The biggest challenge to lockdown is cultural
Boris Johnson’s decision last night to put England in Lockdown was less a surprise and more a confirmation that he is once again behind the…
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The Twenty-Twenties – A Roar or a Whimper?
As we gear up to see in the New Year there will be plenty of people who will be glad to see the back of…
Fortitude – darkest before the dawn
As the days get darker and winter deepens I look forward to the 21st December because I know once the winter solstice has passed we…
Case Study – Thinking about the workplace of the future
The 4iforum thinking masterclass is a dialogic session designed to get leadership to go beyond their immediate business reality and disrupt the status quo. The…
The missing risks – how business resiliency plans need to change
As I was putting together a new workshop on a Business Resiliency Design, something startling began to dawn on me.I was looking at a fairly…
Storytelling – Engaging stakeholders in change efforts
Story telling is deserving of some focus in this expert insight, because it is a central aspect of engaging stakeholder in change efforts. As long…
Appreciative Inquiry in practice
The 4D approach in AI (Stavros and Cooperrider, 2003) refers to the four parts of the AI cycle Discovery: Identifying those moments in the past…
Appreciative Inquiry – A Positive Approach to Change
AI is not a new technique in the field of organization development (OD) having been introduced in a seminal article by Cooperrider and Srivastva in…
Insights – Symposium December 2020
2020 continues to present challenges and opportunities, and workplace outcomes will be decided by multiple factors. Leaders need to embrace the unknown and develop new…
Combat stress by building emotional resilience
In these incredibly challenging times, it is easy to become stressed and not notice the affect it is having on you, and those around you.…