🌿🧭🌳 OD75: Build Better Organizations Better

Launching our new website, our new Youtube channel, the Facets of Change learning series and webinar + a nice mix of Strategy & Organization Goodies

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Dear readers,

Some quick updates on our side:

• We’ve recently created our ForBetterOrgs.com website for inspiring and equipping people to build better organizations better.

• It’s an open invitation to learn, connect and collaborate around strategic & organizational challenges.

• At the same time, you’ll find more information about our team, our work and our initiatives.

• We’ve also launched the For Better Orgs Youtube channel.

• We'll post clips from the conferences, webinars and workshops that we're hosting - with the aim of inspiring people to build better organizations better.

• First videos are about How to Develop as a Team with Team Chemistry, Trends in Facilitation and Facets of Change: How to Change Behavior.

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Facets of Change - Learning Series

We’re officially launching the Facets of Change Learning Series - a high-intensity learning camp with 6 hands-on workshops around behavior change, models change, culture change, planned change, continuous change, transformational change, personal change, team-level change and organization-wide change.

See details and enroll now to benefit from the early bird prices.
Besides the participation to the workshops, you’ll get:

• Lifetime access to recordings with timestamps (for easy future access to explanations, exercises and other specific workshop segments);

• Lifetime access to the Facets of Change Toolbox (Formats: PDF and Miro boards that can be used in facilitation).

Thanks to the 18 of you who signed up for the waiting list. As promised, you’ll benefit from the best price for your early support - €100 off any option.

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Facets of Change - Webinar

If you’re curious to learn more about the 9 Facets of Change, we invite you to join a 1h webinar that gives you an overview about the Facets of Change, examples, tools and some teasers for the Facets of Change Learning Series.

When? December 8th 2021, 4pm CET Paris

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Strategy & Organization Goodies

#change via Humantific:

”Before Change Happens: New Seeing Happens; New Understanding Happens; New Thinking Happens”

Snapshot from Humantific’s “Using Info Visualization to prepare for ChangeMaking”

Snapshot from the same source - explaining the value of “Information Fields”

We’re also using visualizations (“information fields”) extensively in our work for helping people build a richer, shared understanding of the challenge at hand and for using this understanding to act.

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#strategy via Strategy in Praxis:

JP Castlin reviews the work of popular strategy thinkers, like:

• Stephen Bungay’s strategic intent,

• Richard Rumelt’s guiding policy,

• Roger Martin’s where to play/how to win,

• Henry Mintzberg’s strategic perspective,

• Alexander Osterwalder’s business model canvas,

• John Kay’s concept of obliquity.

Useful for developing your own strategy vocabulary.
Food for thought for advanced strategy practitioners: Can you identify other pros & cons for each concept, besides what JP has written about?

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#orgdesign via EODF:

Designing for the Future Virtual Conference 18-19 Nov 2021

Through participative sessions we will co-develop design solutions for 4 scenarios related to 4 interesting business challenges:

• Accelerated Growth and Scale

• Wicked Problems

• Bringing it all Together: Business, Technology and People

• Radical Organisational Reinvention

For anyone who is interested in org design (and related fields), this year’s conference looks like a very good investment. Some interesting conference concepts: provocateurs, explore spaces, play spaces, how spaces.

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#coaching via Oxford Review:

Research briefing about Using AI to Enhance Coaching. Some ideas (highlights ours):

• Uses for artificial intelligence have almost unlimited possibilities to improve the quality of human life. These possibilities include applications in education, business, consultancy and healthcare.

• Artificial intelligence coaching is not yet evolved enough to completely replace face-to-face coaching or less complex forms of online coaching.

• Artificial coaching programmes provide better results when human coaches identify the problems coachees need help with and only hand the coachee over to an AI coach for a specific issue or outcome.

• Instead of leaving the development of artificial coaching programmes to computer scientists with no coaching experience, expert human coaches should contribute to help make AI coaches more effective.

We have not experienced yet co-coaching with an AI. There are signals around us that this is a growing trend. In which scenarios would you use this practice?

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This newsletter is curated by Raluca and Bülent Duagi,
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