Free Graphic: Values > Culture > Performance
Free graphic: How shared Values contribute to Culture and Performance This is a graphic I created for a client; I was facilitating a workshop where we were exploring organisational values, how they might inform people’s work on a daily, practical level, and helping them choose the top three for internal use (inducting new staff and […]
Brexit & Shift: How can we transform the workplace together? Thurs 14 July, London
In response to the shock, division and disaray unleashed by the Brexit referendum, we feel it is essential to make space for people to come together. This is a participant-led ‘Open Space’ event, so the experience and discussions you have is up to you. But with many people distracted from fancy notions of reinventing work by very real and immediate worry, fear, anger, despondency this is your time to let off steam, ask big questions, get support and support others, or get constructive.
Building Enthusiastic Teams with Sociocracy, Greece, 2 – 9 Sept 2016
Want to solve many of the problems commonly faced in the workplace? Want to be more self organised and collaborative? Feel like you’re not getting the best from yourself or your colleagues? 1 week learn & play retreat at the stunning Pelion Centre, Mount Pelion, Thessaly, Greece – part of the Kalikalos holistic education network. Just €400 including food and shared accommodation, and plenty of time for snorkelling and exploring.
Tues 10th May 16: Building Enthusiastic Teams With Sociocracy
Tue 10 May 2016: Building Enthusiastic Teams with Sociocracy – a workshop with Martin Grimshaw, central London.
Get the basics of using and implementing tools for working smarter together: collaborative decision making in which everyone can participate and that harnesses everyone’s ingenuity, innovation every day, continuous improvement, fixing the hierarchy, transforming differing opinions into a resource, and more efficient meetings.
Thurs 29 – Fri 30 October ’15: Deep shift and radical innovation with Open Space
An experiential 2 day co-learning workshop: Brighton, with Martin Grimshaw and Francois Knuchel. The art of hosting participant-led unConferences, solving complex problems, accelerating action, leading change in organisations, and hosting conversations that matter. #OpenSpaceTech
Thurs 20 – Fri 21 August ’15: Deep shift and radical innovation with Open Space
Experiential 2 day co-learning workshop: Brighton, with Martin Grimshaw and Francois Knuchel.
The art of hosting participant-led unConferences, solving complex problems, accelerating action, leading change in organisations, and hosting conversations that matter.
Do you want a way to rapidly launch new projects, bring participation, engagement, equality and inclusion to your organisation or event? To harness collective ingenuity for problem solving? To lead transformation that is real and lasting? To drive innovation?
Learn how to organise and facilitate gatherings using Open Space Technology, a method by which a large group of people can organise themselves into a conference….
Friday 12 June ’15: Unleash the people with Open Space
Workshop: The art of hosting participant-led unConferences, solving complex problems, accelerating action, leading change in organisations, and hosting conversations that matter. An experiential co-learning workshop: London, one day, with Martin Grimshaw and Francois Knuchel. Do you want a way to rapidly launch new projects, bring participation, engagement, equality and inclusion to your organisation or event? To harness collective ingenuity for problem solving? To lead transformation that is real and lasting? To drive innovation? Learn how to design and facilitate gatherings using Open Space Technology, a method by which a large group of people can organise themselves….
Beyond hierarchy: Sociocracy, responsive organisations and creative authority
Response by Francois Knuchel to Tom Nixon and Charles Davies’s interesting blog Beyond hierarchy & holacracy: Truly responsive organisations love authority, explaining Sociocracy’s approach to creative authority and empowering people to get on and do stuff.
What is Open Space?
Open Space Technology, commonly Open Space, is a social technology, a tool for helping people to rally around a shared challenge, with minimum obstacles and maximum efficiency. It is used to organise meetings, gatherings, conferences, problem solving and summits in which everyone has the opportunity to participate on their own terms…
Why coercion doesn’t work
As any parent knows, as soon as a child starts to develop a sense of identity, they start to assert their boundaries and free will by saying No. Human nature being what it is, we have an innate hardwired resistance to change and to being told what to do. In the workplace getting others to do what is wanted of them, and getting them to engage, care and want it, is known as ‘achieving buy-in.’ It is the classic and everyday challenge faced by leadership…
Organisational metamorphosis Haiku
From storms, renewal comes,
As dreams whisper tomorrows,
Metamorphosis is born.
4 Tweaks For a Healthier Team
Dysfunctional organisations cause stress that impacts on 98% of UK employees. Here’s 4 simple tweaks to help your team enjoy work more.
The Good Chef
“The good chef (chief) walks around her kitchen, with a clean apron and a pocket full of spoons”. I love this quote, that my friend Louis shared with me. Apparently it came from a local chef he knows, but for me it says a lot about Facilitative Leadership and Collaborative Governance. It talks to me […]
Leadership and Tao Te Ching
I really like this quote. I’ve been using it a bit recently while teaching and explaining Facilitative Leadership Simple. The Master doesn’t talk, she acts. When her work is done, the people say, “Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!” – Adapted, from Tao Te Ching (17)