Module 10: Emergent Process

Read Chapter 10 & 11

​Module 10 Workbook

HBR Article:
​4 Ways To Create A Learning Culture In Your Team
 
In this module we will focus on:
  • How to build a learning culture at work
  • Finding language that helps us to grow
  • Asking “How can we create a culture where we learn from mistakes so that employees can exceed expectations?”
  • Learning how to lead the emergent process
  • A synopsis of the assessments and practices used throughout this course
  • The best advice from our featured influencers
  • Resources to draw on as you continue to create a better place to work!

​Take some time now to read the HBR article on how to create a learning culture. Make some notes in your workbook about ways to create a learning environment (from this paper and from Chapter 10).

Modeling A Learning Mindset
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Move to your workbook now and work through the team practice on developing transformational questions for a team challenge you are having.

Introduction to Organizational Learning 

Take a moment to watch this short video from Peter Senge:


​Leading Emergence

Here’s an exercise I use to lead the emergent process with groups:

How can you use the idea of leading emergence in your work over the next week?

Who Can I Be?


​Move to your workbook now and take 10-15 minutes to do some focused writing on “Who can I be that my employees’ eyes shine?”  

PRACTICES

Personal:
  • Learning to lead emergence
  • Modelling a learning mindset (see team practice below)
  • Learning to challenge your mental models as a leader
  • Question: “Who can I be that my employee’s eyes shine?” – (Daily practice/Focused writing)
 
Team:
  • Facilitate a discussion with your team on a current challenge, modelling a learning mindset, by starting with what is going right and then developing transformational questions for the group; practice leading emergence and give the team an opportunity to experience this kind of learning.
  • Developing team language (with your team) that helps the team grow and continue to learn
 
Organizational:
  • Teach leaders in your organization how to lead the emergent process (see p 212 in the book).

Synthesis of Practices and Best Advice & Tools 

This final video overviews some of the practices we have worked through in the course and provides you with some final thoughts.

I want to thank you so much for joining me in this course. I hope that you have enjoyed our time together, and that what you have learned along the way can be implemented within your teams, and that you will see (and feel!) the impact that these daily practices can make within your organization. 

If you would like to join me for another course in the future, please consider Conversations Worth Having. As a participant of this Leading A Better Place To Work course you will receive a significant discount when you register for Conversations Worth Having (please contact us for the discount code). The CWH course is offered at least once a year, and focuses on four conversation practices that can continue to positively shift relationships and cultures within the workplace. You'll hear about when these workshops are by following me on Social Media, or by receiving my monthly newsletter with upcoming events. 

I always love to hear about the journeys that people take within their organizations, and the ways in which they have seen positive growth over time. Please keep in touch, share your stories of positive deviance, and remember to fan those flames!


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