Working Better Together

This week I’m feeling a mixture of pride, relief and excitement to be putting my new website out into the world. Here it is! I hope you like it, find it useful and that it will help us stay connected and in conversation.

As anyone who’s done this work will know, creating a new website is a HUGE task. The website itself is a representation of a much deeper exploration. It required me to carefully consider my own personal and professional experience in relation to what is needed now in the world of work and what I can offer to help create more healthy and sustainable organisations. 

Supporting organisations to build on the strengths of diversity and inclusion has always been core to my work. It remains so – with a new focus: Building the inclusive relationships needed so that people from all backgrounds feel connected and supported to thrive through complexity, uncertainty and change.

The impact of our changing, complex and uncertain context on organisations and on the people within them is the subject of much current discussion.

It requires us to understand, think, act and lead in new and often unfamiliar ways. There is no one right answer, no linear path and no single expert. We are often asked to do more with the same or less. This can create anxiety and resistance within us and those around us.  In this environment, organisations survive and thrive only if the people within them are valued and heard and collectively supported to succeed and flourish. Like the amazing natural sight of starlings murmuration’s, we understand and navigate change best as people working better together.

If you’re working in or with change, transformation, uncertainty or complexity, I offer you six questions to consider as a way of helping you tap into the wisdom of the diversity of people in your system and how you can move forward working better together:

1.     Who really cares about this, who might be resistant and what can we learn from both?

2.     Who has insights and ideas we can draw on that will give us different perspectives, approaches and experiences, that we hear or listen to least often?

3.     Who needs to be involved and how, to help create a really great outcome?

4.     What have we learnt from listening to and understanding similar and different perspectives?

5.     What is it that everyone needs or cares about, that brings us all together?

6.     What does this all mean for our vision, ambition and next steps?

I’d love to hear from you! Get in touch here if you’d like to know more about how I can help you in working better together or to stay connected.