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 …
Global Maturity: An Organizational Framework to Succeed Globally
Written on November 12, 2019 at 8:02 am
Last week I participated in a discussion around some of the success factors for how organizations can engage and grow more effectively internationally. We reviewed a report entitled Association Global Maturity: Critical Actions for Successful International Growth and especially seven areas that it laid out:
I.
Strategic and
business planning
II. Management and organizational culture
III. Leadership engagement
IV. Market insight
V. Value proposition and engagement model
VI. Global organization, roles, and support
VII. Local operations and service delivery
capacity
The group
shared some experiences with those categories they found particularly
challenging with some suggestions of how to address these …
One of the fun parts of being more ‘senior’ in one’s career is having the opportunity to share ‘lessons learned’ over the years. I had the opportunity to participate in one such session in August – blog post here – and another earlier this month. Here are a few of the lessons shared from this latest session:
The ‘why’ is always the most important – why are you undertaking this effort? Form (tactics – what will you do and how will you do it?) should follow function (what is it you’re trying to accomplish?). I’ve often called it the Journalism
If your organization is expanding its international reach, taking time for doing the due diligence to explore and understand new environments is crucial. First steps to take include clearly articulating with your board and senior leadership why you want to engage with a particular country or region and what you are trying to accomplish. Once the answer to these questions are clear, developing a criteria for identifying or determining if a particular area of the world is aligned with your goals is an important next step.
There is a range of steps you can take to conduct your due diligence …
