Category: Practice

On the balcony or down in the trees?

On the balcony or down in the trees?

Everyone is familiar with the saying “I can’t see the woods for the trees!” What do we do, though, when this happens at work? Conventional advice suggests that we should take a step back, perhaps by “getting up on the balcony”. In this article I want to explore a somewhat counter-intuitive idea – getting down …

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Shifting orientations and multiple ways of knowing

Shifting orientations and multiple ways of knowing

Increasingly new practices are emerging that enable leaders and managers and those who work with them such as coaches, facilitators and consultants to access multiple ways of knowing, operate effectively from within emerging situations and juggle the constraints, possibilities, motivations and interests.

Pre-mortem – one way to potentially avoid the untimely death of a plan or project

Pre-mortem – one way to potentially avoid the untimely death of a plan or project

We may be able to articulate what we hope/intend to happen in the future. But we know that things rarely work out precisely the way we had planned. Much of the end product is tied up in the process of implementation. Nonetheless, we crave direction and optimism if not certainty. Conducting a pre-mortem is one way to manage the risk that things will turn out to be vastly different from our original intention.