That Moment Before Starting: The Joys and Pitfalls of Team Check-ins
“For our check-in, I invite you to answer this question with a single sentence: ‘How do I feel about our objective?’” The first time I encountered the practice of the check-in was about twenty years ago, during seminars rooted in the US-UK tradition. At the time, it seemed unusual to me: in most seminars, participants […]
Gen Z vs. Gen X and Y: the Diversity Wheel as a tool to facilitate intergenerational dialogue
The Diversity Wheel is a very interesting tool for exploring the different identities that make us who we are. And particularly effective when used to activate conversations, for example between people participating in DE&I training. The tool was published in the book ‘Workforce America! Managing Employee Diversity as a Vital Resource’ by Loden & Rosener […]
We don’t avoid conflicts – we avoid working through them!
How tempting it is to long only for spring, or summer: the days getting longer, the plants growing, Nature blossoming. So tempting that we often forget that there is only life in ecosystems because there is also death. Similarly, in the organisations where we work, it is tempting to focus on good relationships; to […]
What being Purpose-led really means
Over the past few years – and we should all be grateful for it! – there has been an ever stronger emphasis on becoming a Purpose-led organisation, and for leaders in those organisations to lead with/from purpose. Purpose: the new key to unlocking organisational performance? The rationale is simple: if you are clear […]
From I to We: enabling a group to clarify its collective intention
If you’ve read other of our blog posts, you’ll have picked up by now that here, at Nexus, we use the U process to design pretty much all of our interventions. So I’m not going to go into details about the process itself; my purpose here is to describe a methodology I’ve been using at […]
Bernard Tapie, the collective imagination, and regeneration
In France, a remarkable man has just died. His name was Bernard Tapie. For decades, he marked the collective imagination of the French; loved or hated, he embodied for many of them the symbol of the ‘self-made man‘, the living example of the businessman who fights, who has the rage to win, and who succeeds […]
5 principles to regenerate: yourself, your team and your organisation
In many areas of organisational life, and beyond, we seem to be stuck, repeating patterns that do not produce situations that we desire. Yet many of us can feel inescapably caught in this pattern-repetition, helpless and powerless about the possibility of generating different experiences and outcomes. These experiences become manifest in a fractal way: […]
