropout but not learning dropout”.
There are many such eminent
persons and if you look closely,
their lifestyle and communication
would refl ect transformational
learning. I am very sure that with
transformational learning, one not
just manages change for better but
can become the change maker. P & M
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| Vol. 9 Issue 6 • Sep-Oct 2018, Noida / Pre-Event Edition