How to Stop the Same Few People From Dominating Your Meetings
Wouldn’t it be nice if your whole team could find their voice and participate in meetings? Liberating Structures can help — 33 methods of that avoid one person dominating a conversation and give everybody a voice.
In this blog, Henry goes through two of the most popular methods to get you started.
Is it Time for a 4 Day Week?
Andrew Barnes is one of the leading promoters of the four-day week across the world. As Founder of Perpetual Guardian in New Zealand, he implemented this approach back in 2018.
Andrew will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference on 12th May.
Impact Players: How to Have a Real Impact in Your Job
What makes the difference between somebody who is simply a contributor and somebody who makes a real difference? That is the question that Liz Wiseman addresses in her new book, Impact Players.
Liz was a standout speaker at our 2020 conference, and is back again for our 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference on 12th May.
Vivek Menon at Danfoss: Building a Teal Bubble in a Large Company
I am often asked whether you can build happy trust-based workplaces within a larger more hierarchical organisation. So I was very interested to hear about the eSteering team at Danfoss, a 120 person unit within a 40,000 strong company.
Vivek Menon, a Senior Director at the Danish company Danfoss, explained at the Teal Around the World Conference how they created a culture of trust and freedom. Vivek will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Teach For All: A Global Self-Managing Organisation
Five years ago staff at Teach For All came together and proposed dismantling the senior team, changing the role of managers and exploring new ways of working. “The senior team was abolished on the spot!” explains Marwa Farouq, Global Head of Operations.
Marwa will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference on May 12th about Teach for All’s journey towards self-management. It is a remarkable story with a lot to learn from.
Creating a Happy Workplace at Heart of Kent Hospice
Here are some ideas for creating a great culture from Sarah Pugh, now Chief Executive of Whizz Kidz, about her time as CEO at Heart of Kent Hospice — all taken from her talk at the 2021 Happy Workplaces Conference.
How Helen Sanderson MBE Has Created People-Centric Workplaces
Helen Sanderson originally set up Wellbeing Teams in 2016 with the aim of radically changing the way health and social care is delivered. Inspired by the Dutch care company Buurtzorg, Wellbeing Teams are small, neighbourhood self-managed care teams. They have coaches, but no managers.
Find out how Helen created Wellbeing Teams as a self-managing organisation that is focused on letting team members be human with each other in Henry’s blog.
Tom Peters: A Leadership Guru Ahead of His Time
Tom Peters is the ultimate management guru. Thinkers50, the list of the top 50 management thinkers, has rated him in the top 10 in multiple years and awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award, one of only six people to achieve the honour, in 2017.
“Charismatic, passionate, and insightful, Tom virtually invented the modern thought leadership industry,” explained Thinkers50 co-founder Des Dearlove. “He co-authored In Search of Excellence, which helped create the business book industry.”
Find out more about Tom Peters in this blog by Henry Stewart.
Jaipur Rugs: Art That You Can Walk On
Nand Kishore Chaudhary (known as NKC) has been called ‘the Gandhi of the rug industry.’ Jaipur Rugs, which he founded, has 700 employees and works with 40,000 artisans from among the poorest of the poor.
He set it up in 1978 with just 2 looms and 9 artisans. The weavers come from the Untouchable class. “All my family tried to stop me,” explained NKC. “But I can’t see the difference, how these people are untouchable.”
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.
