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What Questions Kept You Going In 2017?
December 2017
Every year offers critical leadership experiences: rewarding, exciting, uncomfortable and challenging.
What if we could make learning out of them in a form of Questions rather than Answers?
What key questions kept you, your team, your organization going in 2017?
These were my key questions for 2017
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Every year offers critical leadership experiences: rewarding, exciting, uncomfortable and challenging.
What if we could make learning out of them in a form of Questions rather than Answers?
What key questions kept you, your team, your organization going in 2017?
These were my key questions for 2017
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How do Functional challenges play out in Government Organizations?
October 2017
Over the past years through my work on team collaboration, I have been fascinated by the team dynamics that occur when the leadership team of a Corporate Function (i.e. Legal, IT, HR, Finance) comes together. Central to such dynamics is to understand how the pressure to deliver value to the end customer and to play a vital role in the company's value chain, creates challenges in collaboration. But what about governmental organizations? Is the pressure to add value challenging only for private sector corporations?
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Over the past years through my work on team collaboration, I have been fascinated by the team dynamics that occur when the leadership team of a Corporate Function (i.e. Legal, IT, HR, Finance) comes together. Central to such dynamics is to understand how the pressure to deliver value to the end customer and to play a vital role in the company's value chain, creates challenges in collaboration. But what about governmental organizations? Is the pressure to add value challenging only for private sector corporations?
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Are you in or out? And the seduction of office politics.
August 2017
Leaders may recognize that to some extend they have to exercise informal influencing and to deal with politics, in order to be effective in their roles. But the challenges they bring up are way too often emotionally charged. Distress and intense organizational dynamics around them blur them from exploring strategic options and instead provoke more instinctive reactions.
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Leaders may recognize that to some extend they have to exercise informal influencing and to deal with politics, in order to be effective in their roles. But the challenges they bring up are way too often emotionally charged. Distress and intense organizational dynamics around them blur them from exploring strategic options and instead provoke more instinctive reactions.
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Help me sell or we both die. Paper presentation on the dynamics of corporate functions.
December 2016
What group dynamics can we expect when a Functional team comes together? What could these dynamics reveal about the position of the Function and about the challenges the functional members face in their business partnering role? Petros Oratis has designed the 6 Team Dynamics of Functions as a simple method of Functional teams to talk about those challenges and to think of new solutions. He presented it at the annual international OPUS Conference for Organisational & Social Dynamics on November 2016 in London.
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What group dynamics can we expect when a Functional team comes together? What could these dynamics reveal about the position of the Function and about the challenges the functional members face in their business partnering role? Petros Oratis has designed the 6 Team Dynamics of Functions as a simple method of Functional teams to talk about those challenges and to think of new solutions. He presented it at the annual international OPUS Conference for Organisational & Social Dynamics on November 2016 in London.
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Defence or transition? The continuum away from or towards bold steps.
April 2016
It is the work of leadership to remove defensive steps. And yet sometimes the very same steps that appear as avoidance, may prove to actually be transitional steps. Their function, is to move, rather, the organization gradually forward. If the stakes are (or perceived to be) high, the ground is not yet fertile and bold steps are premature.
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It is the work of leadership to remove defensive steps. And yet sometimes the very same steps that appear as avoidance, may prove to actually be transitional steps. Their function, is to move, rather, the organization gradually forward. If the stakes are (or perceived to be) high, the ground is not yet fertile and bold steps are premature.
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Vertigo on the pedestal: Leaders stuck between being heroes and anti-heroes.
January 2016
Have you ever found yourself appointed to an unrealistic assignment, expected to carry it out as a leader, without the organization being geared-up for success? Very often leaders recognise that the conditions for success are not in place, yet they feel inhibited to address them due to the fear of failure.
Leaders, when put on the pedestal with expectations of them of heroic proportions and with unrealistic conditions in place, are faced with a crucial dilemma. The scenario of not fulfilling these expectations, feels as shameful as the act of the anti-hero Thomas. This is what we call vertigo on the pedestal.
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Have you ever found yourself appointed to an unrealistic assignment, expected to carry it out as a leader, without the organization being geared-up for success? Very often leaders recognise that the conditions for success are not in place, yet they feel inhibited to address them due to the fear of failure.
Leaders, when put on the pedestal with expectations of them of heroic proportions and with unrealistic conditions in place, are faced with a crucial dilemma. The scenario of not fulfilling these expectations, feels as shameful as the act of the anti-hero Thomas. This is what we call vertigo on the pedestal.
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How your Corporate Function's team dynamics impact your success as a Business Partner.
December 2015
Here are the most common types of dynamics of a functional team, their potential root-cases and how to enable business partnering success through team effectiveness. When reading this, reflect on your own functional team and ask yourself which team do we become and when, whilst remembering that dynamics are fluid, may change over time and even constantly within minutes. The most frequent and predominant team behavior can be the best indicator of where to focus on.
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Here are the most common types of dynamics of a functional team, their potential root-cases and how to enable business partnering success through team effectiveness. When reading this, reflect on your own functional team and ask yourself which team do we become and when, whilst remembering that dynamics are fluid, may change over time and even constantly within minutes. The most frequent and predominant team behavior can be the best indicator of where to focus on.
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Beyond festivities and champagne: Celebration is an { in between space } of development
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December 2015
Many are sceptical about Year End rituals and New Year's Resolutions because those alone don't lead to change or they are solely wishful thinking. Yet there is a function of the reflections, rituals and exchanges that happen during this {in between space} as all of these gives us a unique opportunity to look back from a distance, and in such way that we can convert our 2015 experiences into a fertile ground for creation and development in 2016. Taking distance from daily life and the organizational dynamics, It is the time to reflect on tough experiences so that we take the learning and move on, to understand what led us to success and to allow to DREAM BIG before we get back to daily reality. Ready more => |