Thought Leadership forums

The benefits of tackling 'messy' problems
Is your company feeling weary, stuck with issues you 'don't want to talk about', or have tried and failed to address, and the longer they endure the more expensive they become? Our Thought Leadership resources are designed to tackle 'messy' issues with new ideas and forums to stimulate new improvement thinking. Typical issues include:

'We're too busy to improve yet spend half our time reworking'

'There is a gap between our aims and our resources, yet we can't innovate'

'There is conflict between our espoused and enacted values'

'Our managers think managing is leading'

'We can't change our culture - we think we’re better than we are...'

'I work here in spite of them...'

'We spend loads on individual development but never improve collectively'

'Why should we need Management 2.0?'

'I could serve our customers better if I was trusted to...'

This work tackles issues in the Learning and Skills sector which few want to talk about, or bring new thinking to. However, the approach could apply to other sectors.

'Managing Their Value'
For Learning and Skills providers to meet challenges of greater improvement and self regulation, they need to tackle an enduring problem, 'the relationship in search of a precipice' between teachers and managers. We suggest that to ensure effective future working, they need to tackle this issue with radical new thinking which recognises:

how teachers have professionally 'withheld' their development thinking

to get 'professional intellect onside' needs perceiving teachers as 'knowledge workers' and developing a climate of commitment based on autonomy, high trust and self managing, so they produce continuous 'value'

this requires not more managers –now 1 in 7- but an innovation in ‘management’ itself, changing fundamentally the work of teachers and managers, and moving from Management 1.0 to Management 2.0, which turns everything upside down

What's next: how can you develop these ideas in your organisation?
To examine the implications in practice of 'Managing Their Value':

Complete the brief form below and click 'submit' to download the 'Appendix: Futuring - in Practice'

Organise a discussion forum at your organisation by sharing these ideas with colleagues. Then contact us to help facilitate and develop value from them