Resilience

In the current economic climate, organizations will either find fundamentally new ways to align their people and resources to the marketplace or simply cease to exist.

This is a serious challenge as most of us, when faced with new circumstances, retreat into old habits. We panic, shut down, and worry about personal survival. We don't work together to innovate, survive, and thrive.

Many people are cynical about whether collaboration and cooperation are even possible. They are. But we need leaders who know how to create organizations based on core values, integrity, action learning, and the transformation of outmoded ways of thinking, feeling, and acting.

All of us want to be seen, heard, cared for, and well used. If you're not convinced that these are critical to success, contrast the blame and shame culture of the Big Three automakers to Google, which continues to thrive despite the financial crisis.

A DramaWorks partner, the Barrett Values Centre, has created a beautiful graph of what is necessary to begin to align the personal and collective internal and external worlds of a family, a community, or an organization in order to promote cohesion, adaptability, and resilience.

We'd love to talk with you about how we can use this model to help you understand the old beliefs, prejudices and patterns that are at play in your organization. When we do that you and your team can begin to create a new story that makes the organization more responsive and resilient.