Humanity Above Bureaucracy: How Buurtzorg Reinvented Dutch Home Care
Speaking at the 2017 Happy Workplaces conference, Madelon van Tilburg of Buurtzorg Nederland and Brendan Martin of Public World detail the advantages of a flexible, human-focused approach to home care.
Madelon has been working for Dutch home care organisation, Buurtzorg, since 2011. Buurtzorg differs from her previous employers in that it lets nurses exercise freedom and responsibility in the job they’re trained for. Brendan founded Public World with the aim of improving public service performance in the UK.
View Madelon and Brendan’s full talk below.
Ethical Investment: It Has Paid Off For Me
Recently I’ve found myself several times in lively discussions about whether choosing to invest ethically means accepting a lower financial return.
Five Good News Stories (March 2021 Edition)
We’re currently enduring the worst public health crisis in more than 100 years. Life on earth has undergone many dramatic changes and a return to ‘normal’ still feels a long way off. But we do live in profoundly progressive times, with modern humans continuing to make amazing discoveries and breakthroughs.
Here are five good news stories to provide respite from the doom and gloom of a regular news bulletin.
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The Future of Work is Human
At the 2017 Happy Workplaces conference, Peter Cheese made a compelling case for why the future of work is human.
Peter is the CEO of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, which is made up of more than 140,000 human resource management professionals working in the private, public and voluntary sectors around the globe.
While Cheese admits he can’t tell us exactly what the future of work will look like, he’s optimistic that humans will maintain indispensable workplace significance even as technology continues to expand.
View Peter’s full talk below.
Make work more fun
Make Work More Fun. That’s the title of the inspirational book from Corporate Rebels, published in 2020. The rebels, Joost Minnaar and Pim De Morree, gave up their jobs five years ago to tour the world visiting the most exciting organisations on the planet. The book tells the story of what they found.
In this blog, Henry Stewart unpacks a number of the book’s key arguments, which can help you discover a different way of organising companies, one that is more fulfilling for its people and more productive for the organisation.
Liberating Structures: Giving Everybody an Equal Voice
“It was astonishing how a day on Zoom could be so energising, interesting and engaging.”
Since their introduction in mid-2020, our online Liberating Structures Immersion Workshops have consistently rated among the most engaging events we’ve ever held.
Imagine if every meeting or event that you attended gave every participant the chance to speak and to express their views. That is what is made possible by
Liberating Structures,
33 methods that avoid one person dominating and instead give everybody a voice.
If you want your online events to be truly interactive, this could be the place to start. In this blog, Henry Stewart offers a summary of eight Liberating Structures.
Happy Workplaces are More Successful
For the Korean edition of the Happy Manifesto, published in September, I’ve updated the section on the evidence that happy workplaces simply perform better.
The research has been done and the evidence is in: there is a clear link, shown in many studies, confirming that companies with great workplaces are more successful commercially.
How Microsoft Teams Keeps Improving Our Remote Working Experience
Since spring 2020, Microsoft Teams has become a household name. With Teams, you can keep your files, conversations and video meetings all in one place, making remote working so much simpler.
Microsoft has been adding new features to the application throughout the course of the year in order to make the software more immersive, flexible and convenient. In this blog, Billy highlights a range of Teams’ latest innovations, which are designed to both enhance user experience and improve productivity in our ‘new normal’.
Let’s Give Everybody an Equal Voice
On a Friday in August 2020, we held our third online Liberating Structures Immersion Workshop. Once again, it was rated among the most engaging conferences we’ve ever held.
Imagine at your events if everybody got to speak equally. Imagine the most senior people did not get to dominate the discussion. Imagine the loudest voices weren’t the ones who carried the decisions.
In this blog, Henry Stewart goes through nine Liberating Structures, which make it so everybody has an equal voice.
