{"id":33514,"date":"2018-12-09T13:55:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T21:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=33514"},"modified":"2018-12-09T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T21:56:19","slug":"renewal-and-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/about-gov\/education\/renewal-and-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewal and Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.18.1&#8243; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/renew1.jpg&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;84px|0px|140px|0px&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.18.1&#8243; text_font=&#8221;PT Sans||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;72&#8243; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;52&#8243; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.1em&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; max_width=&#8221;620px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px||0px|&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Renewal and Transformation<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|0px|24.625px|0px&#8221;][et_pb_row use_custom_width=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_width_px=&#8221;1200px&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;20px||0px|&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;0px|||&#8221; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_2=&#8221;off&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/david-ivers.png&#8221; show_bottom_space=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; disabled_on=&#8221;on|on|&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.74&#8243; animation=&#8221;off&#8221; sticky=&#8221;on&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text disabled_on=&#8221;on|on|&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.62&#8243; text_font=&#8221;PT Sans|on|||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#02b875&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;20&#8243; text_line_height=&#8221;1.2em&#8221; header_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; max_width=&#8221;140px&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;20px||0px|&#8221;]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/author\/davidi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">DAVID IVERS<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=&#8221;on|on|&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.62&#8243; text_font=&#8221;PT Serif||on||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#363636&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;16&#8243; text_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; max_width=&#8221;140px&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;10px||60px|&#8221;]David Ivers is from Sydney, Australia. He is a qualified Primary and Secondary School Teacher. In total, he has served on school leadership teams for 16 years in senior leadership roles.<br \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.18.1&#8243; text_font=&#8221;PT Serif||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#363636&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;24&#8243; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.5em&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; max_width=&#8221;720px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px||0px|&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For last year&#8217;s words belong to last year&#8217;s language <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And next year&#8217;s words await another voice.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T.S. Eliot (1942) \u2018<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/itc\/history\/winter\/w3206\/edit\/tseliotlittlegidding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little Gidding\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every December brings with it a certain amount of joy, exuberance and happiness. Every New Year brings with it a renewed sense of optimism, hopefulness and most likely a heightened sense of prosperity for the year ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S. Elliot writing his great masterpiece \u2018Little Gidding\u2019 did so in 1942, in the midst of air raids over England during World War II. His search is for perspective within his time, raising questions about humanity and the need for renewal. It is a classic piece of literature that brings into sharp relief, the very questions that we should be asking, not just at the end of each year but rather at the end of each day. These can be as simple as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What did I do today? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are 3 things I achieved today? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Note: What you did and achieved can be different)<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is 1 thing I could have done better? How?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the context of an organization, it is important to think of organizations, including Government agencies, as being organic. That is to say, they have their own pulse, their own way of speaking, their own culture, their own way of listening, their own code of ethics, simply their own way of being. In this context, there is such a thing as \u2018organizational health\u2019 and just like every human on the planet, it is near impossible to always be healthy, all of the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organic view of organizations, of course, raises several questions. For example, how are new ideas surfaced and ventilated within the organization? How do junior members of staff find a voice within the organization? How does the organization stand for the values that it espouses and voice those concerns publicly, when necessity requires it? These are essential questions for leadership to reflect on and respond to, especially in policy settings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the context of a Government agency, renewal of the organization is somewhat complex, as it will inevitably involve the input and agreement of elected officials responsible for that agency. It is not uncommon for Government agencies to experience change paraded as \u2018renewal\u2019 after an election and change of Government. Typically, the \u2018renewal\u2019 is more political than structural.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nonetheless, the renewal of any Government agency should typically begin at the top, with what might be called the \u2018Leadership Group\u2019 or \u2018Board\u2019. The Australian Institute of Company Directors notes that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll boards need periodic renewal to avoid entrenched positioning and to ensure fresh thinking. Structurally, this can be achieved by defining specific terms of office in the organization\u2019s constitution so directors retire in a predictable and regular manner, or by simply having a board policy on director retirement.\u201d Australian Institute of Company Directors. (2017). Achieving Board Effectiveness (Module 9) from \u2018The Company Directors\u2019 Course\u2019. Sydney. Australian Institute of Company Directors. p. 47.