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What if leadership was not left to chance but carefully engineered?
Not dependent on charisma. Not based on who talks the loudest. But built through a structured, repeatable, scalable system.
In this episode of the LEAD Series, we explore the powerful 9-Pillar Model of Leadership Development practiced by Infosys — one of India’s most respected global organizations. This is not just about leadership training. It is about building a leadership ecosystem.
In this episode, you will discover:
• How 360-degree feedback builds deep self-awareness. • Why stretch assignments accelerate leadership maturity. • The role of culture workshops in institutionalizing values. • How structured mentoring preserves organizational wisdom. • Why action learning beats classroom theory. • How empathy and community exposure shape responsible leaders. • Why systematic process thinking creates scalable leadership.
If you are an HR professional, manager, entrepreneur, student or someone designing organizational growth strategies, this episode will help you think beyond workshops and toward architecture. Because leadership development is not an event. It is a design choice.
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What if your confusion isn’t weakness… but a lack of clarity?
In this video, you’ll discover the Cynefin Framework, a powerful mental model used by leaders and high performers to understand complex situations and make better decisions.
Most people treat every problem the same way… That’s why they feel stuck, overwhelmed, and lost.
🔥 In this video, you’ll learn: • The 4 types of situations in life (Clear, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic) • Why you feel stuck or confused • How to respond correctly in any situation • How to stop overthinking and take control
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Gratitude exists on a spectrum. In this episode, we dive into the "shallow end"—which isn't a negative term, but rather the essential starting point: Appreciation. This is the outside-in feeling of noticing a light breeze, a good cup of tea, or a colleague's quality work.
Key Highlights:
• Minimum Viable Awareness: Appreciation is the "floor" required before deeper gratitude can emerge. • The IT Guy Syndrome: Why our brains are wired for "negativity bias" and gap analysis—only noticing when things break rather than when they work perfectly. • Flipping the Script: How to consciously carve out time to increase your "noticing" sensitivity. • Today’s Challenge: Stop what you are doing at one point today and notice just one thing that is working exactly as it should.
The landscape dictates what is possible and what is not. This is the third of a series on facilitation, dialogic containers and context.In it I want to develop a theory of context for facilitators…...
One of the core tools that we use at PosWork is the Appreciative Inquiry model for strengths-based change. For organisations wanting to find a positive alternative to the traditional risk management approach, Appreciative Inquiry is a great option.
Participants in a meeting of the Japanese OD Network self-organizing in a dialogic container to discuss what they learning from an embodied experience of constraints, Kanzan University, Nagoya, 201…...
In this film of Relational Heroes, we explore the work of Otto Scharmer on leadership, focusing on deep listening and the power of circles of support in shaping more conscious, relational systems. Full length film #RelationalHeroes #OttoScharmer #TheoryU #DeepListening #RelationalPractice
Through his Theory U framework, Scharmer describes four levels of listening from downloading what we already know, to listening with empathy, to generative listening that allows something new to emerge. He invites us to move beyond debate and control towards presence, curiosity, and collective awareness.
We reflect on how these ideas resonate with relational practice, Family Group Decision-Making, kinship care, and trauma-informed work especially the importance of creating circles where people feel seen, heard, and supported to shape their own futures.
Listening, in this frame, is not passive. It is a relational act that redistributes power and makes space for possibility.
This video is shared on our channel for learning purposes, as part of our ongoing exploration of relational heroes whose ideas help us cultivate more attentive, participatory, and life-giving practice.
“The quality of results in any system is a function of the quality of awareness from which people operate.” – Otto Scharmer
If you’re interested in leadership, systems change, social work, kinship care, or building circles of support that generate new futures, this episode is for you.
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A braided river delta in Alaska, image courtesy of NOAA Not as the be-all and end-all of their organizations and teams, but a good leader will hold a container in the workplace in which disagreemen…...
Dave continues and concludes his posts on anthro-complexity, with an important post that captures my feelings exactly about the role of the facilitator-host-practitioner*: When the practitioner’s c…...
Explorando o desenvolvimento de software: comparando abordagens tradicionais e ágeis. Introduzindo o framework Cynefin para navegar complexidades e escolher a estratégia certa. #DesenvolvimentoDeSoftware #MetodologiasAgile #Cynefin #EngenhariaDeSoftware
Most people fail at personal growth not because they lack motivation, but because they lack a system. Welcome to Gurukol, the modern digital classroom where ancient wisdom meets high-performance engineering.
