Friday, December 7, 2007

Something is trying to happen in your organization?


Something is trying to happen in your organization?

Lets start off with a couple of assumptions. Even though the old saying about assumptions suggests that I am already in trouble for having them I will hold out for the "truth" of these:
1) Your organization is filled with some very smart and creative people.
2) They know something important is needed, it is related to what is next.
3) This something is stirring below the surface and is felt as much as it is consciously known.

As the people in your organization work in the system of it they are tuned in to a collective wisdom. That wisdom is experienced as a hunch or a knowing that eventually will be revealed as the next great idea for a much needed process or a product. It may be the answer to your organizations next big challenge. It also may be that this idea could get left behind on the table for a variety of preventable reasons.

You likely don't need one more consultant to come in and tell you what to do. No one can know better than the people that are living and breathing inside your team.

It is more likely that the solutions are known at some level and if only you all had more time to explore, to reveal, to tell someone and of course to listen.

It seems counter intuitive perhaps that the key to moving forward in a good way may be in your willingness to slow down, do less, and to reflect or imagine more. You may be thinking that everyone is so busy how could you possible justify taking a day off just to chat, to consider, to celebrate, to huddle and most important to breathe and yet how can you not?

Take a walk each day in nature. You will be amazed at how much more you will get done and you will have a better experience doing it.

Take your team for a visioning day and reveal that solution that is right beneath the surface.

Bring in a coach to run it and free yourself to participate and to listen.

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