Freedom at Work

10/04/2019

Registrations are open for the next Art of Hosting Training in Belgium!
The calling question is: How can we liberate individual creative energy in service of organisational purpose?
We have a long list of interested people, so if you want to be part of this training, I encourage you not to wait, but register soon!

[English below] Herken je dit: jouw organisatie heeft een duidelijk en zinvol doel en de mensen waar je mee samen werkt werken echt hard, maar het lijkt de organisatie niet dichter bij haar doel te brengen? Hoe kunnen we individuele creatieve energie bevrijden ten dienste van het doel van de organis...

04/12/2017

For CEO's and senior managers:
A unique opportunity to learn and be mentored by the visionary leader of a big company on how to adopt a modern management approach based on self-organization and freedom, to achieve unparalleled employee engagement, creativity & growth - in an environment that is ever more complex and ambiguous.
If you have an inkling that that the “old school” management is on it’s way out, you will get all your questions answered, and you will get all the tools and the support you need to create a gentle but radical shift in your company towards engagement, creativity and innovation.
Here is the invitation: https://goo.gl/m1bXVV

15/11/2017

Here is an opportunity (with little backstory):

One of my clients, the CEO of a regional branch of a big multinational has taken his company pretty far on the journey into the new paradigm of organisational development: freedom based / self-organized / next stage / teal.

No mean feat given the region (Eastern Europe), the industry (retail), the size of his company (17000 people) and the very conservative organisational culture that he inherited only a few years back. He now wants to give back to the field, so we will host together a workshop to support other leaders who want to do the same (but haven't quite worked through their fears & questions).

A big part of this workshop will be his individual&group mentoring of the participants. Another pillar will be the "how to" actually do this work. The mentoring relationship, if needed will continue after the workshop.

This offer is directed towards CEO's and their shareholders/owners primarily.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53a7d5e1e4b0488fb14f7658/t/5a040630652deabdd31f0d10/1510213169530/workshop+invitation.pdf

21/07/2017

Beautiful article on self-organisation in the European Commission.

I met Bernd Reichert at a training I offered in Brussels on Self-management. During introductions everyone was surprised that we had…

08/05/2017

Dear Friends,

We are inviting you to a series of workshops we are co-hosting with others in Europe - sharing one approach towards more human and healthy organisations. They are in Prague (Czech republic), Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and Vienna (Austria) in May and June. Please take a look and share this with whoever you feel could benefit.
https://selforganisation.works

How can you ignite passion and sustainable commitment in your organisation? Join us for a two-day workshop to learn, be inspired and co-create the next bold steps for your organisation.

07/05/2017

"The CEO's Playbook" is FREE on amazon (the ebook) for the next 3 days!
My new publisher will more than double the price later this month (as the release of the paper back is approaching), so I decided to give it away for some days, just before that happens.
Also, If you know anybody who could benefit, please help me spread the word. http://a.co/dJfLW9c

You love your work and your company, but don’t know what else to do to get your employees to love it, too. They are good people, you know that, but your dream is to be brilliant together. Dedication, passion, joy at work… are these too much to ask for?They’re not!In The CEO

13/04/2017

New webinar next week:
Virtual teams... they don't have to be second best, they have special superpowers. And special vulnerabilties. How to bring the best out in a virtual team? Join Gertraud and me to explore!
https://app.webinarjam.net/register/36312/ad81a9e110

Learn how to bring the best with your virtual team!

31/03/2017

I am so excited to put this out into the world: Ladies an Gentleman please welcome the Campfire Cooperative!
It has the mission to bring the new ways of working together to many people, organizations and companies around the world that need them.
Also, it is a platform for professionals and apprentices of this work to come together and exchange, learn from each other and create new and exciting offers that they can bring to the world - better, bolder an stronger together.
I am together in this new venture with wonderful mates (from Australia): Mel Geltch, Moze Crozier, Renee Black and David Newell. We hope some of you will also feel invited to join!
www.campfire.coop

Self-organising entrepreneurs, hosts and guides in new organisational forms and participatory leadership. Creating an organisation for the future Campfire Co-op

29/03/2017

If you are interested, but missed, any of my last webinars, check them out on my YouTube channel!

Webinars and other interesting material related engagement and the new world of work.

17/03/2017

Creating Safe Space:

Psychological safety is the most important success factor for a team... or any group of people working together.
Join Getraud Wegst and me on our upcoming webinar (23 March, 10 am CET), where we share our strategies and practices of creating safe space for co-creation and adventure (at work!).

If you are interested in the topic, but you cannot make the live event, please register and you will get the recording, to listen in your own time.

https://app.webinarjam.net/register/36312/54b0bb1dde

How to create magic at work combining safety and freedom.

07/03/2017

I found the perfect description of bureaucracy, and administrative controls in dr. Seuss:

"Oh, the jobs people work at!
Out west near Hawtch-Hawtch
there’s a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher.
His job is to watch…
is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee.
A bee that is watched will work harder, you see.

Well… he watched and he watched.
But, in spite of his watch,
that bee didn’t work any harder. Not mawtch.

So then somebody said,
“Our old bee-watching man
just isn’t bee-watching as hard as he can.
He ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher!
The thing that we need
is a Bee-Watcher-Watcher!”

Well…

The Bee-Watcher-Watcher watched the Bee-Watcher.
He didn’t watch well. So another Hawtch-Hawtcher
had to come in as a Watch-Watcher-Watcher!
And today all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch
are watching on Watch-Watcher-Watchering-Watch,
Watch-Watching the Watcher who’s watching that bee.
You’re not a Hawtch-Watcher. You’re lucky, you see!”

― Dr. Seuss, Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

05/03/2017

You might have heard that Zappos has been struggling with a highly publicized move towards a “bossless”, self-management structure for…