Recently I had the opportunity to co-create, host and facilitate the annual workshop of Accountable Now. We used many of the approaches that we have developed through the Testing Change project as the farming for the workshop. The approaches we used included:
Change needs personal and organizational accountability and structure.
The broad theme of the workshop was rebuilding as we go through this disruptive pandemic period, and specifically to focus on inclusion; equity and power shifting; and resilience.
It is hard to believe we are already at the end of the decade (and that I’ve been blogging for a decade!) but here we are 🙂 For my end of the year (decade) post I’m sharing some of my blog posts that have been the most popular this decade. If you missed some of these, I hope they can be useful to you now. Happy Reading and Happy Holidays!
First blog post: How Relevant is Global Thinking? (2010) Hint: It’s only gotten more relevant over the decade 🙂
What Makes Someone Inspirational (2010) – my most popular blog post …
Upswell
is a convening organized by the national organization Independent
Sector to bring
together those working towards change in the social sector in the US. The
following are a few themes and tips I took from participating in this convening
recently:
For our
organizations:
To get different results we need to do things differently. One practical way of doing that is to get out of our own bubbles and traditional networks for hiring new members to our teams and seeking new partners.
We can get very distracted by innovation. Holding up and strengthening good efforts that are already happening can
I’ve been leading an initiative that’s now going into its sixth year and have thus been thinking about some of our learning around long term change. Long term change for organizations and society does not come quickly and takes a lot of on-going commitment through the inevitable ups and downs. Here are some of things we’ve been learning as we head into our sixth year:
Leadership commitment – Organizations and networks that have been most successful with making significant changes, and most importantly increasing their impact due to these changes, understand that it is, and plan for it to be,
