Input-Referate Talent Management Stage
25. März - 10:00–10:30 Uhr
From Silos to Synergy: Leading Through Collaboration in a Distributed World
In an era shaped by VUCA/BANI dynamics, accelerating digitalisation and AI, and increasingly multi-generational, multi-cultural, and highly diverse workplaces, traditional leadership models are reaching their limits. Hierarchies alone can no longer keep pace with the speed, complexity and ambiguity organisations face.
This session explores why collaboration and distributed leadership have become critical capabilities—not “nice to have” behaviours, but strategic imperatives for organisational performance and resilience.
Participants will examine how:
- Decision-making and leadership are increasingly distributed across networks, projects and ecosystems
- AI and digital tools are reshaping not only how we work, but how influence and authority are exercised
- Diversity of perspectives, when effectively harnessed, becomes a powerful driver of innovation and engagement
- Performance now depends less on individual brilliance and more on the ability to mobilise the collective
Drawing on real-world organisational examples and leadership development practice, the session will highlight:
- The mindset shifts required to move from control to contribution
- The skills leaders need to influence without authority and collaborate across boundaries
- The conditions organisations must create to enable trust, shared ownership and collective intelligence
The talk will leave participants with a renewed understanding of what it means to lead when leadership is no longer confined to roles or titles, and with practical insights into how HR and L&D can actively support the development of collaboration and cross-functional leadership at scale.
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