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Tricordant‘s Storyboard
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Passion Purpose Clients
Expertise Champions Barriers
Whole and healthy workplaces. To enable you to transform your organisation.
Complex organisations across all sectors.
Experience, thought-leadership and current best practice.
People wanting to inspire change in their organisation.
The enemy within that prevents whole working.
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‘Unwhole’ organisations?
• Bad for business • Bad for employees• Bad for customers
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Survey of >2500 workers, employers and entrepreneurs
found that 58% of people change their personality and identity to fit
in at work.
Around 16 million (64%) employees don’t believe in
what their company stands for.
Most employees have a hard time getting excited about the glories of maximising shareholder value…The emphasis on financial goals at the expense of providing meaning… contributes to the segmented existence so many people live. Spend a lot of time on the job, but find meaning and fulfilment elsewhere. ‘Hard Facts, Dangerous Half Truths and Total Nonsense’ (2006) Pfeffer and Sutton
“is It clear that a lack of control at work, for example due to inflexible work content and patterns and rigid hierarchies, can cause increased general morbidity as well as constituting poor management practice. There is also significant evidence that poor workplace design can have a detrimental effect on health.”Cabinet Office, DWP & HSE, 2004,
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Why have we lost it?
• Specialisation
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• Component, reductionist thinking
• Scale and complexity
• Control and „efficiency“
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What does wholeness and organisational health look like?
“If you want people motivated to do a good job, give them a good job to do” Herzberg
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For staff
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What does wholeness and organisational health look like?
For customers
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What does wholeness and organisational health look like?
For managers and organisations
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Tricordant – Our Calling
Mission • To enable and equip people and
organisations to work to their full potential, through the creation of whole work within healthy, sustainable and effective organisations.
Vision• To become a thriving Christian company
providing effective whole organisation design and development consultancy based on biblical and theological principles and insights, and informed by best current theory and reflective practice.
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"Whole Work“
We define as work which, at the same time, • Reflects the nature of God in the
stewardship of creation• Is highly efficient and effective in
achieving its purpose and serving customer needs
• Is healthy, satisfying, motivational and developmental for individuals and groups
• Is environmentally sustainable and of benefit to the local community
• Can also contribute to individual’s and organisation’s spiritual development and transformation
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Tricordants Roots......
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Group facilitationengagement
participative work design
Lean
Managingchange
Meaning and purpose of work
Socio-technical systems
Complex adaptive systems & organisational design
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Some Key People
• Other key influences include:
• Robert Greenleaf
• Henry Mintzberg
• Marvin Weisbord
• Ed Schein
• Jim Collins
• Arie de Geus
• Ken Blanchard
• John Kotter
• Peter Senge,
• Jay Galbraith
• Ron Heifetz
• Max De Pree.
• Viv Thomas
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Frederick Taylor Scientific Management
1856 – 1915
Kurt Lewin Group Dynamics
1890 – 1947
Douglas McGregor Motivation Theory
1906 - 1964
Fred Emery (pictured) and Eric Trist
Socio-technical Systems
Christian SchumacherWork Structuring
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Marvin Weisbord, ‘Productive Workplaces Revisited’ (Jossey-Bass/Wylie, 2004)
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Analogical Theology?
‘For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.’ Romans 1v8
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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1v28
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Process Theology – The Trinity at Work
• Barth• North Whitehead• Hartshorn• De Chardin• John Cobb• Robert Mesle• Schumacher• Sayers• PDCA cycles
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Holy Trinity, by Luca Rossetti da Orta, 1738-9
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God as Trinity
Son Holy Spirit
• Conceives• Originates• Creates• Sustains• Plans
•Energises•Inspires•Counsels•Guides•Directs•Communicates•Brings to the goal•Intercedes•Evaluates
• Incarnates• Expresses• Dies & is resurrected• Transforms• Saves• Does
I am who I am• Essence• Oneness• Unity
Father
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Strategy
Systems Culture
ConceptVisionGoals
ObjectivesValues
SpiritEnergy
TeamworkLanguage
MotivationEthos
Evaluation
Processes Governance
InfrastructureProjects
People StructureSkills
Measurement Reward
FoundationReason
Core PurposeEthic
UniquenessHistoryBrand
Leadership
The Tricord ™
Identity
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Father
SpiritSon
The Trinity as Process
• Plans - Wills – Conceives – Originates – Creates – Sustains – Sets purpose - Defines ethics
•Does• Makes• Expresses• Transforms• Saves• Heals• Delivers• Measures• Works• Participates
•Evaluates•Energises•Inspires•Counsels•Guides•Directs•Learns•Brings to the goal•Intercedes
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Whole Work Cycle
•Deliver• Convert • Make• Express• Transform• Restore• Measure• Work• Participate• Do
• Learn•Confirm •Energise• Inspire• Counsel• Advise• Guide• Mediate• Intercede• Direct• Teach• Check• Evaluate
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LearnDeliver
Plan
Significant Event
• Plan - Conceive – Originate - Create - Sustain - Set goals - Define Ethics
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The Creative Cycle?
‘For the writer the Idea (Father) is equated with having the idea
for a book, or the book as a thought; the Energy (Son) is the
incarnation of that idea in the words or as the book is written;
and the Power (Holy Spirit) is the communication of the image
in power or the book as read.’
Dorothy L. Sayers, ‘Mind of the Maker’
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