get artisan slides from #learninglive lpi 2014
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Slides from Neil Denny's after dinner keynote at LPI's Learning and development conference. Get Artisan provides a framework to help us to deal with the conflict between a desire to do excellent work versus an expectation of mediocrity, the conflict between the desire to live a fully realised life versus the half life and the conflict between merely doing a shift and making the shift. Neil Denny is an international speaker, mediator and trainer. You can contact him via www.neildenny.com/contactTRANSCRIPT
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What is craftsmanship?
“The desire to do a job well for its own sake”
“To breathe life into noble or beautiful work that inspires”
But why bother?
Barbie vs Pinocchio
Trying to work
without craft is like
working with a shrug
Photo credit www.wikipedia.org/wiki/shrug
3 Characteristics of craftsmanship1. Connection2. Complexity3. Autonomy
Connection on 3 levels1. Self2. Profession or trade3. Tools and materials
Constellation of theoriesCore values and beliefsTheoriesPracticeOutcomesFrom Lang and Taylor’s
The Making of a Mediator
Connection with profession?Governance Transfer Excellence
The guilds’ hierarchy
“A federation of autonomous workshops”Informal and formal guilds.If your guild doesn’t serveyou, build your own.
Guilds were structures to hold a state of not knowing.
The delicious discomfort in not knowing; curiosity, playfulness, invention.
Within the dark soil of our incompetence lies the
seeds of our excellence
The guilds served as nurseries in which to nurture that potential
John Ruskin
1819-1900
Imagine, for a moment
The artisan is connected with tools and materials – physically, intellectually and subjectively. How about us?
Complexity;Because all of this is really tough.@PhilWIlcox’s blog post “Its time to choose”?Heifetz – “Above and below the neck line”
Pursue complexity.Challenge it and yourself. Grow.
Complexity is found vertically and horizontally – the next adjacent possibility (Steven Johnson Where Good Ideas Come From)
Coping with resistance“Imagine a successful outcome at same time as temporarily suspending the need for one.” Richard Sennett
The Craftsman
Identify and work with the resistance…
Be the gopher
“I have to think like an animal and whenever possible, look like one”
AutonomyThe artisan defines their role and method through connection to their core values and principles and in relation to the profession.
Critically they take responsibility and are accountable to self and to peers.
AutonomyThe product, the work or service becomes its own thing“to do a job well for its own sake”It is brought to life
AutonomyThe VALUE of the work defines itself…
AutonomyThe VALUE of the work defines itself…
All old work has been hard work. It may be the hard work of children, of barbarians, of rustics; but it is always their utmost.
Ours has as constantly the look of money’s worth, of a stopping short wherever and whenever we can, of a lazy compliance with low conditions; never of a fair putting forth of our strength.
Let us have done with this kind of work at once: cast off every temptation to do it: do not let us degrade ourselves voluntarily, and then mutter and mourn over our short comings; let us confess our poverty and our parsimony, but not belie our human intellect.
It is not even a question of how much we are to do, but of how it is to be done; it is not a question of doing more, but of doing better.
Excellence vs MediocrityFulfilled life vs half lifeDoing a shift vs Making the shift
