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.
Read MoreHybrid 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThis case study shows how culture change is facilitated by properly led and managed consultancy type leadership development programmes. In this case the work I led was transformative, not only helping a hospice build a more resilient workforce, but helping me develop my valuable Time & Energy Audit.
Read MoreAre 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.
Read MoreThis article is for trustees, Directors, founders, Public Appointees or Ministers of government. Our call to action is simple. Your response to the climate crisis should be a standing item on every boards agenda. You could call the agenda item ‘Code Red for Humanity - our response’, so that you can take behavioural change one meeting at a time.
Read MoreOrganisations and leaders need to be recognising and framing the post crisis period. A practical way of doing this is using Bridges transition theory. This article puts remobilisation stages and reminds us of the 4 P’s which support successful transitions.
Read MoreI’ve been using Action Learning for more than 20 years – it’s a powerful and effective approach that knits together the countless individual actions across a group (or groups) into one vast, collaborative effort: harnessing the power of peers to bring about profound change.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreThis article explains how to develop systems thinking and gain systemic insights. I take a human systems approach and enable you to look at the linkages between family upbringing, rejection, acceptance and financial principles that are embedded in value systems.
Read MoreHeroic 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.
Read MoreSustainability 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.
Read More
This article is for trustees, Directors, founders, Public Appointees or Ministers of government. Our call to action is simple. Your response to the climate crisis should be a standing item on every boards agenda. You could call the agenda item ‘Code Red for Humanity - our response’, so that you can take behavioural change one meeting at a time.