How to improve your workplace culture (The Week)
From The Week – reward, value and rule-based approaches to organisational culture change … http://theweek.com/article/index/266863/how-to-improve-your-workplace-culture
San Jose state looks to change campus ‘cultural climate’
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/san-jose-state-looks-change-campus-cultural-climat/nfJRp/?__federated=1 “SAN JOSE, Calif. — The state assembly is now looking at the issues of tolerance, diversity and student safety, following a racially charged incident at San Jose State University last fall. …” (More)
Building from the heart up …
Remember one of your healthiest and most helpful moments of relationship where you felt most comfortable, most welcome, most supported, and most generous within yourself. It may have been with other people. It may have been in the company of a favourite animal, or even in the company of a favourite object. You may even…
9 Leadership Steps For Corporate Culture Change (Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/micahsolomon/2014/09/27/a-leadership-checklist-for-culture-change-and-customer-experience-excellence/ “Want to use your leadership to drive cultural change at your company? Here’s what it takes: a 9-point checklist of what we’ve found, as culture change consultants, to be required for a company culture to achieve organizational and customer experience excellence. …” (More)
Hummingbird back on the wing after hiatus
After a number of months of quiet on account of family duties, the Hummingbird Workshop is back up and running with a new suite of workshops. The first workshop to be confirmed is The Courage To Be Gentle, to be held in Warrenpoint on the 26th August in St. Peter’s Parish Centre. More details on the PDF…
The Politics of Gentleness – a conversation
Last Wednesday night I passed a very enjoyable evening in the company of a small group of people in the Culturen building in Västerså, Sweden. I was there at the invitation of Dougald Hine, a dynamic thinker and dreams-to-reality engineer who recently moved from London to live in Sweden. Dougald has found himself curating a series of public conversations/interviews simply…
Self-compassion increases compassion for others
“Emma Seppälä, Ph.D. is a Science Journalist & Author (http://emmaseppala.com) and the Associate Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University (http://ccare.stanford.edu/) Emma Seppälä’s areas of expertise are health psychology, well-being, and resilience. She conducts research, writes and speaks about the science of happiness, social connection, and compassion. Her…
Presence and the Relational Field
“Presence” is a term that is gaining caché in coaching, leadership, and culture change, and one which I find useful to explore as a gateway to my reflections on gentleness. Interestingly, as a positive term it seems to be finding more fertile ground in reflective professional practice (for example, in coaching, the performing arts, management,…
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