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Rethinking Your Workplace: PWC Lessons from Global CEO’s
The PwC Report: How Business Can Emerge Stronger. From their Global CEO’s Survey of over 5000 leaders PwC identified some of the key lessons learned from the pandemic and the key issues that will be front of mind in 2021 and beyond. There is strong alignment between...
It all comes back to Gratitude
Recently I became fully retired and have been reflecting on my career of 39 years as a social worker in the not for profit sector. I worked primarily with youth and have been fortunate to work with many amazing people in the sector, within four Edmonton agencies and...
Life Lessons: A Reflection on Leadership
As Victor Frankl wrote in 1946, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: … to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." (Man’s Search for Meaning) My life has led me to reflect on how we live our lives both...
Values: Finding the Best Organizational Fit
Over my career and more specifically over the past few months there have been situations or queries from clients about best values fit, how to ensure new hires are a fit for their organizational culture and more specifically the teams they are hiring too. Every...
In with the New Way of Communicating with You!
We are excited about sharing our blogs, book reviews, cutting edge articles, resources, upcoming workshops and more with you, our friends, colleagues, current and potential clients via a new platform called Simple Texting. As our dedicated followers you will receive a...
Lead, Laugh & Play…at Work!
I recently read an article from a June 2015 McCormick Centre titled Laughing Leadership by Holly Elissa Bruno. Holly began her article with a couple of questions: “Who makes you laugh? Really laugh. Laugh-until-you-cry laugh?” And, “Could you use a dose of that person...
A Team Learning Journey: Jasper Place Family Resource Centre
Karen & I recently completed a customized team learning journey with a client Jasper Place Family Resource Centre who provided us with permission to share their experience with prospective clients. We met weekly over six consecutive weeks with the ED and the...
Laying the Groundwork for a Systems Understanding
As a perpetual learner and a leader of a learning team it's important to continuously live the learning. As such, I’m involved in two Learning Communities of Practice (LCoP). One is a group of leaders from the Building Collaborative Learning Teams workshop that have...
2020 Highlights: A Year in Review!
Happy New Year! Despite or as a result of COVID, Organizations by Design Inc. flourished in a virtual environment through online workshops like our four part Change Endurance series attended by over 65 not-for-profit leaders across Alberta. It was a pleasure to sit...
Mindset & Behaviours of Systems Leaders
At Organizations by Design Inc. we are committed to building a community of Systems Leaders through our work with not-for-profit organizations, our workshops & seminars, and in our Learning Communities of Practice (LCoP). This blog taken from the Harvard Business...
Self Care: Staying Connected & Away from the Darkness
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend! For those of you who are of the same vintage as I am, you will likely be humming the song where these lyrics came from as you read this blog. In 1964, Simon and Garfunkel wrote the Sound of Silence to depict the emotional turmoil...
Organizations by Design Inc. : A Collabortive Learning Team
At Organizations by Design Inc. (OBDI) we model collaborative team learning every day, both within our organization, and in all of our client engagements. We have learned to learn together.. Recently, in a team development activity, the OBDI Team worked with a...
Cultivating an Abundance Mentality
As we move into Fall, I have been pondering about perspective and expectations regarding my garden. This led me to the following reflection: “What worked well this year? What more could I have done to produce a better crop? Am I happy with my yield? Were my gardening...
OBD Approach
All great journeys start with the courage to step into uncertainty having the confidence that you will continue to learn and find companions along the way. We use a different approach. We have come to deeply understand and appreciate the responsibility of sharing...
Leadership Learning in Times of Crisis
Who knew not-for-profit leadership during a pandemic would have positive outcomes. This past month has been fast-paced and unpredictable for leaders around the world. For not-for-profit organizations there are multiple and often competing priorities including, our...
Sharing Resources & C5 Model for Change
One of the foundational guiding principles of our company is to openly share any and all resources we use in our work with everyone interested in applying it to themselves, their work or their community initiatives. Our caveat is that we only share tools and...
Systems Leadership: A Three Legged Stool
In October 2019 a professional goal was realized. Through ALIGN's Leadership Bursary I was privileged to be among 24 learners that attended a workshop in Boston co-led by Peter Senge. In a context setting session, Senge who has been one of the teachers on my...
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