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.74&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#f7f7f4&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px|&#8221;][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_width_px=&#8221;680px&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;on&#8221; gutter_width=&#8221;1&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px|&#8221; make_equal=&#8221;on&#8221; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_2=&#8221;#efefe9&#8243; parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_2=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/renew2.jpg&#8221; show_bottom_space=&#8221;off&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.18.1&#8243; animation=&#8221;off&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#efefe9&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/renew.png&#8221; show_bottom_space=&#8221;off&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.18.1&#8243; animation=&#8221;off&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text disabled_on=&#8221;off|off|&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.18.1&#8243; text_font=&#8221;PT Serif||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#818178&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;24&#8243; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;20%|10%||10%&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;|10%||10%&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change is a constant but renewal is the critical challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.62&#8243; text_font=&#8221;PT Sans|on|||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#888888&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12&#8243; text_letter_spacing=&#8221;2px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.2em&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;20px||20%|&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;20px|||&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221;]DAVID IVERS<br \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px|&#8221;][et_pb_row use_custom_width=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_width_px=&#8221;1200px&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;on&#8221; gutter_width=&#8221;4&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;0px|||&#8221; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_2=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_3=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_4=&#8221;off&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.18.1&#8243; text_font=&#8221;PT Serif||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#363636&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;20&#8243; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||0px|&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;40px||0px|&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One way of achieving this is to look at what the objectives are for the organization and to undertake an evaluation of the \u2018Board\u2019 and its effectiveness to the organization. Whilst a Board must undertake its Governance duties with propriety, it should also be adding value to the organization in general. The same is true of other key positions in the organization as well. Indeed, Harvard Business School Professors Michael Tushman and Charles O&#8217;Reilly as long ago as 1999 noted:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo avoid the cyclical trap of success-failure-rebirth, firms need to develop competency in simultaneously sustaining a dual management focus; one that concentrates on meeting the challenges of today&#8217;s marketplace, another with its eye firmly set on a very different world that lies beyond the bend.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Tushman. M., O\u2019Reilly. C. (1999). \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/leading-change-and-organizational-renewal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading Change and Organizational Renewal\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge (16 November 1999). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around the same time (in 1998), David Ivers, drawing on the notion of Entropy found in the Second Law of Thermodynamics in Physics, also made a connection to this need for a renewal that goes beyond the cycle of success-failure-rebirth, to the organization\u2019s search for meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf the designated leaders within an organization, do not take the time, the effort or the energy to draw meaning from the abyss of complexity that intertwines itself throughout the organization, if they do not build an organization that is capable of finding meaning, sometimes in the ethereal dimensions of the same organization, then the manager has not only lost sight of the organization\u2019s vision and prime function, but has also lost sight of the purpose of management itself. If nomos is to be sought and found, then the organization must periodically check its continual search for meaning.\u201d (Ivers, D. (1998). <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/jJ0RYq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing From The Edge, Working From The Centre: Organisations, Complexity And The Search For Meaning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would add in 2018, that they will also have lost sight of the purpose and value of leadership in general, to the organization. Change is a constant but renewal is the critical challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How does a leader go about the process of renewal? Typically, renewal takes time and planning. It simply doesn\u2019t just happen!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Australian Institute of Company Directors, quoting the work of Kiel, Nicholson and Barclay 2005, suggest that any Board evaluation should answer the following questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are our objectives?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who will be evaluated?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What will be evaluated?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who will be asked?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What techniques will be used?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who will do the evaluation?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What will you do with the results?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Kiel, G., Nicholson, G., and Barclay, M. (2005). Board, Director and CEO Evaluation,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sydney, McGraw-Hill)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, what needs to be kept in mind is that organizations are comprised of humans. The one thing about humans is that at times they can be annoyingly human! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizational renewal and transformation must, therefore, involve personal \/ employee transformation and renewal. According to Cultural Anthropologist Rev.Dr. Gerard Arbuckle SM (1988. pp 57-61), one of the important aspects of organizational renewal is honoring the \u2018prophets\u2019 that are in our midst. Writing about the renewal of religious orders in Christianity, Arbuckle sees the \u2018prophet\u2019 as having an important role in the process of renewal. Fundamentally the purpose of the \u2018prophet\u2019 is to keep the vision that we are striving to achieve uppermost in our minds. They criticize when needed, the people for creating the gap between the vision and the lived reality. At the same time, they know how to energize the people within an organization, so that the collective might one day close the gap between the vision and the ongoing reality. In Christian Theology, \u2018prophets\u2019 are not seen as \u2018soothsayers\u2019 or people who can \u2018see the future\u2019. Rather the \u2018prophet\u2019 is someone who can read the signs of the times, interpret them and guide people accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Arbuckle, the \u2018prophet\u2019 has a special role within the organization. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Memory: They are the creative, dynamic and questioning memory of the organization.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Creative Imagination and Listening: The \u2018prophet\u2019 rejects the distorted culture in which they live (and work), for they measure it against the vision they know can and should be realized.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Community-Oriented: \u2018Prophets\u2019 are not loners, even if they are marginalized by the people for whom they work. They call people to a deeper sense of community and belonging.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> People of Faith, Love and Prayer: The faith, love and extraordinary courage of the \u2018prophet\u2019 is sustained and constantly nourished through their listening and talking. Arbuckle sees them as having a richer Inner-Life which gives them the ability to lead outwardly.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Patient in Hardwork, Marginalization, and Suffering: The \u2018prophets\u2019 work very hard, are often marginalized because their message (closing the gap between the vision and the reality) is not acceptable to a people enthusiastically subscribing to a set values that may be in competition with the values needed to support the vision espoused.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Paraphrased from Arbuckle, G. (1988). Out of Chaos. New York. Paulist Press. pp. 57-61)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though Arbuckle is writing in the context of renewing Christian religious orders, in an organizational context, his notion of honoring the \u2018prophets\u2019 that exist in each organization is very important and often overlooked in some change management practices and organizational renewal programs. It means our leaders need to evolve a \u2018prophetic nature\u2019 to their leadership. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> T.S. Elliot summarised all of this when he wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We shall not cease from exploration<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the end of all our exploring\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will be to arrive where we started\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And know the place for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> T.S. Eliot (1942) \u2018<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/itc\/history\/winter\/w3206\/edit\/tseliotlittlegidding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little Gidding\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the twenty-first century organization, be it a Government agency or a Stock Exchange listed company, \u2018Adaptive Leadership\u2019 usually requires the leader to work both on themselves (including their Inner-Life), as well as their team, in order to be effective outwardly to the rest of the organization and to the customers and clients that the organization seeks to serve. This is often taught in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gse.harvard.edu\/ppe\/program\/certificate-school-management-and-leadership-leading-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professional Programs of Education in Leadership conducted by Harvard Graduate School of Education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to bring about the personal transformation, individually and within team members, it is important to identify where each person\u2019s \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.extension.harvard.edu\/inside-extension\/surprising-reason-we-dont-keep-our-resolutions-how-overcome-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Immunity to Change<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 can be found. In their ground-breaking work \u2018Immunity to Change\u2019, lecturers from Harvard Graduate School of Education, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gse.harvard.edu\/faculty\/robert-kegan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Robert Kegan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gse.harvard.edu\/faculty\/lisa-lahey)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr Lisa Laskow Lahey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> give insights as to how this might be achieved collectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What is the \u2018collective commitment\u2019 to be achieved?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What are we \u2018doing or not doing instead\u2019?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What is the \u2018collective hidden competing commitment\u2019? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What \u2018collective big assumptions\u2019 are we making?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(See Kegan, R., Lahey, L. (2009). Immunity to Change. Boston. Harvard Business Press. p, 97)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the collective answers these questions in detail, it should reveal what you are trying to achieve, what the obvious and hidden blockages are and whether your big assumptions are preventing the team\/organization from seeing a different picture. Those big assumptions must be tested to ascertain the veracity of the truth behind those \u2018big assumptions\u2019 and whether or not they are in fact part of the problem or the solution. This should be then fed into policy settings and lead to necessary adjustments within the policies and procedures of the organization. It means bringing the words of documents such as policies, strategic plans, vision and mission statements, to life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Renewal is meant to be a constant, not a one-off event. To transform personally and organizationally, is for the individual and the collective, to work together, in a unified commitment of continuous improvement, not yearly but rather daily. This adds value and enriches both the organization and the individual but more importantly empowers the creative tension that will always exist between the organization and the individual, the gap between reality and the vision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/itc\/history\/winter\/w3206\/edit\/tseliotlittlegidding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As T. S. Elliot wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What we call the beginning is often the end<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And to make and end is to make a beginning.<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The end is where we start from. And every phrase\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And sentence that is right (where every word is at home,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking its place to support the others,<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An easy commerce of the old and the new,<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The common word exact without vulgarity,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The formal word precise but not pedantic,<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The complete consort dancing together)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T.S. 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