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In this film of Relational Heroes, we explore the work of Otto Scharmer on leadership, focusing on deep listening and the power of circles of support in shaping more conscious, relational systems. Full length film #RelationalHeroes #OttoScharmer #TheoryU #DeepListening #relationalpractice
Through his Theory U framework, Scharmer describes four levels of listening from downloading what we already know, to listening with empathy, to generative listening that allows something new to emerge. He invites us to move beyond debate and control towards presence, curiosity, and collective awareness.
We reflect on how these ideas resonate with relational practice, Family Group Decision-Making, kinship care, and trauma-informed work especially the importance of creating circles where people feel seen, heard, and supported to shape their own futures.
Listening, in this frame, is not passive. It is a relational act that redistributes power and makes space for possibility.
This video is shared on our channel for learning purposes, as part of our ongoing exploration of relational heroes whose ideas help us cultivate more attentive, participatory, and life-giving practice.
“The quality of results in any system is a function of the quality of awareness from which people operate.” – Otto Scharmer
If you’re interested in leadership, systems change, social work, kinship care, or building circles of support that generate new futures, this episode is for you.
Are you tired of power games in your organizations? Do you have hope that collaboration in organizations could bring out the best in people? Do you think organizations could be places of synergy, collaboration, growth, and deep and authentic connection? This webinar is giving an overview of sociocracy. We will talk about: better listening, consent decision making and circle structure, and examples from real life!
Objective probability estimates the odds of an event occurring through data analysis. It uses concrete measures instead of guesses to provide a reliable forecast.
As civil society, we see ourselves as drivers of change. But, sometimes we can get so bogged down in the day-to-day humdrum of our work, that we lose our energy and drive to explore new terrain – to find new ways of doing things. We also sometimes lose sight of the inner progression that is happening in ourselves, and our role in manifesting the future.
Developed by Otto Scharmer, Theory U is an approach to creating change based on a process of inner knowing and social innovation. Professor Scharmer says: “When you deal with managing change, the bulk of the job is moving people from a “silo view” to a “systems view” – or, as we would say, from an ego-system awareness to an eco-system awareness. In fact, what surprises me most is how reliably we can create conditions that allow for that kind of shift in awareness to happen. You can’t manufacture it. You can’t mould it like a piece of metal by hammering on it from the outside. But you can create a set of inner and outer conditions that allows a group, an organisation, or a system to make that move, to sense and see themselves from the emerging whole”. He continues: “There is a distinction between two types of cognition: normal (downloading from existing mental frameworks) versus a deeper level of knowing … to activate the deeper level of knowing, one has to go through a three-step process:
1. Observe - Become one with the situation 2. Retreat - Go to the deeper source of knowing, Access that knowing and let it come to the surface 3. Act - Act swiftly for the deeper knowing
To help us understand Theory-U, we spoke to Hans van der Veen, a Clinical Psychologist who founded the Klein Karoo U.lab, which is based on the principles of Theory U. The Klein Karoo U.lab has taken on interesting community projects, including a Theory-U process with one of the high schools in Oudtshoorn to see if the participants who were teachers, parents, learners, could create approaches that would bring positive change to the school. With Hans, is Lisl Barry, a parent at Oudtshoorn High School, who participated in that process and who shares her experience and what she thinks they achieved at Oudtshoorn High School by using the Theory-U process.
The Learning Lunch (https://learninglunch.dgmt.co.za/) podcast features three types of episodes: Deep Dives; Nourish & Flourish; and Best Bites.
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Cynefin is just one of seven frameworks used by the Cynefin Co. to understand and work with complexity.Here is the complete list at present, left here for posterity: The Cynefin Framework Estuarin…...
Back in 1995 I came across Open Space Technology, in a huge conference in Whistler, where 400 people were exploring public participation practice.Witnessing the facilitators hosting this event was…...
What if the best way to solve a problem was to stop analyzing it? 🛑 Discover in under 8 minutes how Appreciative Inquiry revolutionizes change management by focusing on what is already working rather than what is failing.
What you will learn:
The Shift in Perspective: Why analyzing a malfunction is never enough to spark the energy for a restart.
The Performance Lever: How to secure the "collective brain" to handle complexity more effectively.
2 Concrete Cases: How to transform inefficient meetings and break down silos between departments.
The Practical Challenge: The exact question to ask tomorrow to get immediate results.
🚀 The Bottom Line: You don’t transform an organization through constraint; you transform it by changing the quality of the conversations.
Resources: 🌐 Official Website: https://appreciative-inquiry.fr 📚 Recommended Books: A5 - Deploying Appreciative Inquiry | Life is at the end of a question.
What is something you feel proud of? And what are the things you are great at?
Appreciative inquiry is a great tool to help you grow professionally and personally. In this video, #DrGalia explains what Appreciative Inquiry is and how you can use it to support your growth.
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