The Map of Meaning is not so much a tool to use, as a complete framework through which to think and make sense of complex situations. You may be familiar with Karl Weick’s work on sensemaking, for example “Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking“. The Map helps us make sense of personal, team, organizational and […]
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Last chance to register for the intensive masterclass on the Map of Meaning, 29th and 30th September in Brisbane. Go to www.trybooking.com/BSHA On the plane to Australia Lani Morris, a world expert on meaningful work, was talking with an electrician who was commenting on how a happy and productive workplace was destroyed by a new boss
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Continuously improving performance within an environment of high risk and changing governance requirements is a challenge. Performance is affected by many factors, but no government department can deliver high quality services, policies and an effective regulatory environment without a committed workforce. Meaningful work, or its absence, influences government outcomes through job satisfaction, motivation, absenteeism, work
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What do people want from public sector institutions? Do they want performance supported by verifiable statistics that indicate the institution is achieving outcomes expected by its peers? Or do they want their phone call answered, their concern understood and something done? When executive managers determine the indicators against which an institution’s performance is to be
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A Committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) has called for central agencies to “take steps to ensure that civil servants with responsibility for policy making have the necessary understanding of the importance of changing behaviour and can identify the most appropriate people to consult in their
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The UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has launched an inquiry into sustainable development in the draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which was published in draft on 25 July 2011. See: Sustainable Development in the National Planning Framework Let us see what they find and how the approach is embraced by local communities throughout the UK.
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The Outlaws who fuel wars and deliver aid.
Perversity in International Aid Read More »
Bio-Mimicry is an approach to learning from nature on how to adapt to our world sustainably. How do we create zero carbon food, reverse desertification and provide the water we need? Michael Pawlyn helps us to learn how to create sustainable design. He sets our souls ablaze with visions of a future that few of
Managing Assets to keep Body and Spirit Strong was delivered to the EAROPH Congress in Adelaide, South Australia in November 2010. Some capital investments result in the improved well-being of a nation’s peoples. Some result in both the body and the spirit, individually and collectively, being weakened. The absence of capital investments, individually and collectively, results in either
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The Global Reporting Initiative has released its “Sustainability Reporting Guidelines“. These guidelines provide tools to assist organisations to “meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations”. The guidelines has been developed “To support this expectation, and to communicate clearly and openly about sustainability” and includes “a globally shared framework of
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