Hybrid Working Patterns - How to Make the Best of Both Worlds

How do we make the best of both worlds? Hybrid working patterns have given us the opportunities to be part of our local communities more as well as going back into the offices with our colleagues. As we get into the first winter of hybrid working 2022/23, post pandemic working, we want to take with us the good stuff of our hybrid working patterns where we want to and when we want.

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Culture Change Tools - Immunity Mapping and Hybrid Working

Hybrid Working is a game changer for culture change in the future of workplaces. This article explains a really useful tool for successful facilitation of deeply difficult issues involving culture change. It offers a way of ‘re-planning your strategy’ and ‘analysing how things go off piste’,  A healthy learning culture can be built using this tool.

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Coaching a Scottish Organisation into Being Strategic

In my experience there’s a big difference between having a strategy and actually ‘being strategic’. This case case study shows how I’ve helped an organisation make that difference, with the help of my Time & Energy Auditing tools.

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Leading Through Change - an overview

Are you leading change well? In these changing times it can be tricky to keep perspective on all the changing factors affecting our work. In this short article i explain the core of change management. This is a good building block for then more complex courses and supervision work i do about leading from the emerging future.

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Ethics in the Boardroom - A Case Study

A case study of the kind of ethical conversations that need to happen in the boardroom of any organisation to carry out due diligence, highlighting the processes and differentiation of salaried executives and unremunerated non-executive leading to work with diversity of thinking, declaring and addressing conflicts of interest, and preventing a U-turn or embarrassing the reputation of the organisation.

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Heroic Leadership - who is your role model?

Heroic Leadership is often part of quiet leadership, very powerful, because of how rooted, grounded and connected it is. In this article you can meet my hero (recently deceased) and contemplate who are your role models.

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Why Sustainability is at the Heart of PlacesWork

Sustainability has been at the heart of our business since we began. Our members and clients care about the world that we inhabit. Director and founder of PlacesWork, Duncan Wallace has been a climate activist for over twenty years and currently serves on the board of Friends of the Earth. Whereas, our youngest team member took part in and promoted the first school climate strikes in Scotland. 

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