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Dealing with a performance issue is a bit like dealing with a hip injury: it can feel like a real pain in the gluteus maximus. It can also change your perspective on managing people, particularly when you ask the question, “Am I dealing with a problem or a pattern?” One of my clients—let’s call him Bob—met with me to talk about a performance problem he faced. He called it a “problem employee.” This employee was behind on work assignments, increasingly absent, and causing frustration within the team.
October 5, 2023
In times of chaos and confusion, a good question will serve you much better than any answer. Answers shift and deceive, while questions keep you open to learning and adaptation.
In this workshop, Glenda explores two powerful practices that will help you and your teams stay in adaptive inquiry. This virtual workshop is for anyone who is ready to thrive in whatever future emerges.
This week's survey was about uncertainty--Can we control our world enough to limit or do away with uncertainty? What can we control when the whole world seems uncertain and out of control? What can we do to respond to the uncertainty in our lives?
GovernmentPlan in Uncertainty
In HSD, we teach people to see patterns in complex situations, and to understand them in true and useful ways. The goal is to make choices and take actions that shift those patterns toward greater health and wellbeing—away from oppression.
March 7, 2024
In chaos and uncertainty, old answers and familiar expertise lose their power. Only questions connect you with an ever-emerging reality. This workshop explores the power and possibility of inquiry practice in personal and professional life. Examples from literature, history, and personal experience illustrates how inquiry and humility can reveal opportunity, even in the middle of tragedy and destruction. Join the community in the Power of Questions to develop your capacity to ask and receive transforming questions.
Build Adaptive Capacity
Mathematicians call it the Baker Transformation.
Biologists call it respiration.
Physical therapists call it exercise.
Artists call it inspiration.
Teachers call it learning.
Learners call it cramming.
Musicians call it melody.
Bakers call it kneading.
August 3, 2023
Change is perpetual in a complex system, so your response must be perpetual, too. What worked yesterday will probably not meet the same needs in an emergent future. Because of the inevitability of change, you must develop resilience that serves you across time and challenge. We see resilience as finding what is fit for function now and in an emerging future, not returning to some earlier state of happy equilibrium.
In this Live Virtual Workshop, you will learn some simple rules for finding adaptive responses to help you thrive in unpredictable and inevitable change.