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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.
Build Adaptive Capacity
In a complex human system, you can’t be certain of “top-down” control; you may not be able to predict of the future. Your every interaction shapes emergent patterns of behavior and decision making. The world you know is open to known and unknown forces that influence from inside and outside your system’s immediate boundaries.
I wrote this after discussing with one of my empathy buddies, Rodger Sorrow, his anguish about events in Ferguson, MO, and reading Miki Kashtan's call to action on the CNVC certified trainers' email list.
Manage Strategic Change
Our Sticky Issue #1 comes from a change leader in a large urban county. To save space and encourage collaboration, the county literally "took down the walls." Now, 150 social services staff work in a large, open space.
The HSD Institute thrives because of our long-term relationships with clients. Learners come back and continue to build knowledge and skills. Long-time organizational partners invite us into new and ever more interesting projects because they see success in the past, and they expect overwhelming challenges in the future.
December 2, 2021
In this decade of massive and unpredictable change, your days are shaped by uncertainty and turbulence. Plans for the day are obsolete by mid-morning, and the week’s calendar is completely reworked by noon on Monday. Beyond the week? Trying to plan that far in advance, feels like it gives you only two choices: 1) Stick with the plan, no matter what; or 2) Give up on planning altogether.
How do you plan when you can’t know what’s coming tomorrow? How do you prepare for a future you just cannot see, but you want and need the anchor or touch point that having a plan offers?
Make sense of trends and patterns that shape your life
Rely on local context, resources, and information
Build Adaptive Capacity into the structure of your plan
Watch this webinar to find ways to create and live a plan that anchors day-to-day decisions, adapts to constant change and interruption, and moves toward the vision you hold for the future.
Last week the Human Systems Dynamics Institute hosted “Twenty-first Century Facilitation: Find Wisdom in Chaos.” As with all Adaptive Action Labs, we will meet to hold a more formal review. Today, however, I am sharing my more immediate reflections about this Lab. Using the Adaptive Action format makes this a simple, logical practice that keeps me focused on what’s important. I don’t get lost in the details or drama. Here’s how it works.