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Thriving in VUCA: Mastering Agility for Today's Dynamic World

Lecturer iconLouise Phua (Ms)
Course Duration: 14 hours
Singaporean/PR
AEN Member
Total Course Fee
S$218.00
Non-AEN Member
Total Course Fee
S$654.00
Others
Total Course Fee
S$2180.00

*The fee is inclusive of prevailing GST and subject to changes.

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This session will be conducted face-to-face at IAL. More details will be sent to the confirmed registrants.

What Is The Session About?

Learning agility is the cornerstone of personal and professional success, empowering individuals to rapidly acquire new skills, excel in their roles, and remain employable in ever-evolving environments. It fosters a willingness to learn new competencies to perform under tough or different conditions, and ability to learn from experience and draw on past experience.

Agile learners actively reflect on their experiences—both successes and failures; extracting valuable lessons and applying them creatively to new situations; turning every challenge into an opportunity for growth.

This course is focused on equipping individuals with the skills needed to excel in an environment characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). You will acquire the mindset, skillset and toolset to develop the various facets of learning agility in the area of CHANGE agility, RESULT agility, MENTAL agility, PEOPLE agility, and SELF-AWARENESS.

Whether it is fostering a mindset of flexibility, speed, and resilience, the essential traits for thriving in today's fast-paced world or deploying different approaches which enable continuous learning to drive self-development, look no further, this is the course for you.

Participants will embark on a transformative journey, combining experiential learning with practical application, engaging them physically, emotionally, and cognitively through interactive activities, debriefing sessions, and structured content delivery, emerging from this course with practical skills and a growth mindset for success.

What Does The Session Cover?

At the end of the course, you should be able to:
Apply the five dimensions of learning agility to your career and life.
Apply knowledge of generational learning styles differences to identify suitable learning strategies.
Adapt learning approaches to meet the changing demands of your current job, to be future-ready in navigating change in your work life.
 
And to nurture:
Innovative Problem-Solving: Learn to approach complex problems with creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.
Diversity and Inclusion: Develop empathy and understanding towards individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, enhancing collaboration and team effectiveness.
Adaptability and Resilience: Embrace uncertainty and change, cultivating a readiness to tackle the unknown and pivot when necessary.
Continuous Improvement: constantly seeking new opportunities for personal and professional development.
Self-awareness and Impact: Gain insight into your own skills and behaviors, impact on the organisation and others.

Who Is It Suitable For?

Professionals seeking to thrive in today's dynamic professional landscape prioritise cultivating learning agility essential traits, and a quick-thinking mindset. By doing so, they position themselves as indispensable assets in any workplace, empowering themselves to navigate rapid shifts in technology, markets, and organisational dynamics effectively.

Course Funding and Policies

Payment

Please proceed to make payment via eNets/credit card (VISA or MasterCard) at the end of the registration process. Kindly note that the system will automatically cancel the registration if full payment has not been successfully processed by 11.59pm (Singapore Time) on the same day of the registration. You will have to reapply for the course, subject to availability of vacancy at the point of your re-registration.

Additional Funding Available, If Applicable

Singaporeans aged 25 years old and above are eligible for SkillsFuture Credit which can be used to offset the selected programmes' fees for self-sponsored registrations only.


Please note the submission period for your SFC claim via MySkillsFuture needs to be within 60 days before the course start date (date inclusive). If your course start date is more than 60 days from the date of SFC application, the SSG-SFC portal would reject your application. In this case, you would need to pay the full course fees at the end of your course application.


This course is UTAP funded too!

Rescheduling

Request for rescheduling imust be submitted to IAL 2 weeks before the commencement of programme. Reschedule requests that come mid-way through training has to be supported by valid reasons; substantiated by references as evidence; such as a doctor's note; or a hospitalization chit.


Please submit your request to reschedule your course at MyIAL. A non-refundable administrative fee of S$54.50 w/GST ($50) applies for the request and the next available slot will be offered

Withdrawal

Request for withdrawal from a programme is subjected to review by IAL and the decision is final. IAL reserves the right to request for supporting document(s). A non-refundable administration fee of S$54.50 w/GST ($50) is applicable for withdrawal request. If the withdrawal notice is given less than 2 weeks before the programme start date, the paid fees will not be refunded.

Corporate Run

For dedicated corporate runs with a contract signed with IAL, billing and payment will follow the terms of the signed contract. Otherwise, payment would be expected upon registration.

About The Speaker

Louise Phua (Ms)

Louise Phua (Ms)

Regional Director and Learning Designer | AIMS International Singapore Pte Ltd

Louise Phua has about 20 years' experience in corporate and consulting organisations. With extensive experience in multi-national human resources service providers, she is deeply familiar with talent acquisition and talent management in Asia. Louise is a Talent Coach, Facilitator, Trainer and Learning Designer.


Well-versed in talent management in Asia Pacific. she helps international companies to find and grow their talent and organisations. Her early career was in marketing and the media and in recent years, she has stints as a Learning Designer.She adopts a holistic and integrated approach to adult learning based on the Three Dimensions of Learning (Illeris, 2008). She has been involved in curriculum and instructional design for learning projects targeted at young adults, mid-career professionals and elderly learners. Her recent clients include Airbus, Nanyang Technological University, Sephora, Singapore Tourism Board, Temasek Polytechnic and counting.