Change Selection
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Please choose a question
How do we help senior leaders focus on their real work as opposed to responding to high pressure
How do you get anything done when it is not in the interest of some people to be engaged?
How do you manage the disconnect between intentions at the top and what is actually delivered on the ground?
How do you move people’s focus from process to outcomes?
How do you use Sustainability & Transformation Plans and/or Devolution to really change the way we do things?
What moves a senior group from analysis to action on a tricky issue?
LIVING SYSTEMS
Myron Rogers
Living Systems developed by Myron Rogers is a way of addressing the questions:
How do systems work?
How does this system work?
How do I work in and with this system?
Living systems suggests that organisations are living, complex and dynamic
systems, made up of many networks within networks. And provides a
framework as a way of understanding them.
Identity
Identity is how a system defines and understands itself. Change has to cause
a ‘meaningful disturbance’. But can only be meaningful if it supports the system’s
identity.
Relationships
Relationships are the connections within the networks of a system that spread
information through stories. Change needs stories, and so it needs to also
develop and support relationships in systems.
Information
The living system needs information to survive and grow. It decides which
information is valuable to its evolution and which information is a threat and
therefore must be destroyed.
John Atkinson of the Phillips Kay Partnership, and co-author of ‘The Art of Change Making’, talks about Living Systems at the ‘Systems Leadership Steering Group: 3 years on’ event in December 2015.