Here’s a link to a PDF of the presentation I gave at the Compassionate Care conference at Teeside University in April. The presentation develops on some of the points I made in earlier talks I gave in Toronto and Tasmania with regards to our attempts to practice kindness, compassion, and healing care in culturally unsustainable…
All the material related to the Culture(s) in Sustainable Futures conference (Helsinki, 6-8 May 2015) is now available at the conference website: Streamed plenary sessions with the keynote speeches: http://www.culturalsustainability.eu/helsinki2015/programme/conference-programme#videos Students’ reflections from the conference: http://www.culturalsustainability.eu/final-conference/Reflections_2.pdf List of abstracts: http://congress.cc.jyu.fi/helsinki2015/schedule/proceed.html List of participants: http://www.culturalsustainability.eu/final-conference/COSTconferenceparticipants_all.pdf The final publication of the COST Action IS 1007 “Culture in, as and for Sustainable Development”…
More on this story: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/fifa-needs-toptobottom-overhaul-if-it-is-to-survive-20150604-ghgduy.html “Now that the highest person in FIFA has stepped down, we are left wondering how wide and deep the corruption goes and whether there is any hope of recovery for FIFA. “In his speech before the FIFA Congress last week, held under a dark cloud of bribery and corruption charges against…
More on this story: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2015/06/05/taking-naval-approach-culture-change/ “Achieving culture change is more about getting managers to change the way they behave rather than frontline social workers. This is never an easy task, but lessons can be learnt from the Australian Navy. In 2011 it was ordered to improve leadership at every level following reports detailing inefficient and…
Read the full press release here. “The Nuffield Trust today warns that plans for an unprecedented £22 billion in savings and seven day working by 2020 will not be realised unless the health service reconnects with staff and develops their skills to better meet changing patient needs.In a new briefing, published as MPs prepare to…
The core of the work of Hummingbird is that cultural climate is the key driver of behaviour, expectations, analytic frameworks, and quality of relationship within organisations.The most important dimension of an organisational culture might be characterised as its “cultural climate”, or, in shorthand, the personality of an organization. The cultures of organizations differ in the…
“Culture” can be a very confusing term. People use the term in so many ways. At its most empty and rhetorical, “culture” can be used as a catch-all term to express positivity, and aspiration, without people actually saying what they mean when they use the term. At its most specific, “culture” can mean the everyday…
Self-care isn’t impossible in culturally unsustainable environments of enclosure (difficult, even toxic working environments), but it does tend to be rendered unlikely, unless you make ready, strengthen your sense of presence and resolve, and clarify what’s important to you before entering the arena. When all around you is swirling, it’s important that you don’t start swirling…
I won’t be able to get over to it myself, but tomorrow morning (8am – 10am) there is a very interesting Culture Change event happening in London, the 2015 Behavioural Finance Forum: “Since the financial crash of 2007 and 2008 there has been huge pressure for reform and change in the culture of the financial…
Draft, please only cite the published version in the May 2015 edition of the International Practice Development Journal (www.fons.org) when it comes out. Last September I presented a keynote on healthcare and culture change at a Practice Development conference in Toronto. On the day before I left I spent an entire day auditing a marathon six-hour session…