Finding Gelassenheit to deal with a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment

Tomorrow looks less like today, than yesterday ever did! Rapid change is the only certainty in our contemporary world. There’s already an acronym to sum up the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous lives we live: VUCA. Now there’s a concept that occupies the space between “resilience” and “composure” – between “keeping your cool” and “being Zen” about things: gelassenheit is a German word that fits the zeitgeist of complex organizations and omnipresent technologies giving us constant updates on constant change.

Trying to anticipate every unforeseeable contingency or overworking yourself to compensate can only lead to burnout. A competent manager stays aware of change, abreast of circumstances, alert for risks, and apprehensive of short-lived trends – but takes developments with distance in order to steer their companies in the right direction, otherwise a wreck could lie around the next bend.

With our Worklife 3.0 training we teach you about gelassenheit, taking a step back and being a better judge of the problems that lie ahead. Not panicking is not easy: it’s a skill and it can be learned.