Lisa Gill (she/her)

On becoming bilingual The growing pains of learning new ways of working (or Spanish!)

Here are my reflections on some of my painful learning moments while preparing to lead workshops in Spanish, and what becoming bilingual can teach us about practising new ways of working:

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Like learning a new language, learning how to collaborate in a self-managing team requires us to be a beginner. Many times we might want to revert back to our native language of hierarchy, where we feel capable and confident. Becoming fluent in new ways of working takes commitment and practice.

Self-Management Pioneers Series: The Morning Star Company Excerpted from the book BEYOND EMPOWERMENT: THE AGE OF THE SELF-MANAGED ORGANIZATION, by Doug Kirkpatrick, JetLaunch, 2017

Totally.

A great example: the wildly successful Morning Star that has always operated on two principles:

1) individuals should not exercise the use of force against other people (or the property of other people)

2) individuals should honour their commitments to others.

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From Politeness to Partnership: Embracing Conflict Drives Effective… Many organisations I’ve come across tend to save one area for last while exploring new ways of working: conflict engagement. You could compare this…

Someone told me recently they regularly refer back to this article I wrote last year in work meetings.

But where it had the most impact was actually in coaching their 18 y/o son's football team.

To get to high performance, we have to go THROUGH conflicts.

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“We are projects of collective self-creation. What if we approached human history that way? What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?” ― David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

I know I'm late to the party but I'm really enjoying reading 'The Dawn of Everything'...

YouTube video by Helen Sanderson Helen Sanderson of Wellbeing Teams on Selection

Whenever she's told me about it, it sounds really cool and definitely in line with recruiting 'architect' types.

Found this video where she talks a bit about what they did in Wellbeing Teams re: recruitment e.g. One Page Profiles, inviting people to a day's workshop etc: youtu.be/jwKlxi-p3rY

Finally read this. Great stuff! That school study is quite mind blowing & thinking of the potential if we had more 'architect' leaders in the NHS... wow.

In terms of recruiting them, Helen Sanderson has an amazing recruitment process for that they used in Wellbeing Teams. (Award-winning, in fact!)

Love this.

Also reminds me of another good quote I learned from a Swede:

“Power is like fertiliser – in concentrated form it’s suffocating,
but when distributed it contributes to growth.”
– Mats Birgersson, former CEO of Fresh

Ok, I did :) go.bsky.app/6GJ5Eyk

Still trying to find who's on here (Sky Bridge only helps me so much) so will keep adding to this starter pack.

Let me know if I've missed anyone that you know of!

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#newwaysofworking #futureofwork #selfmanagingorgs #organizationdesign #selforganization

Sorry, I'm a Bsky newbie - I realise what you mean by 'starterpack' now. @matthewmezey.bsky.social also asked if I would make one :)

I need a bit more time to find everyone, I think!

Oh yay! How fun. Good question. Where do YOU think would be a good place/forum for conversation about episodes? There are comments options on the podcast site etc. but that tends not to be a dialogue, I guess.

Re: starter pack, I've been working on this for a while bossless.info - launching soon 🤞

A preview of the blog "Hazards on the path to organisational self-management: pitfalls to watch out for when exploring new ways of working" by Lisa Gill. The image is a deck of tarot cards with names like 'Canyon of Consensus', 'Whirlpool of dynamics', and 'Green trap'.

My latest blog about patterns I've noticed over the last eight years of organisations exploring self-managing teams.

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#futureofwork #newwaysofworking #reinventingorganizations #selforganization

I didn't but I'll have a look, thanks!

Felt good to deactivate my account on the dead bird site, I must say.

Let's see what's on offer here!

I'll be posting about new ways of working, self-managing organisations, and other nerdy/fun stuff.