shape your workplace @ spark the change, toronto

Eric Lynn ● www.cultureQs.com ● @cultureQs

Accelerating Value Creation

Shape Your Workplace

Spark The Change, Toronto. 10 June 2016

What do you want Your Organisation to BE?

Accelerating Value CreationWhat do you want Your Organisation to BE?

Three Key Learnings from 40 years of people-centred work …

Most organisations contain massive untapped potential … resources which they are frequently unaware of …

People WANT TO contribute.They are looking for opportunities to engage positively …

Difference is a Natural Resource …



Three Key Learnings from 40 years of people-centred work …

Most organisations contain massive untapped potential … resources which they are frequently unaware of …

People WANT TO contribute.They are looking for opportunities to engage positively …

Difference is a Natural Resource …

Invite Your People to the Party

Leverage Difference to

Make a Difference

Release Potential

Meetingthe Challenge



Bring People TogetherAnd

LET THEM TALK!

… Focused Meaningful Conversations… where people talk WITH each other …

… Not ABOUT each other


A simple essential principle to invite engagement …



How? … The Prerequisites …

• Leadership that's awake to these realities …… and WANTS TO …

• Genuine Invitation• Clear Purpose• Focus

Let People Shape Their Workplace



Each person brings …… personal values … learned norms … individual experiences … beliefs: perspective of how the world works… individual identity


Aligning People: Working WITH Human Complexity

CREATE THE SPACE

PEOPLE NEED TO BE THEMSELVES



Aligning People: Working with Human Complexity

Without QUESTIONS … there can be no progress

Questions that enable groups to

Shape Culture



Culture isThe Soul of the

Organisation


The continuously evolving dynamic interaction of mindsets and gutsets of actors in the system(s).

CultureAccelerating Value Creation




Seven Core Layers of CultureInfluencers of our Interactions in an Organisational Context




Human Interaction Dynamics



“How can we accelerate the process of forming deep meaningful connections, to enable us to focus on our real work immediately?”


The Client Challenge that Sparked cultureQs


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Deep Meaningful Conversations that Connect … Quickly

Foundations of cultureQs Accelerating Value Creation




Questions for Organisational Learning

• How can we enable people to align quickly while focusing on their “business”?

• How can we enable people to start talking WITH each other … rather than ABOUT each other?

• How can we learn to LISTEN to others, enabling us to expand our world view?

• How can we learn to ASK QUESTIONS, rather than presenting answers (often to the wrong Questions)?

• How can we generate conversations that facilitate genuine discovery?


cultureQs ApplicationsAccelerating Value Creation

LeadershipDevelopment

Project TeamIntegration

MobilisingLarge Groups

ManagementTeam Integration

Start-Ups

PersonalDevelopment

ConflictResolution

TransformingYour Organisation

Post-MergerIntegration

International TeamIntegration

Shaping yourWorking Culture

DiversityInitiatives

Interactive Keynotesfor

Conferences & Events

InterculturalTraining

CollaborativeInnovation




Which critical business challenges do you want your people to engage on … NOW?

Organisation Challenges for Reflection …

How much value could you add by exposing and tapping into your organisations hidden resources?

Which Conversations are you not having in your organisation?

Why not?



Question… with a capital Q

Without QUESTIONS … there can be no progress



Eric LynnBerlin, [email protected]: @cultureQs


shape your workplace @ spark the change, toronto

Leadership & Management