This inventory enables you to determine the extent to which six environmental elements (and challenges) are present in your and/or your client’s work and life: (1) volatility, (2) uncertainty, (3) complexity, (4) ambiguity, (5) turbulence and (6) contradictions. A pdf copy of the copyrighted VUCA-Plus Environmental Inventory is available by clicking on the “Download” button. This inventory can be used, …

A pdf of the copyrighted Score Key for the VUCA-Plus Environmental Inventory is available by clicking on the “Download” button. This score key and accompanying inventory can be used, without charge, in work with individual coaching and consulting clients. Any use of this inventory with more than a single client must be approved by its author, William Bergquist (bill@psychology.edu). If …

There are the almost universal challenges associated with the volatility (U), uncertainty (U), complexity (C) and ambiguity (A) in our collective lives, as well as the equally as challenging turbulence and contradiction that we all encounter every day. This is the VUCA-Plus of mid-21st Century life—and it generates multiple challenges.

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