Inspiring engagement and shared responsibility for personal & organisational success
- Do you feel that despite everyone's best efforts your organisation often wades through treacle when it could soar to the heights?
- Do you get frustrated at the gap between the potential for the group and what actually gets delivered?
- What if your organisation were characterized by self-organisation and shared responsibility and enthusiasm, rather than driven by monitoring and control?
This workshop will look at the conditions where people naturally connect with what’s important in business and in life. It will explore how to create these conditions and to inspire personal resourcefulness, shared responsibility and co-creation in our workplaces and community organisations.
We will bring in ancient wisdom and latest management science, including:
- Drawing insight from human systems dynamics, enabling wisdom from nature and living systems to be transferred into modern organisations
- Learning from ancient community design and design of buildings and spaces
- Consideration of how the conditions needed for personal transformation can be brought into group settings.
The workshop will help you to:
- Create enabling environments that transform organisational effectiveness and bring out the best in people - including ourselves;
- create environments that bring people together, bring out the best in them and where things happen.
- Stimulate creativity, innovation, freedom, shared responsibility and self organisation.
Who should attend: This participative, forward thinking workshop is for leaders and change agents who seek to catalyse high impact and sustainable change in a constantly shifting and unpredictable environment.
Concessionary places may be available on request.
Workshop leaders:
Esther Ridsdale is co-founder of the Civil Society Forum. She brings 20 years experience in personal and organisational development, outdoor and community activism. Her passion is supporting individuals and organisations in all sectors to tune in to the bigger picture and take participative approaches to engaging everyone in addressing complex challenges, and making a positive and life-enhancing impact for the benefit of all. She works was a coach, organiser, facilitator, consultant, trainer and social activist. She is an accredited human systems dynamics practitioner and as a personal coach, co-leader of retreats, youth leader, ski instructor and mountain leader she also works to support groups to tap into their individual and combined potential in all areas of their lives.
Patrick Andrews is a business adviser, facilitator and poet, with over 25 years experience in the private and not-for-profit sectors. He started his career as a corporate lawyer, handling international acquisitions and joint ventures in Russia, China and elsewhere. He became increasingly interested in the underlying conditions that create business success, and he quit the law to explore alternative approaches to business management and governance. These days he helps enterprises become conscious of how their structures and processes drive their behaviour. He is on the board of eco-car company Riversimple and is a visiting lecturer at Imperial College and Winchester Business School.
