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Build Adaptive Capacity
In today’s blog post, Glenda Eoyang explores options for action when we feel stuck with the challenges we face in the world today.
Lead in Complexity
The statistics are shocking. Even good employees are dissatisfied and disengaged. Organizations of all sizes and sectors recognize the problem. The real problem, though, is that they don’t know what to do about it. Surveys, rewards and recognition programs, gap analysis, and strategic plans uncover the deep discontent, but in most cases they do little to shift the pattern. What will work?
December 3, 2013
In this year-end session, Glenda talks about HSD in the present and future. Griff Griffiths talks about Cocomotion, the consulting group he and colleagues are forming to coach non-profit leaders. Juli Rasmussen shared her HSD learning journey. Kristen Crusoe and Netti Garner discuss their use of HSD and Adaptive Action within a school of nursing. (This event was recorded as an Annual Meeting.)
November 4, 2021
Creating and/or maintaining a strong community can be difficult when the world is changing as quickly and unpredictably as it is today. The current rate and degree of change bring pressure that increases the challenge at all scales. To connect with others and create strong, resilient communities, you have to be able to navigate the complexity of the 21st century.
Address issues of power and collaboration
Hold differences as you seek shared perspectives
Engage everyone in authentic and reciprocal ways
In this webinar you will learn a tool about engaging in generative ways that open space of innovation and connection in the midst of complex change. Use this tool to explore connections at all scales: interpersonal, organizational, and community.
Collaborate to Create Community
For the past week, I've been visiting friends, colleagues, and potential partners in Delhi. This has proven to be an intense experience of one of the HSD simple rules "teach and learn in every interaction." I leave with a profound sense of respect for people who see opportunity emerging from challenge, consensus emerging from diversity, and actual change emerging from the potential of hope and passion.
It is six o’clock in the morning, and your teenage son is not home yet. Your doctor calls you in after a routine exam. There is a natural disaster near the home of friends or relatives on the other side of town, the nation, or the globe. It is your turn to make a presentation to the executive committee. New legislation or regulations for your industry are in the making. Even as I write these sentences, I am aware of tension in my shoulders and butterflies in my stomach. How do you feel as you read them?
September 2, 2021
In the day-to-day challenges of life, we sometimes get caught up in the urgency of the moment, the fear of the future, and regrets of the past. We lose the connections between and among the parts of our life. Each piece begins to stand alone in its impact and challenge.
In HSD we offer a path that allows you to celebrate your life’s experiences:
Remain present to the daily demands and the larger realities that create the whole of your life
Live in the now, with an eye to the future
Remain aware of how today builds the life you want
Watch this webinar to learn about games we all play that can hold us hostage to today or help us move through today’s challenges as we connect to our greater goals in life.