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Tricordant‘s Storyboard

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Passion Purpose Clients

Expertise Champions Barriers

Whole and healthy workplaces. To enable you to transform your organisation.

Complex organisations across all sectors.

Experience, thought-leadership and current best practice.

People wanting to inspire change in their organisation.

The enemy within that prevents whole working.

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‘Unwhole’ organisations?

• Bad for business • Bad for employees• Bad for customers

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Survey of >2500 workers, employers and entrepreneurs

found that 58% of people change their personality and identity to fit

in at work.

Around 16 million (64%) employees don’t believe in

what their company stands for.

Most employees have a hard time getting excited about the glories of maximising shareholder value…The emphasis on financial goals at the expense of providing meaning… contributes to the segmented existence so many people live. Spend a lot of time on the job, but find meaning and fulfilment elsewhere. ‘Hard Facts, Dangerous Half Truths and Total Nonsense’ (2006) Pfeffer and Sutton

“is It clear that a lack of control at work, for example due to inflexible work content and patterns and rigid hierarchies, can cause increased general morbidity as well as constituting poor management practice. There is also significant evidence that poor workplace design can have a detrimental effect on health.”Cabinet Office, DWP & HSE, 2004,

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Why have we lost it?

• Specialisation

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• Component, reductionist thinking

• Scale and complexity

• Control and „efficiency“

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What does wholeness and organisational health look like?

“If you want people motivated to do a good job, give them a good job to do” Herzberg

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For staff

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What does wholeness and organisational health look like?

For customers

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What does wholeness and organisational health look like?

For managers and organisations

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Tricordant – Our Calling

Mission • To enable and equip people and

organisations to work to their full potential, through the creation of whole work within healthy, sustainable and effective organisations.

Vision• To become a thriving Christian company

providing effective whole organisation design and development consultancy based on biblical and theological principles and insights, and informed by best current theory and reflective practice.

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"Whole Work“

We define as work which, at the same time, • Reflects the nature of God in the

stewardship of creation• Is highly efficient and effective in

achieving its purpose and serving customer needs

• Is healthy, satisfying, motivational and developmental for individuals and groups

• Is environmentally sustainable and of benefit to the local community

• Can also contribute to individual’s and organisation’s spiritual development and transformation

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Tricordants Roots......

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Group facilitationengagement

participative work design

Lean

Managingchange

Meaning and purpose of work

Socio-technical systems

Complex adaptive systems & organisational design

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Some Key People

• Other key influences include:

• Robert Greenleaf

• Henry Mintzberg

• Marvin Weisbord

• Ed Schein

• Jim Collins

• Arie de Geus

• Ken Blanchard

• John Kotter

• Peter Senge,

• Jay Galbraith

• Ron Heifetz

• Max De Pree.

• Viv Thomas

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Frederick Taylor Scientific Management

1856 – 1915

Kurt Lewin Group Dynamics

1890 – 1947

Douglas McGregor Motivation Theory

1906 - 1964

Fred Emery (pictured) and Eric Trist

Socio-technical Systems

Christian SchumacherWork Structuring

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Marvin Weisbord, ‘Productive Workplaces Revisited’ (Jossey-Bass/Wylie, 2004)

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Analogical Theology?

‘For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.’ Romans 1v8

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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1v28

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Process Theology – The Trinity at Work

• Barth• North Whitehead• Hartshorn• De Chardin• John Cobb• Robert Mesle• Schumacher• Sayers• PDCA cycles

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Holy Trinity, by Luca Rossetti da Orta, 1738-9

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God as Trinity

Son Holy Spirit

• Conceives• Originates• Creates• Sustains• Plans

•Energises•Inspires•Counsels•Guides•Directs•Communicates•Brings to the goal•Intercedes•Evaluates

• Incarnates• Expresses• Dies & is resurrected• Transforms• Saves• Does

I am who I am• Essence• Oneness• Unity

Father

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Strategy

Systems Culture

ConceptVisionGoals

ObjectivesValues

SpiritEnergy

TeamworkLanguage

MotivationEthos

Evaluation

Processes Governance

InfrastructureProjects

People StructureSkills

Measurement Reward

FoundationReason

Core PurposeEthic

UniquenessHistoryBrand

Leadership

The Tricord ™

Identity

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Father

SpiritSon

The Trinity as Process

• Plans - Wills – Conceives – Originates – Creates – Sustains – Sets purpose - Defines ethics

•Does• Makes• Expresses• Transforms• Saves• Heals• Delivers• Measures• Works• Participates

•Evaluates•Energises•Inspires•Counsels•Guides•Directs•Learns•Brings to the goal•Intercedes

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Whole Work Cycle

•Deliver• Convert • Make• Express• Transform• Restore• Measure• Work• Participate• Do

• Learn•Confirm •Energise• Inspire• Counsel• Advise• Guide• Mediate• Intercede• Direct• Teach• Check• Evaluate

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LearnDeliver

Plan

Significant Event

• Plan - Conceive – Originate - Create - Sustain - Set goals - Define Ethics

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The Creative Cycle?

‘For the writer the Idea (Father) is equated with having the idea

for a book, or the book as a thought; the Energy (Son) is the

incarnation of that idea in the words or as the book is written;

and the Power (Holy Spirit) is the communication of the image

in power or the book as read.’

Dorothy L. Sayers, ‘Mind of the Maker’

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Viv Thomas

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