Tuesday 14th December
1 hour
I discussed some key themes from my analysis with my Course Leader (A) and Programme Director (B), to help me work out how to translate my learning into practice. The discussion itself was also intended to kickstart this process in itself.
Trust Building
Through vulnerability – sharing experience, problems, feelings – positive and negative
Thoughts from A and B:
Different group sizes give different levels of vulnerability
This seems like an obvious statement and yet at the same time it is not the way everyone operates
Seeming vulnerability that is not what is presented as true – False ideas around what vulnerability is
Trust created by continuing to teach In management positions. In this case, shared experience and concerns.
Culture of Value
Through gratitude
Thoughts from A and B:
I find this hard to do – it makes me uncomfortable to talk about it but in a good way
I feel I do this and make an effort to do it.
Need to do this more
It’s good to hear that you have observed this and think that there is a habit of this already that can be grown.
Importance of Purpose and Outcome
Not category or process
Thoughts from A and B:
I can think of meetings, even this week, where this type of thought was not practiced
When you’ve finished this report you should circulate it
The work we’ve done lately with meetings has improved this I think?
Network of teams accomplishing and handling different jobs – successful
Generous authority
Acting to protect, equalize and connect
Thoughts from A and B:
Seeing value
Service to others
Example – Programme-wide curriculum development meeting
People expressed strong feelings – wanted to pre-empt and get this feeling out
Trusted that we would be able to have that conversation
That people would be able to say what they felt to each other, things like ‘I feel threatened.’
In response to certain issues people were experiencing the Kubler-Ross cycle in real time
Cycling through stages
All these categories are connected
Power owned
Manifesting as with, to and within
Thoughts from A and B:
Delegation is key
Ownership is also important
Different powers described are at play at different times.
Power With – in meeting
Power to and within – after meetings and carried and reinforced in structures
Clarity needed, confusion an issue
Collective resilience