By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 Aug 23
By Sally McCutchion and originally published on medium.com When your business is in its infancy, and it’s just you and your co-founder or maybe a small team of people who were involved since day one, consensus-think is one of the joys of working together. That time when you can all sit around one table and be fully aligned to the vision, purpose and mission is an exciting and fulfilling time. It often feels like you can read each other’s minds because you’re so close to the source moment of the business. The potency of the vision and the direction you’re heading
By Sally McCutchion and originally published on medium.com When your business is in its infancy, and it’s just you and your co-founder or maybe a small team of people who were involved since day one, consensus-think is one of the joys of working together. That time when you can all sit around one table and be fully aligned to the vision,
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Aug 23
By Travis Marsh and originally published on Lead Together Parting ways with an organization is never easy. When it comes to exiting colleagues, leaders usually walk three common paths. The first one is acting fast. If someone consistently fails to meet expectations or live by the company’s values, most managers would ask that person to leave. Others prefer to act slower and give individuals time to improve their performance and behavior on their own, which may be impossible if they don’t know what to improve. The third path is trying to fix the person by staging an intervention. If someone
By Travis Marsh and originally published on Lead Together Parting ways with an organization is never easy. When it comes to exiting colleagues, leaders usually walk three common paths. The first one is acting fast. If someone consistently fails to meet expectations or live by the company’s values, most managers would ask that person to leave. Others prefer to act
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 31 Jul 23
A response for those longing for healthy team dynamics by Samantha Slade, April Charlo, and Erika Koskela. Originally published on percolab.com Snqweylmistn is an indigenous organization in the USA, learning how to run a business that honors its traditional ways of leading. Percolab Coop Canada supports organizations to grow participatory and inclusive structure and culture based on a body of work from the book Going Horizontal. Collaborating since 2022, the two organizations feel that the challenges they are working through are common to many organizations, indigenous or not, and are co-writing a few articles based on reflections on their work.
A response for those longing for healthy team dynamics by Samantha Slade, April Charlo, and Erika Koskela. Originally published on percolab.com Snqweylmistn is an indigenous organization in the USA, learning how to run a business that honors its traditional ways of leading. Percolab Coop Canada supports organizations to grow participatory and inclusive structure and culture based on a body of
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Jul 23
By Jasper Rienstra and originally published on Synnervate Changemakers Do you know that feeling, that you’re not living life to the full? That something is a bit off? There may well be a destination or a higher purpose for you, but somehow that feels vague, and so you don’t pay much attention to these feelings. You’re not alone in this. Many people who are curious about their essence allow misgivings to hold them back. These are my own top five: 1 What am I really saying yes to? In a sense, discovering your own purpose feels like taking the red
By Jasper Rienstra and originally published on Synnervate Changemakers Do you know that feeling, that you’re not living life to the full? That something is a bit off? There may well be a destination or a higher purpose for you, but somehow that feels vague, and so you don’t pay much attention to these feelings. You’re not alone in this.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 22 Jul 23
Catherine Jaeger interviews John Thompson in this podcast. Originally published on Inspired Teams John Thompson of The PCO Group returns with his passion for unleashing intrinsic motivation, which has a critical role in the human state, and therefore plays out into a team and more broadly into an organization. When tapping into intrinsic motivation, there is “no difference between being a leader and being human” since every human has leadership within them. This principle is the foundation of John’s proposal of breaking apart the 3 roles of a traditional manager – subject matter expert, developing humans, and team organization. We
Catherine Jaeger interviews John Thompson in this podcast. Originally published on Inspired Teams John Thompson of The PCO Group returns with his passion for unleashing intrinsic motivation, which has a critical role in the human state, and therefore plays out into a team and more broadly into an organization. When tapping into intrinsic motivation, there is “no difference between being
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 22 Jul 23
By Sally McCutchion and originally published on medium.com Almost every client I’ve ever worked with, has said to me at some stage: “We need to talk about compensation…” It’s never the lead-in project, but once you start unpacking how things are working (or not working) within your business, it’s inevitable that the subject of compensation appears on the radar. How we pay our people sets the standard for value, fairness, transparency, viability and trust. …But it can also be a much feared and avoided subject on account of its innate power and emotion. So I wanted to break down the principles
By Sally McCutchion and originally published on medium.com Almost every client I’ve ever worked with, has said to me at some stage: “We need to talk about compensation…” It’s never the lead-in project, but once you start unpacking how things are working (or not working) within your business, it’s inevitable that the subject of compensation appears on the radar. How we
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Jul 23
By Radical Purpose and originally published at radicalpurpose.org “I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. — Albert Einstein, Physicist Collaboration is a fundamental part of the future of work. When we remove the Force Paradigm, it becomes clear we need new ways of seeing and interacting with each other. The new world of collaboration requires that we co-create new tools. We have co-created an open-source Collaborative Operating Agreement as a way to facilitate the development of new collaboratives. The Collaborative Project is an open-source project to co-create Needs-Paradigm-based collaboratives to demonstrate the benefits and
By Radical Purpose and originally published at radicalpurpose.org “I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. — Albert Einstein, Physicist Collaboration is a fundamental part of the future of work. When we remove the Force Paradigm, it becomes clear we need new ways of seeing and interacting with each other. The new world of collaboration
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Jul 23
Brent Lowe, Susan Basterfield and Travis Marsh co-authors of Lead Together book, discuss recruiting and self-managing organisations. Originally available on YouTube. One way or another we all learn how important a good recruiting process can be. All it takes is one bad hire… or two… or three before we realize the cost of under-investing in recruiting. The most successful teams make recruiting a top priority. For teams embracing a philosophy of leading together—such as self-management or decentralized leadership—recruiting takes on even greater importance. In this video, Lead Together co-authors Brent Lowe, Susan Basterfield and Travis Marsh share insights into how
Brent Lowe, Susan Basterfield and Travis Marsh co-authors of Lead Together book, discuss recruiting and self-managing organisations. Originally available on YouTube. One way or another we all learn how important a good recruiting process can be. All it takes is one bad hire… or two… or three before we realize the cost of under-investing in recruiting. The most successful teams
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Jun 23
By Aaron Dignan and originally published on medium.com The Ready See the book Brave New Work and this previous EE Magazine article. A new and improved tool for reinventing your organization – Part 1 Organization design is hard. Whether you’re the CEO of a global corporation, the founder of a startup, or a team leader inside one of the tens of thousands of companies that make our world turn, you’re up against one of the greatest puzzles ever conceived. We see evidence of this everywhere we look. Corporate longevity is down. Employee engagement is dismal. Leaders from every industry and
By Aaron Dignan and originally published on medium.com The Ready See the book Brave New Work and this previous EE Magazine article. A new and improved tool for reinventing your organization – Part 1 Organization design is hard. Whether you’re the CEO of a global corporation, the founder of a startup, or a team leader inside one of the tens