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Trust in the Workplace - Kubler Ross Model

Wed, 19 May 2021 13:08:30 GMT

Trust in the Workplace - Kubler Ross Model

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Wed, 19 May 2021 11:38:02 GMT

Trust in the Workplace 4

Trust in the Workplace 3

Mon, 17 May 2021 20:12:48 GMT

Trust in the Workplace 3

Language Games between an Engineer & Biologist

Mon, 17 May 2021 13:37:57 GMT

Values & Behaviours in Place-Based Leadership

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:29:32 GMT

Values & Behaviours in Place-Based Leadership

What new models of leadership are required to reflect Sense of Place, aligned to values & behaviours?

Sense of Place

It is important to understand that sense of place is not just a physical /geographical situation but an emotional and attached interface to who we are. There is beautiful Welsh word “Hiraeth” which encompasses that thought, feeling, and emotion to the sense of place that we desire, feel attracted to, and connected with.

There has been much research on this topic and while I am not coming from an academic perspective it’s worth noting the vast amount of work that has been researched on this subject and how this affects our health and well being. I have been fortunate enough to work in many countries across the globe, one of the key factors was working in an environment that allows you to flourish and grow.

In the field of people-place relationships it can be seen that it is a facilitator of emotional needs and places our experience of terms of these emotional needs and at the same time represents a form of identity and social interaction.

Also, this can be defined as strength of association between the individual and specific places; fundamentally this will have an enduring impact on our lives both now and in the future.

Operates in the background of awareness. It is difficult to assess; Shock of disruption helps to clarify what has been disrupted. A study of place attachment starts with an understanding of the disruptions of place attachment.
Repeated interactions in specific settings including organisational locations typically result in place attachment. An emotional bond forms between an individual and a physical site.
After the development of secure place attachments, the loss of normal attachments creates a stressful period of disruption, followed by a post-disruption phase of coping

Therefore as part of our future well being and infrastructure, it is incumbent on all of us to define and deliver those structures that will have an effect on not just the workforce but those who can actually see the structures and organization.

Technology can now prove a huge benefit/and or detriment to this endeavour: will Smart Cities be one outcome and a leading development to our health and well being.

The office of the future may be virtual and physical. How will that be built monitored and fundamentally redesigned to mirror the new possibilities that may arise from collaboration and co-creation, and still fill the need for social & emotional engagement.

Their Values & Behaviours

This can be dependent on place, environment, and factors that have been brought to this situation. It is especially the case that the individual and collective, will have an historical narrate to bring which, may or may not be assimilated into the present structure/system, having evolved and included their own detail; will the emerging systems be able to include what is already present, or given the shift that is happening, will it now “focus and split” according to the situation that it readily finds itself, because the parameters that encased it are no longer there.

Edgar Schein suggests in his highly acclaimed book Organizational Culture and Leadership – “…any group with a stable membership and history of shared learning will have developed some level of culture” This then will allow us to evolve in a different way from a growth & sustainable capability.

Trust the Workplace 2

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:24:49 GMT

Trust in the Workplace 2

Bill McAllister-Lovatt, a renowned business consultant, speaker, coach and mentor with a passion for developing and expanding critical conversations and dialogue within the workplace.

Are you in or out of flow?

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:00:21 GMT

Are you in or out of flow?

Are you in or out of flow? Have you experienced a time when there is no time, and that you worked, listened, or progressed in such a way, that you were immersed in what you were doing? Flow is an enjoyable state, but can you choose to be in flow or does it just happen? I have often wondered what it feels like to be in flow...

Some days, I am in flow without realising, and other days I know I am not. Music plays a great part in this, although when I am working, it is better for me if there are no lyrics, as they seem to form a distraction, which then completely takes me out of the situation in hand.

Also, I think that sense of place, in that moment, where you are trying to achieve for yourself and your team, can be vital to the task in hand, there are internal and external factors that can and do have a bearing on this. Where are you working, does that word 'work' mean that you will have a different sort of flow because it is work?

Research has shown that working in a team who have values & behaviours similar to oneself and the ability to share and discuss experiences and work has a positive effect on the individual & collective.

So, can I recommend that you look at your flow state, and move into that space that allows you to flow and experience. One of my takes on this is when I am being creative and writing, engaging. I often ask, where has the time gone? it actually hasn’t, it is always there, however flow doesn’t use time as a construct, it just flows...