The VUCA environment is a concept created by the North American military in the 1990s, by the United States Army War College after the Cold War.
This term has begun to be used in organizations to refer to a resource to create adaptation strategies to the new normal.
What do we understand by VUCA environment?
VUCA is an acronym used to describe or reflect:
In some business or educational institutions, attempts are made to transfer this concept to all levels because they take seriously the importance of starting preparation for the future, with the need to have personnel working in their work spaces with new talents and new knowledge that allows them to adapt to the new work standard, managed to cope with the situations and unforeseen events that arise in the workplace.
Its application in the face of crises and changes
The figure of positive leadership is essential for adapting to the changes that are required in the current situation affected by the Coronavirus. For this purpose to be achieved, Some companies have started development programs based on this approach to generate well-being in areas of the lives of its collaborators.
These programs promote talents such as: Resilience, Optimism, Social Skills, Patience, Interpersonal Skills, Collaboration, and Teamwork, to name a few.
These talents have always been necessary to achieve an environment of healthy coexistence in work environments, and now they are constituted as a necessary resource to adapt to new changes that arise unexpectedly
Thus, companies are facing the challenge of training and/or purging, hiring new talent or promoting personnel who fill these talents in key development positions for business objectives.
However, Not all companies provide training support , and they will have to resort to looking for the right person in a timely manner, attending coaching sessions, psychotherapy, and courses, if their finances allow them to attend any of this professional advice. These are some service options for those who want to take care of their work or entrepreneurial performance, maintaining an active life at work.
The challenge of adapting to the new
Because life requires us to adapt and overcome frustration in the face of unexpected changes, in many areas of our lives we can suffer repercussions mainly of an emotional nature; This makes it necessary to develop psychological conditions such as empathy, flexibility, tolerance, self-motivation, perseverance, emotional self-control.
These are important skills and predispositions, especially in the case of families that are affected by adaptation to teleworking, unemployment, and other difficulties.
I want to highlight the amazing ability of families to overcome these situations, adapting new forms of action that they generally know how to apply from their strengths when they felt that they could no longer face the problems within their homes, with work and their children; In many cases they managed to build learning scenarios appropriate to the requirements of each family member.
Hence arises the need to adopt a life model that allows us to get the best from an uncertain environment with rapid changes, and scenarios that lead us to create the problems presented as challenges.
In the face of crises like COVID-19, We will have to modify the way we are used to thinking and acting , carrying out our daily lives differently. Using health professionals, articles, and all types of scientific information sources that are available to everyone on the Internet, by professionals who are offering new learning and better routes to accompany the growth of our children and of us as adults in this reality that we have had to live.